We will not be bullied

Ref: Daily Press 8-19-2018 opinion “We will not be bullied”

Ref: 8-17-2018 opinion Williamsburg Gazette, author Peggy Bellows

The Boston Globe offered the national media an opportunity to join them in POTUS bashing. I offer this discourse.

Two weeks into Donald Trumps presidency, The New York Times ran an article detailing how President Donald Trump in his bathrobe, wandered the halls, looking for light switches. This is the first of many attacks by the media on a president that a left leaning industry full of self-righteous started their relationship with the winner of the 2016 election. Please explain to me what this type of attack had to do with reporting other than to bully or hurt someone?

Traditionally, respect for the highest office in the land encourage restraint in reporting gossip or paparazzi style fake news. Traditionally reporters would have been shunned to use unnamed sources and offer their own opinions. This new form of coverage makes President Trump the most unjustly treated President in recent history.

Example: You quoted Thomas Jefferson and yet you did not tell a complete story so let me help you tell your customers the truth where you fail. “Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. This was written when Thomas Jefferson was the U.S. Minister. During his Presidency, he became critical of the press for what he saw as the partisan nature of the press. I quote Thomas Jefferson “Nothing can not be believed which is seen in a newspaper.” This is a great example of how the media manipulates the truth; it is an example of your deceit.

You do perform a critical function of holding people accountable, but when you let your own agenda interfere with that function you become unreliable. The truth is you do not dig for the truth if, the truth does not fit the lefts narrative. Example: The POTUS offered balanced remarks on the Charlottesville race riots, when he commented on both sides at fault.  News media were quick to share pictures of illegal immigrant children in steel cages blaming the Trump administration, turns out those pictures were taken during the Obama reign. The media in its quest to offer a misrepresentation of what Trump has said and done is quite blatant in this writer’s opinion. One has to ask, does the media do this because of a mental disorder “trump derangement syndrome” to know that what they are saying is true or false, or are they simply lying? It doesn’t make much difference; the public’s trust of the media is at all-time lows of 32% and yet they double down with more deceit. The damage to the media’s credibility has been done and at their own hands.