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The fact that an article like this get written in all seriousness is simply amazing. They're approaching "chickens with their heads cut off running around randomly" levels now. And I'd bet it has no effect, not even with the LA Times.
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-yellin-trump-media-solipsism-20170707-story.html
Journalists need to stop taking Trump's bait



Opinion Op-Ed
Op-Ed
Journalists need to stop taking Trump's bait
President Trump has taken office, reporting in the public interest has seen an encouraging resurgence. There is a renewed sense of purpose among reporters covering the White House and a renaissance in investigative journalism. All this should help burnish the media’s tarnished credibility.

But this good work is competing with a less admirable trend. The media have a bad habit of turning themselves into the story. And their tendency toward solipsism is as unbecoming as the president’s thin-skinned narcissism.

Often the president uses his Twitter account to insult journalists. In February he called the “FAKE NEWS media” the “enemy of the American People.” Recently this sniping has turned into a full scale assault: Trump slandered MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski and celebrated violence against CNN — my former employer — by spreading a crude, doctored WWE video of the president body-slamming an embodied CNN logo.

These tweets are dishonest, sexist and disturbing. They violate traditional standards of respectability and show deep contempt for the free press. CNN’s senior media correspondent, Brian Stelter, has argued that the president aims to “tear down outlets that dare challenge him.”

doxx” the Reddit user, sparking an intense Twitter pile-on by the president’s online fans. CNN — originally the victim in this story — found itself on the defensive as newspapers around the country ran articles about journalistic ethics rather than the president’s outrageous behavior.

The fact that the media can’t win these fights isn’t the only reason to resist the impulse to fire back; when the Fourth Estate stoops to the president’s level, important news goes un- or under-covered.

reportedly sent two new, secretly revised healthcare proposals to the Congressional Budget Office.

A new travel ban and changes to healthcare are consequential stories. But when viewers tuned in to cable news and Sunday shows, they were treated to heaping doses of media self-indignation at Trump’s slights.

During these convulsions of self-reflective coverage, the media appear to be more concerned with their own interests than the interests of the American public. That undermines their relevance to news consumers and feeds the unfortunate perception that the D.C. press is a self-interested elite.

Survey Monkey poll, a majority of Americans disapprove of his use of Twitter. An NPR/Marist poll shows that more than 70% of Americans believe civility in Washington has declined since Trump took office.

News organizations should therefore be more judicious about how much exposure to afford his attacks.

Instead of giving top billing to outrageous anti-media tweets, news outlets should dedicate more airtime to reporting about the president’s executive orders, new standards at the Environmental Protection Agency, knee-capping of the State Department through understaffing, plans to slash student aid and food stamp assistance, efforts to radically alter our healthcare system, and instability in the Middle East and on the Korean peninsula.

In a Supreme Court decision establishing new organizations’ right to publish the Pentagon Papers during the Vietnam War, Justice Hugo Black wrote that “the press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of government and inform the public.” The media would do well to keep this standard in mind as they decide when and how to cover Trump.

Stop taking the president’s bait. It’s a losing proposition.

Jessica Yellin is former CNN Chief White House Correspondent and a senior fellow at USC’s Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership and Policy.


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So let me get this straight, the people who find offensive symbols in everything and have spent the last 20 years scrubbing the fun and humor out of everything from video games to children's cartoons until they become sterile piles of comforting non-judgmental platitudes that everyone is a sacred snowflake, those very people, honestly think they can win a meme battle?
 
They want to declare a war on memes! Make it a social issue like back when they accused Eminem of corrupting kids.

Dear God, they have no idea the kind of hornet's nest they're throwing rocks at.

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If the Pope had even a fraction of the power and prestige he did 50 years ago, I might care more about what he thinks. Too bad the Catholic church has repeatedly disgraced themselves and won't own up to it in that time.

And how is it dangerous for two nuclear equipped superstates to be on TALKING terms?
 
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