{"id":42884,"date":"2019-01-17T09:22:08","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T14:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42884"},"modified":"2019-01-17T09:22:08","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T14:22:08","slug":"media-to-trump-were-calling-the-shots-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42884","title":{"rendered":"Media To Trump: We\u2019re Calling The Shots Here"},"content":{"rendered":"

Media To Trump: We\u2019re Calling The Shots Here<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Won\u2019t they ever figure out that their own bias is what makes them ineffective?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A New York Times<\/em> columnist has made a bit of a splash in the elites\u2019 fetid swimming pool by proclaiming that his media brethren will not make the same mistakes with President Trump that they made in 2016. This open declaration of political bias<\/a> is, of course, yet another major mistake, but these people are so far gone in their delusions that there is no point even trying to explain that simple fact to them.<\/p>\n

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\u2026press is angry because their coverage of a major presidential candidate turned out to help him rather than harm him.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

Frank Bruni wrote a defiant piece<\/a> in which he vowed that the media won\u2019t \u201clet him set the terms of the 2020 presidential campaign.\u201d We all know who \u201chim\u201d is. This sounds like the remark of a petulant child unhappy that he doesn\u2019t get to run a playground game. But there is even more to be revealed by Bruni\u2019s sour grapes than just a determination to spite a president. He is indeed displaying the foremost media trait that turns off so many Americans: The assumption that they get to set the agenda \u2013 that they get to decide what is and isn\u2019t news. Instead of merely reporting as per their alleged job responsibilities, this elitist demands to be a player himself, and, it would seem, the starting quarterback.<\/p>\n

Fooling Themselves<\/h3>\n

Bruni is so warped by his own vitriol that he finds it offensive that major press outlets were forced to cover an Oval Office address to the nation given by a sitting president. \u201cWe had to weigh a request in line with precedent against a president out of line when it comes to truth,\u201d he obtusely writes.<\/p>\n

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Frank Bruni<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Media To Trump: We\u2019re Calling The Shots Here Won\u2019t they ever figure out that their own bias is what makes them ineffective? A New York Times columnist has made a bit of a splash in the elites\u2019 fetid swimming pool by proclaiming that his media brethren will not make the same mistakes with President Trump […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5243,7844,24012,23598,22913,512,5244,1921,655],"class_list":["post-42884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-bias","tag-donald-trump","tag-frank-bruni","tag-joe-schaeffer","tag-liberty-nation","tag-media","tag-media-bias","tag-new-york-times","tag-propaganda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42885,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42884\/revisions\/42885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}