I was going to publish something else this morning, but I came across this article in the Houston Chronicle. Of course, it’s not original reporting by the Hearst Corporation, now the largest cut & paste website operator in the nation.
But the real reason I posted this is the complete lack of shame in the vacuum of journalistic ethics regarding this piece, by the writers and their editors. Unsurprisingly, the NYT byline includes Maggie Haberman, a woman who seems to have been driven to the brink of psychotic breakdown by the mere existence of Donald Trump.
I have emboldened words and phrases that have no place in non-editorial reporting.
He raged at his staff for violating a rule that the White House entourage should begin each trip tuned to Fox — his preferred network over what he considers the “fake news” CNN — and caused “a bit of a stir” aboard Air Force One, according to an email obtained by The New York Times. The email, an internal exchange between officials in the White House Military Office and the White House Communications Agency last Thursday, also called for the ordering of two additional televisions to support Beam, a TiVo-like streaming device, to make sure the president and first lady could both watch TV in their separate hotel rooms when they travel.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the President leaked the email himself just to humiliate CNN.
The channel-flipping flap was the latest example of how Donald Trump, at a pivotal moment in his presidency, is increasingly living in a world of selected information and bending the truth to his own narrative. As his aides work to keep him insulated from the outside world, Trump is doubling down in his efforts to tell supporters to trust him over the words of critics and news reports.
and,
On Tuesday, the president effectively said black was white when he claimed without evidence that Russians would be helping Democrats — but not him — in the coming midterm elections.
and,
Over the weekend, Trump claimed with no evidence in a series of tweets that his administration’s release of top-secret documents related to the surveillance of a former campaign aide had confirmed that the Justice Department and the FBI “misled the courts” in the early stages of the Russia investigation.
Pathetic.
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