"In a democratic society the press must be accountable for stirring up hate"

In a democratic society the press must be accountable for stirring up hate
Different context, different nation, but rock solid wisdom. TD

Product of the genius of Rich Terrell

The Ruling Class Media and the Battle for 2020

CNN earns fake news label again with an assist from the WaPo  "The desperation of the anti-Trump media to defeat his re-election effort is leading them to sacrifice their credibility and peddle an obvious lie.  In a jaw-dropping moment yesterday on CNN's ironically named Reliable Sources program, Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell made a ludicrous claim: "The economy today is not substantially different from the economy before Trump took office."

"Don't believe me?"   Watch this video with Brian Stelter
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"I guess it takes a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Princeton University to be able to disregard reality to this extent.  Ms. Rampell apparently has forgotten that that before Trump took office, the "new normal" was economic growth lower than population growth (AKA stagnation), manufacturing jobs that would "never come back" and a growing gap between incomes of the well off and the lower paid.

"None of those is true.  In particular, the lower end of the income scale has prospered to an unprecedented degree:" . . .

Andy Puzder
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It’s all but impossible to look at this chart and conclude anything other than that ⁦@realDonaldTrump⁩ ‘s tax cuts have unequivocally benefitted working class Americans. It’s the kind of benefit that wins elections.

Countering CNN: Actor Pierce Brosnan Credits Trump on Economy, Jobs: 'Step in the Right Direction'  But then, the man is a Hollywood actor, so who can take him seriously?

"Merry Impeachmas" from the WaPo

This is where the media’s bowing and scraping to Democrats and their strategists warps our system. They’re not part of the checks and balances. They have no balance, and they never check the Democrats. The media paint everything Team Chuck & Nancy do as “historic” and “solemn,” and the Republican reaction as “diatribes” and “onslaughts.”

Liberals think Chuck Todd is the "gold standard" of pundits/interviewers.

. . . But on Wednesday, Rush Limbaugh accused Todd of attempting an ineffective coup, as impeachment makes no dent in President Trump's approval ratings....which are actually going up.