For journalists covering Trump, a Murrow moment

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I wished I could see that in our TV media, sadly. Still waiting to see anybody serious talk about Trump's financial links with Russia and Chian (so

http://www.cjr.org/analysis/trump_inspires_murrow_moment_for_journalism.php

AS EDWARD R. MURROW wrapped up his now-famous special report condemning Joseph McCarthy in 1954, he looked into the camera and said words that could apply today. “He didn’t create this situation of fear—he merely exploited it, and rather successfully,” Murrow said of McCarthy. Most of Murrow’s argument relied on McCarthy’s own words, but in the end Murrow shed his journalistic detachment to offer a prescription: “This is no time for men who oppose Senator McCarthy’s methods to keep silent—or for those who approve,” he said. “We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.”

After months of holding back, modern-day journalists are acting a lot like Murrow, pushing explicitly against Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. To be sure, these modern-day Murrow moments carry less impact: Long gone are the days in which a vast majority of eyeballs were tuned to the big-three television news programs. But we nonetheless are witnessing a change from existing practice of steadfast detachment, and the context in which journalists are reacting is not unlike that of Murrow: The candidate’s comments fall outside acceptable societal norms, and critical journalists are not alone in speaking up.

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1. Thank you for this

Good read indeed.

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2. I just hope

our Party leaders give up the subservient role they have playedd the last 7+ years with this hateful party of racist Nazi teabaggers who have found their new Fuhrer. I expect to see us go at this buffoon in a manner of a hungry dog with a very meaty bone. Leave nothing but nothing that the RW can use in the next 4+ years.