Taibbi: Trump's War on the Media Should Make Us Better at Our Jobs

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ver the weekend, Mark Weinberg, former assistant press secretary to Ronald Reagan, became the latest prominent figure to denounce President Trump’s treatment of the press. Ripping Trump’s description of the media as “the enemy of the people,” Weinberg wrote:

We all know why Trump attacks the press as he does. He wants its credibility to be so broken that whenever it reports negative stories about him it will not be believed. That has ominous implications. If the President succeeds in his effort to discredit the press, then from whom will the people get the truth?

Weinberg wrote the piece for CNN, which has been at the center of Trump’s WWE battle with the press. This issue has been brewing for a while, but came to a head on Trump’s recent trip abroad. Things got really hot when the president ostentatiously refused to call on CNN’s Jim Acosta during Trump’s recent trip to Europe. His Orangeness sneered:

“I don’t take questions from CNN. Fake news. Let’s go to John Roberts of Fox. A real network…”

The pundit response was swift and furious. CNN’s Chris Cillizza, fast becoming the leading prominent-but-uninteresting voice of this generation (similar to the George Will of my youth), warned of something like an all-Fox future:

Link to tweet

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-war-on-media-699734/

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1. That was a good read! Thank you. nt