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BoscoX -> How Alt Left Hysteria Helps President Trump (1/13/2017 6:48:59 AM)
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The weather is gonna be great again, just in time for President Trump's inauguration btw
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In his must-read Politico Magazine column published on Tuesday, National Review editor Rich Lowry doled out some advice for hyperventilating journalists over President-elect Trump blasting their profession (like this week when BuzzFeed News published the salacious dossier).
Lowry began with the simple admission that BuzzFeed’s decision to publish the unsubstantiated dossier was by far “[t]he best thing that happened to Donald Trump all week” because “in the media’s ongoing fight with Donald Trump,” the site’s “incredible act of journalistic irresponsibility represented the press leading with its chin.”
With that in mind, Lowry pointed out the obvious that “Trump thrives off of media hostility” and the media’s incoherence has only further eroded the public’s trust in the press. But then came BuzzFeed’s jaw-dropping story:
BuzzFeed played right into his hands. There are legitimate questions raised about how determined Trump has been to ignore evidence of Russia’s hacking operations prior to the election. But BuzzFeed did more to obscure and discredit these questions than Trump Tower could ever hope to. By publishing the uncorroborated dossier, BuzzFeed has associated the Russia issue with fantastical rumors and hearsay.
Lowry continued, blasting BuzzFeed News’s pathetic “decision to post the document has to be considered another chapter in the ongoing saga of the media and Democrats losing their collective minds.”
Next, the conservative writer made a masterful point that few (if any) in the media have acknowledged, which is that “f the election had gone the other way, it is hard to see BuzzFeed publishing a 35-page document containing unverified, lurid allegations about President-elect Hillary Clinton that it didn’t consider credible.”
“This was an anti-Trump decision, pure and simple. It created a media firestorm, but everyone should realize by now that media firestorms are Trump’s thing,” Lowry added.
Going briefly to the media’s friends in the Democratic Party, Lowry observed that they “have done themselves no favors by implicitly refusing to accept the election results after browbeating Trump for months to accept the results in advance.”
http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2017/01/12/rich-lowrys-advice-panicked-media-over-buzzfeed-story-relax-take
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