Since the beginning of Donald Trump’s political career, journalists have found it necessary to monitor each other, insist that any notion of objectivity or balance with Trump was a serious sin, a corrupt attempt to “normalize” an abnormally dangerous candidate.
Now that Trump is in his second term, some rare voices have presented the novel concept that to combat confidence in the media, there should be balance attempts. The founder of Mediaite, Dan Abrams, was interviewed for the medium -sized podcast and proclaimed that journalists should occasionally say something positive about Trump or give him credit for something. God free us!
“I think there is a level of Trump disorder syndrome among some that are completely unable to give credit for anything,” Abrams said. “And you want to restore credibility? Try to call balls and strikes. Give credit when justified, recognize successes. I think that then allows you to criticize too. “
On the other side of that debate is the former media reporter of CNN Oliver Darcy. He was a logical guest for “On The Media”, a weekly radio program of the NPR Wnyc affiliate in New York.
Darcy complained about the coverage of the CNN inauguration was intolerately soft: “None of the CNN presenters pointed out that Donald Trump is the first criminal convicted of taking that position. They did not point out that he was accused twice. You had many right -wing extremists and many theorists of the right -wing conspiracy stuffed in the roundabout, “and was not” called “.
This was compared to Jake Tapper’s speech after Trump’s defeat in 2020: “It should be said, paraphrasing President Ford, for dozens of millions of our US fellow citizens, his long national nightmare is over.”
The Wnyc presenter, Micah Loewinger, added: “You argue that Jake Tapper’s lazy coverage embodies a major trend we are seeing in the media, which is being removed from the aggressive coverage of Donald Trump. He comed the phenomenon of ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’ the 1956 horror movie “.
In that movie, Space Aliens was the “Pod people” that replaced humans with duplicates without emotions. This implied that Darcy lacked the hate of Trump of free flow that throws “condemned criminal” and “twice impeccable” and “January. 6” in any other prayer.
Darcy cried to CNN was no longer led by Jeff Zucker, who “really encouraged the presenters to be implacable, to express the lies that Donald Trump was pressing.”
In Darcy’s brain space, it is the “audience that actually lives” that is based on the New York Times and the “Maga Base” that considers that times are insuffcently leftist. The “reality” guardians are the most woken that cross within these newspapers and television and radio networks to use the most inflammatory (and self -contracting language) about resisting Trump as a fascist threat to democracy.
They do not care about surveys that show a decrease in media confidence. They end up advocating a safe path to bankruptcy for media companies, admiring as Jim Acosta in all inflammatory steps.
Tim Graham is a media analysis director at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the Newsbusters.org blog
