This entire election cycle is turning on one factor – dishonest reporting. There is no other proper term for it. DISHONEST REPORTING.
When a candidate lies and the press does not report it as a lie, that is dishonest reporting. When he does it DAILY and HOURLY, and the press does not report the lies as lies, it can only be called dishonest reporting.
When a candidate refuses to produce his tax returns, and the press doesn’t hound him into doing it, that is dishonest reporting.
When a candidate can make up shit about the other candidate and the press pretends that such fabrications are not just made-up shit (LIES), then that is dishonest reporting.
When a candidate can flip-flop hourly about his stance on any – ANY – issue, and the press does not laugh him out of town EVERY TIME, then that is dishonest reporting.
When a candidate has spent more than five years calling the President of the USA a Kenyan by birth, and the press lets him get away with it, then that is dishonest reporting.
When a candidate has had 3500 lawsuits against him and the press isn’t digging into as many as they can find for DIRT, then that is dishonest reporting.
When a candidate has CURRENT and multiple state-driven fraud court cases against him, and the press doesn’t put that as above-the-fold headlines, then that is dishonest reporting.
When a candidate has a civil case against him about having sex four times with a 13-year-old back in the 1990s, and the press doesn’t take off on him about it, then that is dishonest reporting.
When a candidate consorts with racists and the press doesn’t hang him with their pens, from February to November, then that is dishonest reporting.
When the press does not refer to him by name as “Donald Trump, the racist candidate” every day, then that is dishonest reporting.
When a candidate has been smeared by the other party with baseless and unprovable allegations that KEEP on proving to be baseless, over and over, and the press goes along with it, then that is dishonest reporting.
The list goes on and on, and what we have is a press that has no principles except selling news – but which is passing on the chance to sell FAR MORE news, simply by driving Donald Trump deep into the racist and lying gutter from whence he came.
I won’t even call it irresponsible reporting, because reporters are beholden to the publishers who sign their checks, not to the public. So selling more subscriptions is actually responsible, from that POV.
But this is the first and foremost time in American political campaign history that the press – in toto – has been so dishonest, on a daily basis and as a herd.
Is there anything to say but SHAME ON THEM, and what they are inviting to HAPPEN to the country?
And it’s going to HAPPEN, if they don’t start being honest in their reporting.
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