So interesting that, when I announced Trump National Doral in Miami would be used for the hosting of the G-7, and then rescinded due to Do Nothing Democrat/Fake News Anger, very few in Media mentioned that NO PROFITS would be taken, or would be given FREE, if legally permissible!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 20, 2019
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According to “The Elements of Journalism,” a collection of essays on journalistic practices and ethics, “Journalism’s first obligation is to the truth.” Fulfilling that obligation is an entirely different matter. Press coverage of President Donald Trump, especially media scrums, tests the limits of that guiding principle nearly every day. How can you report the truth when Trump is unable to distinguish it from lies and smears? Despite the media’s attempts at fact-checking, Trump’s falsehoods take center stage, and as the saying goes, you cannot unring the bell.
The rules of the game have changed, and it appears that journalists have not kept up. The consequences of this slow response are striking. Trump not only controls the narrative, most of which is demonstrably false, but also he molds perception by using the press as his conduit to deceit. The remedy may sound severe and conflict with other journalistic foundational precepts, but failure to adapt borders on dereliction. Unless the White House agrees to reinstate daily presidential briefings and restore traditional presidential news conferences, the press should restrict coverage. Absent containment, the president’s agenda of mass media manipulation will only amplify.
— Jim Paladino, Tampa, Florida
Note from KBJ: I'm unaware of a single falsehood uttered by Donald Trump. What in the world is the letter writer talking about? Perhaps the letter writer hates it that Trump is able to speak to the nation via Twitter.
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Crooked Hillary Clinton just called the respected environmentalist and Green Party candidate, Jill Stein, a “Russian Asset.” They need a Green Party more than ever after looking at the Democrats disastrous environmental program!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 19, 2019
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Here is Kurt Schlichter's latest column.
“The Worst Thing Ever!”
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The toxic mix of Donald Trump’s overconfidence and insularity to which we called attention two years ago, in the book “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump,” much to the chagrin of the American Psychiatric Association, has played out with lethal consequences in northern Syria. Trusting his “gut” over consultation with readily available American and allied military leaders, diplomats, and Middle East and security experts, Trump, in his “unmatched wisdom,” has triggered a catastrophic humanitarian crisis, and his move constitutes an irretrievable betrayal of Kurdish allies who carried the burden of the successful ground campaign against the Islamic State.
The Kurds are paying the immediate, dreadful price for Trump’s arrogance and unwarranted certainty. Our bill will come later.
Dr. Leonard L. Glass
Boston
Edwin B. Fisher
Chapel Hill, N.C.
Dr. Bandy X. Lee
New Haven
The writers are professors, respectively, at Harvard Medical School, Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina, and Yale School of Medicine.
Note from KBJ: Yes, because only a mentally ill person would want to save American lives.
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Democrats are now the party of high taxes, high crime, open borders, late-term abortion, socialism, and blatant corruption. The Republican Party is the party of the American Worker, the American Family, and the American Dream! #KAG2020 pic.twitter.com/qXB198T5cM
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 18, 2019
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