The Trump administration has launched a brand new part on whitehouse.gov devoted to attacking journalists by title. The web page opens with “Deceptive. Biased. Uncovered.” and options an “Offender Corridor of Disgrace” with a leaderboard rating information retailers by how a lot the administration dislikes their protection. The Washington Publish is at the moment in first place. Congrats?
There is a searchable database the place you may lookup particular person reporters and their offending articles, every helpfully categorized below labels like “bias,” “malpractice,” or “left wing lunacy.”
The “media offenders of the week” this spherical are the Boston Globe, CBS Information, and the Impartial, accused of mischaracterizing Trump’s remarks about six Democratic lawmakers. For context: Trump had accused these Democrats of “seditious conduct, punishable by demise” and reposted an announcement that included the phrases “dangle them.” The White Home says the media unfairly implied one thing untoward about this.
One of many Washington Publish articles flagged on the location reported that the Coast Guard was dropping swastikas and nooses from its record of hate symbols. The Coast Guard reversed course after the story ran — which, in journalism, we name “the story working.” The Publish famous the reversal in a follow-up.
As reported in The Guardian, this follows Trump’s lawsuits in opposition to the Wall Avenue Journal and New York Instances, authorized settlements with ABC and CBS, and his latest behavior of personally attacking feminine journalists — calling a Bloomberg correspondent a “piggy,” an ABC reporter a “horrible individual,” and a New York Instances correspondent “ugly, each in and out” after she famous the 79-year-old president seemed to be operating low on vitality.
An official authorities web site sustaining a searchable database of journalists the state finds troublesome is the form of factor we used to examine in historical past books about different nations.
Beforehand:
• Citizen journalist arrested for photographing sheriff’s deputy at Texas county assembly
• Bomb disguised as USB flash drive exploded when inserted into journalist’s laptop
• Citizen journalist enthusiastically reviews native home fireplace
