In his recent Sun commentary, “Democracy demands a free press,” (Aug. 23), New Times Senior Staff Writer Glen Starkey says the press “does its very best to be unbiased and fair,” which isn’t true at all. Then he tells his readers not to believe in Trump’s “fake news hype” simply because he fails to understand that when Trump talks about fake news he’s talking about the staggering amount of negative press the mainstream media dishes out about him on a daily basis.
Journalists always talk about diversity, yet how many conservatives are on the staff of any paper in America? Freedom of the press does not mean license to constantly defame and denigrate someone just because they don’t like him, yet 91 percent of all the reporting about this president is negative. From the very beginning liberal publications have attacked him, his family, and his supporters with extreme bias and over-the-top negativity. They’ve vilified, impugned, mocked, and called him every name in the book and worked diligently to discredit him before he was even elected.
When Trump claimed he would grow the economy to 3 percent they called him a clown. Now it’s at 4.1 percent and growing. When he refused to kowtow to Kim Jong Jun Un like Obama did before him, they said he’d start WWIII. Instead, he emerged with a peaceful alliance, fewer missile sites, and a Non-Proliferation Treaty. It seems Trump’s actions belie the so-called free press no matter how hard they try to malign him.
When George Soros brought Barack Obama in with his 42 czars, his ObamaCare fiasco, his illegal Mexican gun-running scheme, his failure to stop ISIS, and his support for Iran, you never criticized him. Yet you criticize Donald Trump mercilessly. You ignore his burgeoning economy, exciting new trade deals, victories over illegal immigration, ISIS, MS-13, and other illegal alien criminals; his new highs for businesses and employment for women, blacks, and Hispanics; and his renewed spirit of optimism in America. Fair and balanced? Hardly.
All we hear about is the evil Trump, how his toxic masculinity is destroying America or how his nominee for Supreme Court Justice is undermining women’s ability to survive–claims which are ridiculous in themselves, yet they’re overshadowed by former FBI Director Robert Muller’s trumped-up Russia collusion investigation designed to cover up the criminality of Hillary Clinton and her co-conspirators in the DNC, IRS, FBI, and the DOJ.
Why not go after the real villains, which are the Washington elitists and the Trump-hating media instead of trying to establish an opinion dictatorship of your own? You might even begin to improve your 11 percent credibility rating with the rest of America. That’s doubtful to say the least, but you could try.
This article appears in Oct 4-11, 2018.