Top Newspaper Editors Reflect on Their Trump Coverage

Posted On 01 Jan 2017

Editors behind two of the nation’s leading newspapers appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press this Sunday to discuss President-elect Donald Trump and the media. Dean Baquet of the New York Times and Gerard Baker of the Wall Street Journal sat down with host Chuck Todd to talk about the First Amendment, their responsibilities when it comes to covering Trump, and how they failed to see his victory coming in advance.

Baquet said he was concerned about Trump’s remarks about the media.

“First off, the things he has said about the press in general are troublesome,” Baquet said. “He has said things that should make all journalists nervous about his view of the First Amendment, about his view of a press that’s supposed to ask him tough questions. So that makes me nervous.”

Please. It’s never been about “tough questions,” and it’s laughable to see Baquet on television pretending that’s what it is. To the extent that Trump has attacked the press (and the New York Times in particular), it has been largely justified by horrible, biased reporting. No one can deny that, least of all anyone familiar with the Times. They weren’t just in the tank for Hillary Clinton; they practically turned their paper into an official campaign publication.

The Wall Street Journal’s Baker said he was instructing his staffers to avoid making inflammatory comments on social media. He said it wasn’t necessarily appropriate for journalists to cover Trump in an antagonistic way. When Todd asked him if he would be willing to call out the president-elect on his “lies,” Baker argued that there were less confrontational ways to get the point across.

“I’d be careful about using the word, ‘lie,’” Baker said. “‘Lie’ implies much more than just saying something that’s false. It implies a deliberate intent to mislead.”

He said the better approach was to report Trump’s claims, report the facts as the paper knew them, and let readers reach their own conclusions.

“It’s up to the reader to make up their own mind to say, ‘This is what Donald Trump says. This is what a reliable, trustworthy news organization reports.’ I think if you start ascribing a moral intent, as it were, to someone by saying that they’ve lied, I think you run the risk that you look like you’re not being objective,” he said.

See, this is more in line with responsible journalism. No one’s saying that the media needs to shower Donald Trump with praise morning and night. But if they could just treat him with half the respect they treated Barack Obama, it would be a vast improvement over what we’re seeing now.

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EDD

Trump was right to call out the liberal press. A research on who owns the mainstream press should convince the independent thinking individual that there is a concerted effort for brainwashing people into believing the liberal causes are what American’s should believe. Unbiased reporting by the msm is a fiction.

Trump’s spokesman is indicating new approaches toward dealing with the public. He will be using media approaches that bypasses msm in order to disseminate his ideas and proposals. As seen by a quote: “Baker argued that there were less confrontational ways to get the point across”; the msm might just try telling truth more often because they have to realize they are losing readership and news casting if they continue their old patterns.

There will be more forthcoming exposures of just how corrupt the propaganda has become in this next year. As a person who has never been on the Obama bandwagon, I had high hopes that his disastrous first four years would result in a new leader during the last presidential election. Perhaps Obama’s second term was enough to invigorate the more conservative element of the U.S. citizens to become proactive.

Much might be made of the liberal faction to do away with the electoral college. IMO, the system worked as envisioned by our forefathers where certain concentrated areas of population would not determine an outcome whic would not be in the best interests of a free country.
- Askjrsk
  
  They are so yesterday. Irrelevant and out of touch Easily blindsided ha ha
  - Ron C
    
    The problem is going to be the latest version of the “National Defense Authorization Act”.
- Edward B. Levy
  
  Well EDD & kotoc AND the vast majority making comments on this issue, I could not agree with you MORE! I would just be filling out more space to keep this going. Just about all of the media was pro-Hildabeast and ANTI-Trump. I would some at FOX: Kelly, Bill, Brett, Geraldo The only ONE to be FAIR & BALANCE was Hannity. Kelly was and STILL is against Trump. She became a “model” $20 million prostitute. Sexy clothes, hair stle, book etc. If CNN (clinton news network) will pick up the tab, she is GONE!
  - Judie
    
    NBC got her. Don’t watch any msm. Too biased.
    - Lyndau123
      
      And IF you THINK that NBC is NOT you are a MORON! Brain washed to the cell!
      - Judie
        
        You obviously misunderstood my text. I was referring to a biased person ( as in Kelly)going to a biased network such as NBC, CBS, MSNBC and CNN and all of the liberal stations. She belongs there not at a station that tries to present both sides fairly
      - WhiteFalcon
        
        I didn’t misunderstand and I totally agree with you.
      - Lyndau123
        
        Sorry I guess I did misinterpret your comment. We do agree!
    - Edward B. Levy
      
      tHIS deplorable DOES NOT PLAN TO WATCH THIS WITCH. I THINK THAT NBC WILL REGRET WHAT THE NUMBERS (RATING) WILL BE. I AM SURE THEY WILL “FAKE” NEWS THE NUMBERS. HAPPY TO SEE THAT FOX”DUMPED” HER and Lyndau123, why do you feel that you have to slink in and call Judie a MORON for voicing an opinion
      - maxx
        
        NBC has made lots of mistakes in their quest for rating. Fallon still isn’t getting the ratings that Leno got even after he was pushed out and then brought back. Fallon is a typical SNL ensemble player. He can’t stand on his own like Leno or Carson did for decades. Colbert is another boring joke. I actually watch old reruns of vintage Carson. He is still the best. Doesn’t need anything controversial or blue or others to make his show good.
  - Michael Lamendola
    
    kelly is not a prostitute. melania is,. check out this shot bro https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/599cebb0225755cb466aa5726f66d9a1119e7c4f3435bb31650fa0b2f2542fa7.jpg
    - laulau
      
      Don’t you know the difference between a model and a prostitute? Do you think ever girl that poses nude is paid for sex with a man? Why do you call her a prostitute?
      - WhiteFalcon
        
        Because he is STUPID. Aside from that, she sure beats the heII out of Moochelle.
      - laulau
        
        Right on!
      - Michael Lamendola
        
        yes. plus she is white and tight. lots of “p” to grab onto, eh? p.s. what do you call a model who has no skills and marries a rich older man? answer: the first lady of the fucking united states. only in america can a semi-literate slav climb to the top by sleeping her way there. .. peace my friends, allah blesses you
      - WhiteFalcon
        
        Allan does not exist.
      - Michael Lamendola
        
        allah, moron. not allan. allan is your boyfriend
      - WhiteFalcon
        
        Sometimes this tablet posts words that it wants to rather than what I type. It makes me mad but it is difficult to keep it from doing that, plus I had no opportunity to edit the post after I hit enter.
      - David Hansen
        
        Watch your language garbage mouth. Clean your filthy mouth with Tide. may God Bless you not Allah
      - Michael Lamendola
        
        lol. never asshole. allah saves
      - Michael Lamendola
        
        https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/50b61f1760884ab0f8cd653c0581928335f6e3258b4ed2b619bc21dd208b9485.jpg
        
        kiss my gun david has been
      - Charles Burnes
        
        If you have a gun Nobama most likely provided it for you.
      - Charles Burnes
        
        I hope he’s got those virgins on hold for you my friend
      - Michael Lamendola
        
        my hope is that the virgins look like melania, trump’s super fine wife, but we all know she ain;t no virgin. she fucked her way to the top. lol white and tight baby, white and tight.
      - Edward B. Levy
        
        WHAT A SHAME THAT THIS SITE, DOES NOT CENSOR LOW-LIFE GARBAGE MOUTHS LIKE YOU. CAN NOT IMAGINE THAT DECENT PARENTS DID NOT SEE WHAT THEY HAD UP FRONT AND ABORT YOU. CAN NOT WAIT TO SEE YOUR SLIME FILTH COMMENT TO MY MAIL I GUESS YOU WERE THE AFTERBIRTH AND THEY THREW OUT THE REST. PROBABLY IN THE BACK WOODS OF ARKANSAS WHERE YOU WERE FIRST CONCEIVED DURING A NIGHT OF EXCESSIVE DRINKING OR OVERDOSE OF BAD DRUGS,
      - Michael Lamendola
        
        sounds like you are advocating abortion? hmm. what would trump say>? https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/d5811120c48915a84ffeccc9a42c45839dad619710dd41bc6a1027cc7e126bac.jpg
      - Charles Burnes
        
        What an asshole you are. .and consequently proved it so well.
      - Michael Lamendola
        
        fuck off shit head https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/0a0f3542459c3fcbda06a26573accdb88780093be95198c1accf3121162f0ab7.jpg
        
        this is the difference between class and ass [in case you don;pt understand, the ass is trump]
      - Michael Lamendola
        
        nah, man, you and trump are the assholes, and it looks like the russians plan to blackmail your boy and make him their bitch, jeez i weep for america now. such a sad tragedy.
      - Edward B. Levy
        
        laulau, Because he does know better(DUH) All of his information comes from the corrupt media.
      - Michael Lamendola
        
        https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/8804d5fd4f9cf8690964d1cb799ab0883c12c79738175fc91a4cf0255cd57412.jpg
        you should know douche bag. lol
      - Edward B. Levy
        
        i THINK WHOEVER PHOTO SHOPPED THIS ON SHOULD HAVE PUT YOUR DEMENTED
        HEAD ON IT. i THINK THAT ALL OF US WILL BOYCOTT YOU AND DO NO FURTHER REPLIES.
        i HOPE ALL ON THIS SITE, STOP REPLYING TO THIS NON-PERSON. HE WILL EVENTUALY DRY UP, PUT HIS HEAD IN A GAS OVEN, TURN THE PILOT LIGHT OF AND DIE A SPECIAL DEATH, OR ELSE MAYBE RUN HIS CAR IN A CLOSED IN GARAGE rip LAMENDOLA
      - Michael Lamendola
        
        i think not idiot. u know why? because you are too stupid to shut up. u just have to have the last word. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ea44d77a4088dc4b0eab15a572d1614908639894992724ce67833e2b7a8927e3.jpg
        kisses to you and the first chick./… yum. she looks delicious.. don;t you think>?
    - David Hansen
      
      ML, you are a total idiot for criticizing Melania. Are you a fan of Moo Shell? It’s time we had a real lady in the White House. Delete the picture and delete youself while you’re at it.
    - Charles Burnes
      
      Another fat headed brain dead liberal. Please do us all a favor. ..pull the trigger
  - maxx
    
    Kelly and Carlson won’t be the last to follow the same path. I couldn’t stand either one. They were not journalists by any stretch of the imagination.
    - Edward B. Levy
      
      Well Maxx, for my money all of the folks in general on FOX NBC ABC CBS etc, are not Journalists, they are basically READERS. eVEN THE QUESTIONS THAT THE read TO THE GUESTS are prepared for them. Their compensation is outlandish to say the least
- MAHB001
  
  Blind leading the blind. All are blinded by the liberal ideology they follow.
  - Kurt Hanssen
    
    Why is there so many that can’t see right from wrong.
    - MAHB001
      
      It is by design… I think it has something to do with the demoralization that this guy was talking about. The left no longer accepts anything that goes against their ideology, and when you do that, you are unable to see right from wrong.
      
      I have been trying to understand it for quite some time now. I believe that if we can understand what has happened to them, we can devise a way to fix the problem. But old Yuri says once the liberal progressives are done with them they are going to squash them like cockroaches.
      
      https://youtu.be/mqSV72VNnV0
      - maxx
        
        The mind of a liberal will never ever be understood because it operates in a vacuum. Everything normal people view as good they hate. Everything that normal people view as bad they adopt. They even have a perverted view of mankind. To them humans are just carbon based life forms with no other redeeming value. The are so wrong and so sick they their only redeeming value would be as fertilizer. If they continue on this path they may get their wish.
      - MAHB001
        
        I think I have figured out the liberal mind, thanks to the video below. Saying that really scares me! 🙂
        
        Liberals have been taught to ride the backwards bicycle. Ideological subversion brainwashes the liberal into doing just the opposite of what a normal human being does. The zig when they should zag, they no longer accept anything that goes against their ideology which severely restricts their ability to reason.
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFzDaBzBlL0
        
        What do you think?
      - maxx
        
        I think you are on to something and that constant indoctrination by liberal teachers appears to be far more dangerous that I even thought. The video is really eye opening. I’m definitely passing it around.
      - MAHB001
        
        I saw the Ideological subversion video first, but did not understand how or what they were doing to brainwash their subjects. When I saw the backwards bicycle video something clicked and I think I now understand basically what the left going through.
        
        The left is taught to dismiss all information that comes from the right as lies. They no longer even consider the information “EVEN if there is a proponderance of facts put in front of them” (from the brainwash clip) they will not understand or process it, they can not accept facts if they go against their ideology.
        
        They have been taught to live in the world of the backwards bicycle. That makes sense to me.
        
        Cheers. let me know what others think. .
        
        ALSO, the only way the guy fixed his backwards bicycle thing was to be constantly exposed to the proper bicycle.
    - jim_wright
      
      Because they are products of liberal indoctrination. Look at the BS they are fed in public school. Look at the BS they are fed in children’s programs. No wonder they can’t thinks.
      - Kurt Hanssen
        
        That is the whole idea, it is much easier to control a bounche of ninkapoots (libertards) than somebody that got there brain intact.
- Ron C
  
  Yep…owned lock stock & barrel by the Globalist.
- Linda Page
  
  EDD, Well said! Good commentary!
- maxx
  
  You are exactly right about the Electoral College. America is a Constitutional Republic made up of states that voluntarily joined with other states. Every state contains a different amount of physical territory. In order for each state to own/have equality with regard to the government they created it is necessary to ignore the physical size of each state. The only way to do that is with the Electoral College which balances the peoples representation with the federal or central government. It IS working exactly as the Founders envisioned and set down as the law.
- jim_wright
  
  Remember that one of Reagan’s strengths was his ability to communicate directly to the American Public.
kotoc

They must not have any intention of correcting their Liberal agenda when “reporting” the news… hence their dodging the accusation of being biased by talking about the 1st amendment and tough questions, etc. If they had admitted their obvious bias, it would have meant that they have indeed considered the possibility that the Liberals lost for a really good reason, rather than Russia “influencing” the election, rigging it, or something like that. If they had cast the spotlight on Obama’s gaffes, lies and political blunders from day one, he would have lost favor with the masses a LONG time ago. Same with Hillary. Sooooo…. it looks like Trump will never stop getting badgered with the media throwing stones. (Sour grapes anyone?)
- Askjrsk
  
  Their very disgusting
  - Lyndau123
    
    AND ANTI-AMERICAN! There! I SAID it! And it is the TRUTH! They want “One World Order” where all people are dictated to, ZERO Freedoms, NO Liberty and NO Democracy exist and only the extremely wealthy despots RULE everyone else. What most Americans (especially the brain washed college students of the past couple of decades) who believe Socialism is good, FAIL to understand is that with Socialism you are ALL poor as church mice (see Russia, Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea) so No one on the planet will benefit from ANY charity $$ as there IS NONE! And we who were once very altruistic will have No MONEY to help or make a better world for ANY poor. Instead, we ALL become SLAVES to a couple of dictators! Think Obama 100 times WORSE even! A NIGHTMARE!
    - Askjrsk
      
      ALINSKY agenda.
BonnieBleu

I don’t need the media to tell me what Trump said when I can hear it directly from President Trump.
The media lost me when what they said he said was not what I heard. They are superfluous and misleading.
- Askjrsk
  
  So right
- Winston Anderson
  
  Sure Bonnie Bleu. We didn’t need the media to tell us what Trump said. We don’t know why they are now jumping on Trump’s donkey cart. Also, whatever they had reported, they were all truths, it were all FACTS, so why come now, to act as how TRUMP kept dishing off, all his wrongs. The pressure should keep going, for he never apologize for any wrongs, he committed, he never paid his income taxes, and WILL never pay any either.
  Trump’s actions, cannot and should never be swept under the carpet forever. I would stop reading your newspapers, if you decided to hide Trumps wrongs. Lets hope 64-millions Americans, think the same way also.
  - Stephen E Birmingham
    
    Seriously??? He didn’t pay taxes??? That’s what you’re running with. So you don’t try to get out of paying taxes? He hasn’t broken the law. The Clinton’s use the same tax code and they got out of MILLIONS of $$ of taxes. Explain his wrong doings? What does he need to apologize for? Telling the truth? Damn snowflakes……
    - BonnieBleu
      
      Absolutely correct. The IRS has his taxes and are auditing them. It is the tens of thousands of HRCs deleted emails that are of interest.
      - Nellie McConnell
        
        Obama’s and HILLARY off shore accounts I hope.
      - Askjrsk
        
        Audit those tax scams!
      - Askjrsk
        
        And billions of missing dollars from the state department
    - Linda Page
      
      Right on!
      - Askjrsk
        
        Absolutely
    - Askjrsk
      
      Trump has paid lots of taxes. SAIF city, state, county real estate taxes. Federal tax he has a legal deduction from losses. That is a no brainer. Those that accuse Trump of not paying probably haven’t paid and are like bing off government entitlements. HILLARY skins. HILLARY steals Haitian relief funds. Speaking fees. The whole CLINTON foundation a scam to avoid federal taxes.
  - whoselineisitanyway
    
    YOU’RE A PAID SOROS TROLL
    - Lyndau123
      
      I HATE TROLLS ! They ALWAYS LIE and SLANDER and DECEIVE with their ignorance and pure nastiness!
    - Askjrsk
      
      That’s it nobody is that stupid !!!
      A troll
  - goldie
    
    Our elected officials passed a bill that if you make so much you don’t have to pay taxes. Which means basically just the secretarys and on down pay.
  - Nellie McConnell
    
    I don’t like Obama’s CHANGE. I want his BIRTH certificate and school records, off shore ACCOUNT and what he promised South America countries, Cuba and Mexico with open borders, how much MONEY sent to TERRORS countries, WHY UN picked unvetted Refugees for our country. How many jobs sent to foreign countries. Why cover up on terrors here??
    TRUMP drain that swamp including Republican that didn’t support you.
    - Askjrsk
      
      Yes
    - Judie
      
      Agree!
    - maxx
      
      I pray every day to hear that Trump will “unlock” all of the records Oblowhard has been hiding. That is the only way to get to the truth of this SOB.
  - Lyndau123
    
    Sorry MORON! The WRONGS were directly from the LIBTURD Clinton Cartel Media who LIED in every sentence they spewed to those watching the OWNED Media! CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS and NBC! ALL SLANDERED the president-elect every damn day that he campaigned for the TRUTH! You are delusional!
  - Askjrsk
    
    Lies. Communists propaganda
  - Askjrsk
    
    Go Trump. So glad we have President Donald Trump and not lying crooked con inept incompetent incapable and unfit HILLARY and the CLINTON crime cartel.
  - Judie
    
    You’re so UNinformed. Truly pathetic.
    .
- Stephen E Birmingham
  
  As well as the Liberals that continue to cry about Hillary losing. They make comments like “Trump called all Mexicans Rapist and Murders”. That is 100% misinterpretation of what he said. He said that the SOME of the illegals coing across are rapist and murders. That is a FACT…there are too many comments that the Clinton loving press misrepresented. They are liars and might as well be Friction writers..
  - Linda Page
    
    Exactly right….the left constantly, twisted what Trump said and expected no one to notice! They really under estimated the intelligence of the American people! Unbelievable!
  - Askjrsk
    
    That’s the plan emotion.
  - maxx
    
    That is how communism/Marxism operates. We have at least an entire generation of young people that have been indoctrinated toward socialism by liberal professors and teachers. That takeover of academia is one of the tenants of the Communist Manifesto. And that tenant has been successfully accomplished. Federally controlled school systems are the result.
- Askjrsk
  
  Absolutely
Patriot47

Three liars trying to explain away their loss of all credibility.
Just more proof journalism is dead – propaganda lives on.
- Askjrsk
  
  Absolutely
Daze Inde

Tell Baquet to go jump in the lake. What is “troubling” is the communist-style propaganda that emanating from what used to be known as the American press. Bias, bigotry, hostility and hatred is NOT American Press. Hope the entire lot of them are shoved out the door. Clean house. Drain the swamp.
J.B.Jacobs

Trump said the press needs to be held accountable for everything they put out. Scared the press to death. That’s one reason they wanted Hillary to win. Trump is right, you should be able to pick up a newspaper and believe what you read. Now you don’t know whether it’s the truth or not. Now, if they don’t have accredible storys they just make up one. If it’s a lie, they should be sued for it. They should not be able to print something that they have no proof that it is true, if they do, they should be held accountable for it.
- Ron C
  
  If you could sue a propagandist….well that would chill them to the bone!
  - Askjrsk
    
    For certain
bill14729 .

Oh so they had a Liberal get together to see how they can keep slandering Trump.
Any get together with Chuck Todd involved you know is about Liberals not the basket of deplorables.
GO TRUMP
- Askjrsk
  
  Go Trump
bill14729 .

Time to hold ABC, NBC, CBS and others accountable for their Fake News. GO TRUMP
- whoselineisitanyway
  
  All the alphabet news media should be renamed
  PRAVDAPRESS.
  - Askjrsk
    
    Yes
- Askjrsk
  
  Alphabet soup has more news
  - Lyndau123
    
    Try noodle soup. It’s much more credible…
    - Askjrsk
      
      That’s true.
R Monty

THE NEWS MEDIA PEOPLE ARE IN THEIR OWN LITTLE WORLD, AND NOBODY CAN BREAK INTO IT!! BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN LIED TO BY HILLARY! THEY LOVE HER AND WANT TO HELP HER!! SO NOW THAT THEY LOOSE AND GO HOME, LOOK IN THE MIRROR AND CRY!! IT WAS YOUR FAULT, BUT YOUR BOSS SAID IT WAS SOMEBODY ELSE FAULT!! YOU SAY A SIGH OF RELIEF AND GO ON BEING AN IDIOT!! YOU ALL ARE IN THAT BOAT!!
- Winston Anderson
  
  DID you read, where the Republicans, said they had to make up the LIES against Hillary, in order to win? Did you read where Republicans, said the E-Mails stories were only lies, but they had to continue on it, nonstop? NOW who are the Liars?
  DEMOCRATS, YOU WILL CONTROL EVERYTHING ANOTHER TIME, SO DON’T BE DISCOURAGED. TRUMP,MUST, MUST, MUST FAIL ALL AMERICANS, IN TWO YEARS.
  - Ron C
    
    It was democrat email…son you are disjointed.
    - Lyndau123
      
      Mental Illness runs in Winston’s family. Forgive the IDIOT!
  - Askjrsk
    
    Winnie the troll
don76550

Baquet, you lying propagandists have nobody but yourselves to blame for your lack of credibility. What Trump says is exactly right. You people are not journalists, you are lying graduates from the Joseph Goebbels school of propaganda and mendacity. You have been lying to the American people on issue after issue for years and now it has finally and rightfully destroyed your credibility. I believe nothing you say, I believe nothing you print and I agree with Trump that libel laws need to be changed so vermin like you can be held accountable.
- Askjrsk
  
  Not good enough to wrap fish one piece of paper thick. Ha ha
Loving America

Wake Up Americans……”Obama has manipulated the News to Suit what he wanted Us to know for 8 years!” Truth and Lies are not the same thing! Obama just is a dictator piece of s_it! This morning an announcement from the other side of the Tird piece of the dictator s_it called Michele Obama supposidly announced her Run for the White House in 2020….Americans she needs to go down and out of America with her Nazi husband! They “Have” to pay for their Crimes against Humanity including the lives Murdered of Our Fellow Americans in Benghazi! They ran guns with Holder, Soros, Hitler Hillary to Old Mexico and to Syria it took Cities and Lives by the millions where their Illegal Gun running landed! Let’s shout “Get Em…Get the Killer Criminals…Hang Them!”
- Michael Dennewitz
  
  The “Cliton Cartel” outdid the mafia dozens of years ago! Who do you think was/is responsible for all those unexplained deaths, including the best SNIPER worldwide, Chris Kyle?? The HNIC KNEW Chris would be coming after his sorry, faggot ass sooner or later!! ???
Rick D.

It’s laughable to hear the editors complaining about not being encouraged to ask “tough questions” of Trump. When in the past 8 years has anyone in the lame-stream media asked Obozo a “tough” question? Instead, they roll out softballs and yuk it up with him by stroking Barry’s ego. What a joke!!
- Askjrsk
  
  They are laughable
- Askjrsk
  
  True
TOM P O’DONNELL

IF IT IS A TRUMP TWEET IT IS ACCURATE. THE COMMUNIST EVOLUTION IS OVER.
- Askjrsk
  
  About time
nancy miller

The only glaring lies that I have observed in the last nine years have been by the press. They talk about taking the high road but they act more like snakes rubbing their bellies in the mud with all their lying.
- Askjrsk
  
  Yes
- Ron C
  
  And ignoring the truth like a plague…
- Lyndau123
  
  You never heard all the lies of Obama and Killary? They TAUGHT (and PAID!) the press to LIE for them!
- Askjrsk
  
  So true
Askjrsk

Don’t read newspapers any more. Does anyone? They are so biased out dated and stale. Except for the NATIONAL ENQUIRER
- rivahmitch
  
  As Mark Twain quipped “Those who fail to read the newspaper are uninformed. Those who do read it are misinformed”. Hell of a choice there;-)!
  - Askjrsk
    
    Absolutely
davesnrakleberger

the nyt and the rest of the media are to be ridiculed and shamed.
epauls

I thought it was the Media’s responsibility to REPORT the news; not to tell me how to vote. I heard a couple of j’s say that their job was to “make a difference”, that is the job of a Propaganda Specialist. I recall a few years ago when we only had ABC, CBS, & NBC getting their news from AP; the news was the same on all three stations. But then CNN came and ‘bought’ existing celeb j’s and made it four. To critique the Media is not only proper, but NECESSARY.
Jo K

We can clearly see that the so called editors are the root of the problem at these msm papers. They sound all “lawyered up” and speaking in legalese forked tongue. Always very careful to hide the truth and be politically correct when dealing with the public.
MAHB001

Fight the liberal MEDIA at: http://www.madashellboycott.com

If you don’t nobody will. Certainly not these jokers, I mean editors… They are the blind leading the blind.
Obie Miller

The liberal mainstream news media covers and prints what it gets paid to print……and George Soros and his buddies are doing the job of supplying that.
John Williams

The term “journalism” is no longer relevant in this day and age of liberal bias, the fact that these fools cannot see themselves as the ones who are biased, is a major part of the problem. The credibility of the MSM is very low and even the people who actually believe them to be somewhat reliable, have questions about their credibility. The liberal lap dog media has been exposed for what they are (whores for the left) and they don’t like it but they were caught with their pants down. Just like the party and the candidate they sold themselves for they are into deny and deflect, SOP for the socialist/progressive/democrats.
- Ron C
  
  So true…And each and everyone of them where indoctrinated in the halls of higher education!
  - Lyndau123
    
    You left out Liberal Socialist halls of Un-education and propaganda that is rampant in today’s colleges and universities!
  - Askjrsk
    
    Our tax dollars at work.
rivahmitch

This is actually funny… “A reliable, trustworthy news organization” is becoming nearly impossible to find. Breitbart and other independent but trustworthy sources are being silenced by the MSM and Democommie and their fascist industry collaborators. The recent establishment of a “Ministry of Truth” which will approve and promulgate the totalitarian government version of “Truth” and the Internationalization of Internet governance (when most of the countries involved have no semblance of a 1st Amendment) will further curtail access to information. So, since we know that the MSM is in the tank for Americans globalist and communist enemies… anything they have to say is totally worthless. The “marketplace of ideas” has been largely killed in our academic communities and the MSM by political correctness. So who is “trustworthy”? As a football coach of mine used to say “Trust noone but your mother and keep one eye on her”. Eff ’em all!
Ron C

Folk’s a zebra will never be a dog, and the MSM will never be a journalist! The very nature of propaganda never lends it’s self to being an “objective professional Journalist”. That is why the congress has put the governmental CIA agency in charge of deciding what is & isn’t so called “fake news”. Buy the changes in the latest NDAA passed and signed into law, by Obama…in the dead of the night with no MSM coverage…???
desert fox

The biased media sucks!!! No one believes what the hear or read from these liberal deadbeats. When their reporting was 91% negative about Trump and 98% positive about Killary, the public knew what losers these news readers were. I refuse to call them reporters because that would give them some believability and legitimize these worthless bastards. They can spend years criticizing Trump but the little minded girls and boys can’t take it when they are. Grow up! You made your bed; now you have to take what is dealt back.
daveveselenak

Hey commie Todd who I had scoped out long ago as he cut his teeth on “C – ommie Spin”, where were you and your sycophants when covering all of the Muslim-Marxist jihadist’s lies which were everything that came out of his sewer mouth – FUK-OFF, AZZHOLE!
Michelle Minze-Bryant

So, what do you call half truth’s? Purposefully not reporting all information in hopes to lead empty headed brainwashed individuals to a wrong conclusion.
TPS12

Strange they talk about calling out Trump on future lies while ignoring the Lies bo has been telling every day now since dems lost the election. msm is a joke asking tough questions is ok but you should have been doing that to both parties and you did not. Oh and giving one candidate the questions ahead of time is not fair and unbiased journalism. msm has a lot to fix before I’ll ever think your honest or have a truthful reporter, what you really have is opinion writers and cheerleaders for the dem/libs. Currently your just BS artists.
Jose

The news media is no longer just “reported unbiased news”, it is now an extended political arm of the democratic party. No democrat can do any wrong while no republican can ever do anything “positive”.
Michael Dennewitz

I was ok with the media until geo soros bought them up. This is why, 3 years ago I physically threw two TVs into the canal in back of my home. Today??? I TRUST NO ONE ASSOCIATED WITH THE MEDIA!! ?
- MyronJPoltroonian
  
  Now you’ve done it. Expect a multitude of visits from representatives of the EPA, Health Department(s) &c. shortly.
  - Michael Dennewitz
    
    Awwww, I can’t wait!??
  - Askjrsk
    
    Other controls rules and regulations instituted by OBAMA.
- Askjrsk
  
  You haven’t missed antthing
AL

Well NBC is No Brain Communist
- Askjrsk
  
  No brain NBC just hired Kelly Megyn to bring up their ratings. Ha ha ha
Bob Stewart

The press has been their own worst enemy. Maybe Dan Rather, CBS news started it by making up his own news. It has only gotten worse since then. I do not believe anything I see in news papers or see on TV. What a shame the media has destroyed their credibility.
cathylovesyou

We should discontinue freedom of the press, as the Communist Newspapers in America are not adhering to the reason behind this part of the Ammendment. The Press was supposed to wathc government all sides unbiasedly. They do not report on Communist left winged Democrats, only on Republicans and then lie, lie, so many Pinocio’s. The liberal Newspapers, liberal Networks are destructive to our country. They should be fair and stop the lies, I gave up a major newspaper I had deliverd for 58 years.
Art Schwartz

Why weren’t they asked about Hillary’s lies ? Oh I forgot. She never lied
Patriot1490

It’s wasn’t that the media asked trump tough questions; It was that the media didn’t ask Hillary any questions of importance. They handled her with “kid gloves” and instead of letting her explain what and why she did things, they explained it for her; Letting her off the hook. The entire media was clearly covering for her and attempted to paint Trump as “Unbalanced, Unprofessional”, and Dangerous” They ran with Hillary’s declaration of Trump supporters being “Deplorables” They made excuses for her entire shady history going back to the cattle futures where, with absolutely NO EXPERIENCE IN THE FUTURES MARKET, she turned $ 1,000.00 into nearly, $ 100,000.00 in about 9-10 months. Her handling of Bill’s “Bimbo Eruptions” during the 1992 Election was a foray into character assassination. The Monica Lewinsky scandal blaming everything on a “Vast Right Wing Conspiracy”, Benghazi, The Russian Reset, The Arab Spring resulting in major insurgencies and/or civil wars in Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen Behrain, Egypt, Algeria, Iran, Lebanon, Jordan, Kuwait, etc., etc. Should I go on? I don’t believe it necessary and I do not wish to be redundant. Let’s face it, the media is complicit in Obama’s & Hillary’s screwing up the world. We haven’t even scratched the surface on her domestic debacles.
The Dutchman

I hope he banishes them from all interviews in the future. They no longer give us the news, Only their liberal views of the news.
cripesm

Mr. Baker, you are a toad! You are trying to twist everything that we the people are seeing and hearing. Don’t try to convince us that the lies we have been hearing from the media Print and TV are really truths. We are not the ignorant or stupid yokels you have convinced yourselves to believe. You and all the other minions need to be drained from the media swamp.
Michael Brown

I’m fine with tough questions by the media. I’m NOT fine when the media treats Democrats with velvet gloves and rips into Republicans. My question to the Times is this, where were you with Obama’s past? Where were you with Obama’s sealed past? Where were you with Fast N Furious? To the present, where are you with Obama claiming Russia hacked the DNC, where’s the evidence? Where’s the proof? The Times is still doing it. Sucking up everything Obama says without challenge, and questioning everything Trump does as President-Elect. The disparity is glaring. Real journalists ask ALL the questions of our politicians, not jump in bed with them and feed us the lies as truth coming from the Obama administration.
freedomcreator

What’s worrisome is when the liberal fake MSM says “This is what a reliable, trustworthy news organization reports” I would like to know which source that would be – so far I haven’t seen any reporting that fits that description from MSM which includes them.
PPTA

The Liberal Press has continually lied regarding Trump. many now see right through it. Trump has no choice but to tweet. The very first debate of the Republican Primary, and the very first question asked, I knew it was going to be a pack of lies coming out of the press towards Trump. And Megan Kelly Led the way. I have not watched her since. 750 million plus was spent to get him out of the primary. Not counting what Mitt Romney spent or Cruz. Another almost 750 million was spent when he became a candidate. Not only by Hillary, but the Never Trump Group, the Club Growth people who claim to be Republican but actually are funded from the Bilderberg Group, (the Globalist, group who also funds he Democrats and the RINO’S packs) That is over 1.6 billion to keep him out. en his cabinet, Democrats say he has o many Billionaires? hey will not be on the take from the Elite of the Elite rich, the Bilderberg Group,,like the RINO’S are, like The Democrat Leadership is. like Obama and his administration is. CNN, MSNBC, Washington Post, the New York Times, the Associated Press and many other local news papers which re owned by big publishing groups who people like George Soros owns.In fact George Soros owns 33 News Media outlets, along with others. All of the ones I mentioned above are owned and financed through the Globalist Group. Don’t think so? Look up with your search engine George Soros and see what his holdings are, also what his life long goa;s are. Remember Clint Eastwood’s empty Chair? The way I look at these Globalists, RINO’S, DEMOCRATS, Obama and his administration. They have Human Bodies, but inside them, total darkness, black. They have no light what so ever to shine out before men.
- Askjrsk
  
  We enjoy our President speaking to “we THE people “.
Brenda

Don’t even think of going there. There is no Trump against the 1st Amendment, but there are plenty of the liberal press far to willing to spread lies, misrepresentation, and false opinions or facts.
If as you state it is up to the reader to form their own conclusions, then why do you continually lie about the facts. And lie is what they do. When they can not even report accurately what Trump says, that smacks of a lie.
rhodag4

We as True Patriot Americans who stand with God and Country should NEVER refer to Obama as president – never and that ‘any’ American would vote for and or even consider voting for HC is Evil Personified! We have been living in an America which has ‘Cancer’ and at the same time, Obama and the Press have all sold their soul to Soros – Obama is just his puppet. But, the most frightening is that Americans Themselves Sold Their Soul to Evil – Sitting in the wings all these years, the Bushes as well – Evil to the Core!

Now, We as We The American Patriot People Must Become “A Watchful Eye” for our Country and that includes Trump! Are any of you aware that Trump is all reared up to give a prominent position to: Munchin – He worked for former Golden Sachs, who was Aligned with George Soros and SFM CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, OWNED BY SOROS. Why is Trump even considering Munchin and gave a quote, saying: This is a man that I want on my team to run our country! Check this out yourselves! He also just decided to give Governor Haley of South Carolina the Position of Ambassador to the UN! Haley has spoken against Trump and is ‘Tolerant’ for Islam Refugees. Look into her background. What is going on with Trump???? He also was definitive with his statement: I will clean out the swamp – now, he is having second thoughts!!

Trump is NOT OUR SAVIOR. He stated that he is not a politician and not for the establishment – now he is flip flopping – he is acting like a politician. We Must REMIND TRUMP OF HIS OATH TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND WHO PUT HIM INTO THE POSITION OF PRESIDENT ELECT. HE IS MAKING STATEMENT THAT WHEN OBAMA LEAVES, HE WILL BE ON THE GOLF COURSES – OF COURSE CONTINUING TO DO HIS EVIL DESTRUCTION. TRUMP MUST GO AFTER OBAMA AND CLINTON – THAT SHOULD BE A GIVEN!! Paul Ryan continues to be speaker of the house – why is Trump aligning with him????????????

GET RID OF THE ENTIRE ESTABLISHMENT – CLEAN THE SWAMP – PUT UP THE WALL – NO FENCES – THE WALL AND STICK TO WHAT YOU SAID TRUMP: WE LIVE AND BREATH AS AMERICANS – ONLY AMERICANS – NO ISLAM – NO MUSLIMS – NO OTHER IDEOLOGIES – WITH GOD AND COUNTRY AND ‘IN GOD WE TRUST.’ Rhoda Gelman
Pat Travitz

It is so laughable. If they were REAL Jouralist they would know how to interview/
They just print and talk about what they want to hear and it doesn’t work with
President-Elect Trump. LOL
river

We must not forget that the press is a business that needs to make money. With newspapers, falling with pathetic circulation, see themselves on the brink of insolvency, you can bet they’re gonna publish what makes them money and pays the bills. They resort to tabloid journalism: a hint of reality, but an intent and content of speculation, exaggeration, bias, and articles that stir the emotions and pointed at the liberally and emotionally underdeveloped. Sell papers, is the name of the game.
Michael Lamendola

trump is a liar, a criminal , a traitor and an idiot,. the media should crucify the POS and burn his bone sin public. i think he also should be waterboarded with bleach https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/42f64ee3d5c1f1f1a21092ebaccddc1a1ade5e2d776b39d8a5fed8bf241fbfeb.jpg
- KKmoderate
  
  That is a very sick post. It’s not acceptable to wish anyone a horrific and violent end. You must be a very disturbed and angry person. Too bad for you. I’d prefer, however, not to be subjected to such a violent rant.
  - Michael Lamendola
    
    listen to you you KKK moderate. lol. maybe I should have said we should all go out and burn some crosses on the lawns of jews and black folks. Is that acceptable level of violence for you?
    - KKmoderate
      
      You presume much about a person you don’t know. I have some advice for you from history:
      Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.
      — ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
      - Michael Lamendola
        
        good advice, kkk. perhaps you should heed it.
      - KKmoderate
        
        Ah but this proves my theory that you misinterpret the facts, yet again! You are so predictable.
      - Michael Lamendola
        
        my friend [and i use that term loosely], the quote you so proudly typed earlier is by mark twain and not abe lincoln. look it up and see the truth, but i guess you alreay knew I was going to figure out you fucked up the quote when you tried to embarrass me. that’s ok, i forgive you. peace amigo
      - KKmoderate
        
        So lost and arrogant and so misinformed: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/17/remain-silent/
      - Michael Lamendola
        
        kk, i know you know this already, but that quote you mentioned above is actually by mark twain. sorry.
      - Michael Lamendola
        
        the quote is by mark twain, not by lincoln…. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/919d56ce1bd3a78dc5605594f91e621056c41084d4391ad5c691937c21712d29.jpg
      - Michael Lamendola
        
        did u know that quote is from mark twain and not lincoln?
      - KKmoderate
        
        It’s origin is actually in some doubt but I attribute in order not to appear that I speak a quote of my own devise. So Mark Twain is questionable too☺
      - Michael Lamendola
        
        hardy. mark twain said it, not lincoln. please get your facts correct before spouiting off like some know it all,. lol
      - KKmoderate
        
        I guess arrogant spouting is your chief skill. Reading was your poor subject in school? I sent you the link, twice, on the research into the origin of that quote. It is unconfirmed. Like a good lib you just keep repeating the same mantra until, you hope, it becomes true. No room for new data? I’ll send it again in case your reading skills failed the first 2 times;
        http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/17/remain-silent/
        And please I’m tired of this discussion, people like you bore me.
      - Michael Lamendola
        
        let’s split it down the middle, i’ll be arrogant and you will be smug. that way both our egos get massaged. p.s. see ya later
Gary Von Neida

The press has been baised and without doubt deserves a millstone attesting to the shame of such bias hung around their collective necks.
Mustafa Curtess

More “damage control” – far short of their (traditional) purpose to “inform”. I abandoned the “media” decades ago – when it became painfully clear that its intent is to propagandize, vs to “inform”. I can’t forget the experience of battlefront CNN journalist Peter Arnett – when he reported facts of the US destruction of Iraq – that the Network’s Editors “just didn’t want to hear”. In that scenario – CNN was SHIELDING the Bush 2 administration from “Tough Questions”. (There WERE no “Weapons Of Mass Destruction” – and now we have “ISIS” as the direct result of that arrogant and mis-guided destruction of Iraq.) The only “enemies” we have around the world today – ar those that we have created ourselves. Our media has been fully complicit in this.
NoMoreMB

CNN, MSNBC, NYTimes, DailyNews, NBC, CBS, ABC, WSJ and their ilk are not considered news sources, they are considered pro-ISIS, anti-American propaganda and followed only to see what new bilge they’re spewing. We will never ever return to them for news regardless of what they do in the future. We don’t do Reddit for the same reason, use Voat instead.
NoMoreMB

As for Hollywood, we stopped all new movies in 2009 – don’t need it, plenty of other entertainment elsewhere.
WhiteFalcon

The “fact” is that the NYT and many other so called news outlets are nothing but biased jokes.
Skip Plummer

The dogs are all licking their wounds.
Gerri

What Mr. Trump said IS ,not only, troublesome IT’S TRUE!!!!! The media just hate the fact that ,FINALLY, someone has come out and challenged their dispicable behaviour. They are all so quick to print that Russia tried to influence our election but Russia can’t hold a candle to the tactics the media used. The problem they are having is THEIR TOTAL BIAS DID’NT WORK!!!!!
Nellie McConnell

The Liberal press didn’t go after Hillary and Obama on any of the issues that were covered up.
Obama’s birth certificate and school records, money given to Muslim Brotherhood, Syrians, Saudi Arabia, unvetted Refugees, open borders, Guns, planes and equipment Terrors countries, Releasing terrors and criminals, Obama’s 90 million vacations, Our embassy staff murdered by terrors and Obama and Hillary did nothing. Obama’s MUSLIM ties. Hillary’s ties to Muslim donated money to Clinton Foundation.
I stopped reading news paper 20 years ago. Obama should have been impeached years ago.
Michael Paul

WSJ is usually pretty fair and twitter is your own words. Ignore the rest of the msm because they are going to give you bad press no matter what you say. “Obama hands out millions to the poor – what a saint. Trump hands out millions to the poor – where is he getting the money to do this and what about the deficit?” THIS MY FRIENDS IS THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA.
Jim Johnson

With those attitudes they will see their readership continue it’s decline.
Michelle Minze-Bryant

They are just all crybabies because no one believes their BS any more. Well, those that voted for Trump, anyhow. Why didn’t they show all the thousands of people at his rallies? There’s where you KNOW he won, compared to the other guy. If they showed the big turn out at his rallies, then it would of been So evident that there’s no way he could just get 2% while Hillery got 98%.

What gets me, is they STILL can’t face facts that Trump won. Let the dead horse die, there’s no getting back on him. They need to come to grips with the real world and move on. Do they think reliving what is over and done with, going to help their ratings? Trump won, thus more people than not, don’t believe the lies the regular media put out there. The more they try to defend themselves, the more the majority of Trump voters won’t watch them, then not help their case any.

They obviously have lost sight how the earth revolves around the sun, and not them.
Lester Smith

They need to go out of business…Tabloids are more honest and respectable.
Michael Lamendola

hey kkmod, did you know that quote is from mark twain and not lincoln?
desert fox

It will be difficult for the liberal news media to turn around. They will continue to print everything negative about Trump and his administration. The truth is that nobody believes them and we see the media for what it is — a voice that is against everything that is good and positive in America and they glorify everything that is bad. We are not listening to you anymore. The people who are at the top of the barrel will be drowning in the slime that they really are as they sink lower and lower.
maxx

Trump has never once said or complained about being asked “tough” questions. What Trump complains about is the blatant political bias shown by the MSM. They don’t release any numbers but the suspicion of the public about liberal verses conservative media personnel count is probably not far off of 95% liberal and 5% conservative. WHERE IS THE EQUALITY YOU PEOPLE ALWAYS DEMAND? Only when you guys are outnumbered do you demand equality otherwise you could care less. Thankfully the internet is providing that balance so conservatives don’t have to both with NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN,PBS all owned and run by radical socialists.
Debra Shawver

Well..the MSM did nothing but lie, aid hillery and support her and give her softball ?s and trounce Trump….they are insignificant…they are the ones limiting free speech..by calling folks like me who have served their country deplorables….and supporting the demoncraps 10000% and their marxist globalist progressive views….
jim_wright

The things that should be making the media nervous is that Trump, among others, has pointed out their bias. A bias that is obvious to everyone in the country. A bias they are trying to divert attention from on one of the most biased networks and with one of the most biased media supposed news professionals today. The news media has a coveted place in this country, protected in our Constitution, however very few live up to that position. Most, including Chuck Todd, have become nothing but the propaganda arm of the Democrat party. I don’t trust the news media in this country.
Joseph Vanchieri

To say that the lame stream media is unbiased is like saying that water isn’t wet. They , without shame promoted and campaigned for Felonious Hillary Clinton. If your going to be “fair” you would put up negative and positive things about both characters. They did the opposite. Even knowing all the crimes she committed they overwhelmingly backed her while putting out nothing but negative reports on President elect Trump. Now they have the nerve to try and make it seem as if they did nothing wrong. I doubt that they will ever regain any credibility. They don’t deserve it.
Michael Lamendola

wow… this is worth reading:
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3259984-Trump-Intelligence-Allegations.html

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