I'll bet you nobody would even listen to Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite nowadays.
I'll bet you nobody would even listen to Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite nowadays.
"... seemed to incite violence and racial tensions"? "... seeming encouragement of violence toward protesters"? Why, because he says he's not? His own words: "If you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them. Just knock the hell — I promise you, I'll pay the legal fees." How is that just "seeming" to encourage violence? Is the media bending over so far backward now to counter the bloviation about bias that they'll justify anything not to call it out?
The second link is the apparently incendiary opinion piece Cokie Roberts and her husband wrote. It's spicy reading, let me tell you, don't let the kids see it. Not.
P.S. She has been involved in questionable bias things in the past that would worry me a lot more than saying Donald Trump is a lousy potential President. In fact, discussing someone's qualifications for the job ought to be part of the reporting, imho.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/03/14/470340825/npr-clarifies-cokie-roberts-role-after-anti-trump-column
http://www.uexpress.com/cokie-and-steven-roberts/2016/2/24/stopping-trump----now
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/03/14/470340825/npr-clarifies-cokie-roberts-role-after-anti-trump-column
"... seemed to incite violence and racial tensions"? "... seeming encouragement of violence toward protesters"? Why, because he says he's not? His own words: "If you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them. Just knock the hell — I promise you, I'll pay the legal fees." How is that just "seeming" to encourage violence? Is the media bending over so far backward now to counter the bloviation about bias that they'll justify anything not to call it out?
The second link is the apparently incendiary opinion piece Cokie Roberts and her husband wrote. It's spicy reading, let me tell you, don't let the kids see it. Not.
P.S. She has been involved in questionable bias things in the past that would worry me a lot more than saying Donald Trump is a lousy potential President. In fact, discussing someone's qualifications for the job ought to be part of the reporting, imho.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/03/14/470340825/npr-clarifies-cokie-roberts-role-after-anti-trump-column
http://www.uexpress.com/cokie-and-steven-roberts/2016/2/24/stopping-trump----now
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/03/14/470340825/npr-clarifies-cokie-roberts-role-after-anti-trump-column
I get it, but bottom line he's hardly advocating choosing something other than violence and repeatedly using some form of "to seem" suggests he might be doing something other than. Which is some of the most disingenuous twaddle, ever. I mean, fine, say he's advocating responding to violence with violence (like 5 year olds arguing over who started it), but at least be honest in your reporting.
ReplyDelete"Almost certainly, the first job of the new president will be to pick Scalia's replacement, which will affect the court's balance for a generation."
ReplyDeleteUm, OR it's the job of the currently sitting president, like the Constitution SAYS it is, Cokie. WTFever.