OPINION
The media’s blatant hypocrisy — even about media-bashing
By Karol Markowicz
August 13, 2018 | 7:54pm | Updated
Brian Stelter
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Welcome to the age of self-congratulatory media. “Democracy dies in darkness” goes the ridiculous tagline on the Washington Post’s front page. Reporters openly call themselves heroes and firefighters.
Yet when it doesn’t fit the standard left-wing narrative, our Guardians of the Galaxy are MIA.
On Sunday, the Unite the Right II rally of white supremacists fizzled out. Antifa demonstrators in Charlottesville, Va., who gathered to mark the anniversary of the first Unite the Right rally, threw eggs at Secret Service, were arrested for assaulting a man wearing a Make America Great Again hat, launched fireworks and smoke bombs at police and assaulted NBC reporter Cal Perry. Perry had his camera knocked out of his hands while the protester screamed profanities at him.
The story appears on various media sites, and several reporters tweeted about the attack, but the outrage was muted. Instead, nearly every outlet went out of their way to gently describe the antifa mob. The headlines at CNN, the New York Times and the Washington Post made sure to call the group “anti-hate protesters.”
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READ MORE: https://nypost.com/2018/08/13/the-blatant-media-hypocrisy-even-about-media-bashing/
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Donald Trump didn’t invent deep mistrust of the media, he merely capitalized on it. Over 70 percent of Americans think traditional media outlets report news they know to be fake. News consumers see media folks worrying about threats that don’t exist while ignoring actual incidents of violence by people the media doesn’t wish to offend.
It should be very easy to care about the physical assault of a fellow journalist. It should be quite simple to defend local news from a power-hungry wannabe authoritarian mayor. But you’d have to be dedicated to the industry instead of your ideology — and this week we learned just how many in the press choose the latter when the two conflict.
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