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In reply to the discussion: Boy what a difference between Rachel's overview of Mary Trump's book, and Maggie Haberman's [View all]Kid Berwyn
(24,821 posts)33. Journalists have an obligation under the Constitution...
From publishers to the interns in the mail room, tell the truth as you see it. Unfortunately, the business of journalism makes obfuscation of the conservative hypocrisy routine. Thankfully, their words stand as witnesses.
Right message, wrong messenger: NYTs Peter Baker decries the normalization of Trumps presidency
Dan Froomkin
PressWatchers.org, June 20, 2020
In Fridays New York Times, the papers White House bureau chief, Peter Baker, tut-tutted the normalization of Donald Trumps presidency as if he himself, along with his colleagues, werent among the people most responsible for it.
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I try hard not to take strong positions on public issues even in private For me, its easier to stay out of the fray if I never make up my mind, even in the privacy of the kitchen or the voting booth, that one candidate is better than another, that one side is right and the other wrong.
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https://presswatchers.org/2020/06/right-message-wrong-messenger-nyts-peter-baker-decries-the-normalization-of-trumps-presidency/
I am sorry to have posted a falsehood, Cha. I misheard someone on MSNBC say Haberman and Baker were married.
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Boy what a difference between Rachel's overview of Mary Trump's book, and Maggie Haberman's [View all]
still_one
Jul 2020
OP
Yup! A really second rate journalist..if that. Lacks any intuitive skills, flat uninteresting op eds
Thekaspervote
Jul 2020
#36
Which is untrue. That Mary Trump gave the boxes of family files from the trump lawyer to the
still_one
Jul 2020
#22
Absolutely. That Mary Trump had those boxes of evidence from the family lawyer that
still_one
Jul 2020
#19
I agree. I have a feeling lot of the reporting will be around the SAT test, but that isn't even the
still_one
Jul 2020
#27