Conservative outlet Fox News and its liberal counterpart MSNBC took Macron live.
Their TV reporting and Twitter feed summed up the speech as largely a mocking condemnation of Trump on climate change, reading, "French President Emmanuel Macron, addressing a joint session of Congress: 'We have to work together let us work together to make our planet great again.'".
Indeed Macron did have some artfully veiled criticisms of President Trump and his policies, but the fact that CNN would not risk carrying the speech live lest Americans witness the many kind words the French president expressed, exposes the news network as more activist than journalist.
We should not be surprised when news media outlets operate outside of their charters, but news consumers need to learn to spot it.
On Tuesday, CNN's Cillizza spent a segment dissecting a picture of the French and American presidents with their spouses.
Cillizza picked apart everyone's finger placement, Melania's hat and made some other vacuous observations, even managing to work in Gene Simmons from the rock group KISS. MSNBC also turned from news coverage to childish lampooning when host Nicolle Wallace made a crude inference about all the physicality on display between Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron, sniffing, "I've not seen him touch Melania that many times."
Highly paid journalists are routinely serving up nonsense instead of news if it is the kind of news that might benefit this president.
http://www.bostonherald.com/opinion/editorials/2018/04/editorial_anti_trump_bias_on_display
Their TV reporting and Twitter feed summed up the speech as largely a mocking condemnation of Trump on climate change, reading, "French President Emmanuel Macron, addressing a joint session of Congress: 'We have to work together let us work together to make our planet great again.'".
Indeed Macron did have some artfully veiled criticisms of President Trump and his policies, but the fact that CNN would not risk carrying the speech live lest Americans witness the many kind words the French president expressed, exposes the news network as more activist than journalist.
We should not be surprised when news media outlets operate outside of their charters, but news consumers need to learn to spot it.
On Tuesday, CNN's Cillizza spent a segment dissecting a picture of the French and American presidents with their spouses.
Cillizza picked apart everyone's finger placement, Melania's hat and made some other vacuous observations, even managing to work in Gene Simmons from the rock group KISS. MSNBC also turned from news coverage to childish lampooning when host Nicolle Wallace made a crude inference about all the physicality on display between Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron, sniffing, "I've not seen him touch Melania that many times."
Highly paid journalists are routinely serving up nonsense instead of news if it is the kind of news that might benefit this president.
http://www.bostonherald.com/opinion/editorials/2018/04/editorial_anti_trump_bias_on_display
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