A loose network of conservative operatives allied with the White House is pursuing what they say will be an aggressive operation to discredit news organizations deemed hostile to President Trump by publicizing damaging information about journalists.
The group, so far, has been responsible for the firing of a CNN photo editor who liked to tweet anti-Semitic stuff in his free time and it unearthed racist and anti-Semitic writings by a New York Times politics editor named Tom Wright-Piersanti.
Using journalistic techniques to target journalists and news organizations as retribution for - or as a warning not to pursue - coverage critical of the president is fundamentally different from the well-established role of the news media in scrutinizing people in positions of power.
Tension between a president and the news media that covers him is nothing new, Mr. Downie added.
Wide-scale political effort to intentionally humiliate journalists and others who work for media outlets is.
"It's one thing for Spiro Agnew to call everyone in the press 'nattering nabobs of negativism,'" he said, referring to the former vice president's famous critique of how journalists covered President Richard M. Nixon.
A. G. Sulzberger, the publisher of The Times, said in a statement that such tactics were taking the president's campaign against a free press to a new level.
https://www.redstate.com/streiff/2019/08/25/conservative-group-started-making-journalists-play-new-rules-journalists-terrified-whats-coming/
The group, so far, has been responsible for the firing of a CNN photo editor who liked to tweet anti-Semitic stuff in his free time and it unearthed racist and anti-Semitic writings by a New York Times politics editor named Tom Wright-Piersanti.
Using journalistic techniques to target journalists and news organizations as retribution for - or as a warning not to pursue - coverage critical of the president is fundamentally different from the well-established role of the news media in scrutinizing people in positions of power.
Tension between a president and the news media that covers him is nothing new, Mr. Downie added.
Wide-scale political effort to intentionally humiliate journalists and others who work for media outlets is.
"It's one thing for Spiro Agnew to call everyone in the press 'nattering nabobs of negativism,'" he said, referring to the former vice president's famous critique of how journalists covered President Richard M. Nixon.
A. G. Sulzberger, the publisher of The Times, said in a statement that such tactics were taking the president's campaign against a free press to a new level.
https://www.redstate.com/streiff/2019/08/25/conservative-group-started-making-journalists-play-new-rules-journalists-terrified-whats-coming/
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