{"id":10804,"date":"2018-07-27T15:07:08","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T19:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=10804"},"modified":"2018-07-27T15:07:08","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T19:07:08","slug":"what-we-the-media-have-learned-since-trumps-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/what-we-the-media-have-learned-since-trumps-election\/","title":{"rendered":"What we (the media) have learned since Trump\u2019s election"},"content":{"rendered":"

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SHARYL ATTKISSON<\/strong>
\nby sattkisson
\n7\/26\/2018<\/h3>\n

Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The following is a news analysis<\/strong><\/em><\/h5>\n

E<\/span>ighteen tumultuous months into the Trump presidency, there\u2019s one thing we\u2019ve learned about the media.<\/em><\/p>\n

For all our hand wringing over how badly we missed the forecast on Donald Trump\u2019s electability; for all the self-flagellation over obvious signs conveniently ignored; for all of our admissions that we\u2019d gotten so stuck in our own echo chamber, we couldn\u2019t see what was before our eyes; for all of our pledges to re-examine the way we report, seeking to peer outside the DC-New York City bubble; for our promises to listen rather than preach and to report rather than tell people what to think\u2014 we didn\u2019t mean it.<\/em><\/p>\n

A major event last week removed any doubt\u2014 the news coverage after President Trump\u2019s meeting with Russia President Vladimir Putin. One universal world view dominated. At best, the meeting and press conference were disasters or treacherous. At worst, Trump proved to be a downright traitor.<\/em><\/p>\n

To be clear, there\u2019s certainly nothing wrong with reporting those views. The problem is they were reported to the near-exclusion of opposing viewpoints. They were elevated beyond the realm of \u201copinion\u201d and given the status of indisputable fact.<\/em><\/p>\n

After a tsunami of media and establishment members of both political parties parroted the same prevailing view, often laced with venom and disgust, there didn\u2019t seem to be many willing to publicly step forward and argue the point. But it was an incomplete portrait of reality.<\/em><\/p>\n

For example, a longtime Democrat who is African-American and was an upper-tier government official in the Obama administration, who supported and donated to President Obama, contacted me after the Trump-Putin meeting. He told me he gets ridiculed by colleagues every time he \u201cacknowledges Trump\u2019s diplomatic talents.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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