Media colluding against Trump

Eddie Scarry:
Members of the news media are increasingly working together as they try to turn up the heat on President Trump's White House.

On Thursday, more than 100 newspapers around the country are set to publish editorials in a coordinated push back against Trump’s repeated complaints of “fake news” and his remark that many in the press are the “enemy of the people."

The Boston Globe initiated the campaign, and contacted local and national papers around the country to get them to join the effort.

“We have some big newspapers, but the majority are from smaller markets, all enthusiastic about standing up to Trump's assault on journalism,” Boston Globe’s deputy editorial page editor Marjorie Pritchard told CNN on Saturday.

But coordination within the press is going beyond the staging of op-eds. Liberal New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman suggested last week that the media should work together on a new way to cover Trump's mega-rallies, where the president often ridicules reporters who are collectively covering the event, usually in an elevated pen so that cameras can get a clear shot.

“No question that the press should not allow itself to be props at Trump’s rallies, and that can be dealt with by using a single pool camera that feeds all the networks, or reporters just sitting among the rally attendees, not in a special pen,” wrote Friedman.
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I don't think Trump will have any trouble ridiculing their new approach.  In fact, I think he can use it to make his case that they are being unfair and therefore should be ignored or rebuked.   They are proving his point that they do not treat him fairly.

Here is an idea.  Normalize Trump and treat him fairly.  If you did that, he would have less reason o ridicule you and you would have more credibility in dealing with him.  Your obvious hatred has become a Trump asset.

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