The Liberal Cult Media is sinking
and some are heading for the lifeboats.
The Mainstream
Media is obviously skewed to the left. But I guess there are even limits to how
biased they want to appear.
The New York Times has
banned it’s reporters from making any appearances on “The Rachel Maddow Shows,”
as they deem her to be too extreme and don’t want to be associated with her.
“MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow
Show” has been hit with a serious one-two punch. One day after finishing May
with its worst ratings since Donald Trump took office, the lefty
pundit’s eponymous program faced a Vanity Fair bombshell report that
the New York Times didn’t want its reporters appearing on Maddow’s
show, not because her ratings were down, but because she was too far left, even
for them.
“On Sunday, May
19, New York
Times finance
editor David Enrich got a request from a producer at MSNBC to appear on Rachel Maddow’s show the following night. Enrich had a
red-hot front-page story for Monday’s paper,
about anti-money-laundering specialists at Deutsche Bank flagging suspicious
transactions involving Donald Trump and Jared Kushner and Maddow wanted to bring
him on air to talk about it.”
“Enrich said yes, but after
mentioning the planned appearance to the Times’s communications
department, he was told he would have to retroactively decline. The reason?
The Times was wary of how
viewers might perceive a down-the-middle journalist like Enrich talking
politics with a mega-ideological host like Maddow. The producer, who was
informed that the Times asks members of the newsroom not to appear on opinionated
shows to discuss political subjects, was miffed about the cancellation, sources
said. Enrich declined to comment. An MSNBC spokesman said, “For over a
decade, The
Rachel Maddow Show has welcomed the best journalists from across the country
and celebrated the hard work they do, day-in and day-out. This includes
countless New York Times reporters and editors. That commitment to journalism is
part of the DNA of the show.”
“Accuracy in Media national
editor Carrie Sheffield feels that Maddow has long “ignored basic journalistic,
fact-checking practices and the presumption of innocence in our legal system by
relentlessly pushing unproven conspiracy theories about supposed Russian
collusion” and her “lapse in journalistic balance” is part of why Americans
have declining trust in the national media and why some reporters appear to be
distancing themselves from her show.
“This was a long
time coming, and we hope MSNBC will allow for greater balance moving forward.
We hope that Maddow’s programming will include substantive fact-checking,
balanced debate and dialogue, rather than an echo-chamber monologue that
further divides Left and Right,” Sheffield told Fox News. “Americans deserve
better.”
“It’s not just Maddow.
The Times has
come to “prefer,” as sources put it, that its reporters steer clear of any cable-news
shows that the masthead perceives as too partisan…” “It’s not clear how many
shows fall under that umbrella in the eyes of Times brass, but two others that
definitely do are Lawrence O’Donnell’s
and Don Lemon’s, according to people
familiar with management’s thinking. Hannity’s or Tucker Carlson’s shows
would likewise make the cut, but it’s not like Times reporters ever do those anyway.”
This is a step
in the right direction. For too long the MSM has been sticking together
supporting the radical anti-trump narrative. They should have been sticking to
the facts in the first place. It’s nice to see that at least the New York Times
wants to get back to fact-based journalism. That seems to be a rarity in this
day and age.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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