Liberal Journalists Rediscover Mission As Obama Leaves Office

Posted: January 16, 2017 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Censorship, Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News, White House | Tags: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Family of Barack Obama, Josh Earnest, President of the United States, RUSSIA, White House, White House Press Secretary |Leave a comment

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‘Everyone should be ashamed’

Peter Hasson reports: The end of Barack Obama’s eight years in office combined with an incoming Trump administration has liberal journalists placing a renewed importance on holding elected officials accountable.

In an article published Monday, Politico’s Jack Shafer argues that Donald Trump has made reporters “free” to cover the presidency in a more aggressively critical manner than they did during previous administrations.

Reporters, Shafer says, “ought to start thinking of covering Trump’s Washington like a war zone.”

Let’s fix this headline: Trump Is Making Journalists … Do Their Job Again? https://t.co/xUdAPMUFld

— Rachel Stoltzfoos (@RachelStoltz) January 16, 2017

“Witness how many publications are selling subscriptions by promising to ‘hold Trump accountable,’” Shafer adds later, arguing that “It’s not winter that’s coming with the inauguration of Trump. It’s journalistic spring.”

[Read the full story here, at The Daily Caller]

Liberal media members on Twitter received Shafer’s rediscovery of journalistic purpose with enthusiastic applause.

A man reads newspaper headlines in Athens, Greece July 8, 2015. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis

“Hear, hear! Has there ever been a more interesting time to be a reporter?” Politico’s Josh Dawsey cheered.

Clara Jeffrey, editor-in-chief of the left-wing Mother Jones, wrote: “Yes: Cover Trump admin the way you would a war zone.”

The New York Times’ Timothy Egan called Shafer’s article a “Great call to arms,” adding: “A journalistic spring under Trump if press can regain its indy soul.”

Egan’s colleague at the Times, Farhad Manjoo deemed the article “so good.”

Shafer’s article comes as liberal news organizations are embracing a more adversarial approach in their White House coverage…(read more)

Source: The Daily Caller