{"id":21512,"date":"2017-05-06T03:16:48","date_gmt":"2017-05-06T03:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21512"},"modified":"2017-05-06T03:16:48","modified_gmt":"2017-05-06T03:16:48","slug":"trump-assails-media-yet-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21512","title":{"rendered":"Trump assails media yet again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/BBANdIp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21513\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/BBANdIp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"152\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Why is it that the Fake News rarely reports Ocare is on its last legs and that insurance companies are fleeing for their lives? It&#8217;s dead!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That, dear reader, is one of Donald J. Trump&#8217;s latest tweets in a Twitter tirade he launched late today against the national news media.<\/p>\n<p>I find it fascinating.<\/p>\n<p>The president accuses the media of failing to report that the Affordable Care Act is collapsing.<\/p>\n<p>Excuse me, Mr. President?<\/p>\n<p>Trump and his allies keep saying it. The media keep reporting it. It&#8217;s no longer a novel notion.<\/p>\n<p>I happen to disagree with the president&#8217;s assertion about the ACA. Isn&#8217;t that fair enough? He&#8217;s entitled to his opinion, while others are entitled to theirs &#8212; even if they are at odds with what the president says or believes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/trump-attacks-news-media-over-obamacare-repeal-coverage\/ar-BBAN8zP?li=BBmkt5R&amp;ocid=spartandhp\">The road ahead <\/a>for the bill that the House approved to replace the ACA remains full of land mines. The U.S. Senate isn&#8217;t likely to adopt the House&#8217;s version of health care overhaul.<\/p>\n<p>The media&#8217;s job is to report the progress of that journey regardless of whether it&#8217;s positive news or negative news for the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>You can bet your last nickel, though, that the media are reporting precisely what the president is saying, which includes pronouncements about the future of the Affordable Care Act.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why is it that the Fake News rarely reports Ocare is on its last legs and that insurance companies are fleeing for their lives? It&#8217;s dead! That, dear reader, is one of Donald J. Trump&#8217;s latest tweets in a Twitter tirade he launched late today against the national news media. I find it fascinating. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21512\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump assails media yet again<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11,13],"tags":[164,1424,6712,2858],"class_list":["post-21512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","category-medical-news","category-national-news","tag-affordable-care-act","tag-donald-trump","tag-fake-news","tag-mainstream-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21514,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21512\/revisions\/21514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}