{"id":26829,"date":"2017-12-12T00:20:09","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T00:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26829"},"modified":"2017-12-12T00:21:19","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T00:21:19","slug":"press-aide-goes-for-the-throat-against-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26829","title":{"rendered":"Press aide goes for the throat against media"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Now she’s done it.<\/p>\n

Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the fiery White House press secretary, has now accused journalists and their bosses of “deliberately” reporting false news stories to advance an agenda.<\/p>\n

Think of this for a moment. This is the White House’s front person with the media, the person who is supposed to develop a healthy professional relationship with those who report on the goings-on within the White House.<\/p>\n

And by “healthy,” I don’t mean necessarily an always-positive relationship. “Healthy” implies that a certain two-way respect between sources and those who report on what they say and do.<\/p>\n

The media-White House relationship should be listed in critical condition. At best.<\/p>\n

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I am presuming that Sanders is speaking for Donald John Trump when she makes such hideous assertions. What she has done on the president’s behalf is accuse these professional journalists of violating the very tenets they vowed to uphold when they signed on to their craft.<\/p>\n

Sanders said the media are “purposefully misleading the American people” by publishing and broadcasting reports that reporters and editors know are false.<\/p>\n

I toiled in journalism for nearly four decades. Did I make mistakes while reporting the news? Sure I did. Did I correct them? Yes. Were any of them the result of some intent to advance a political agenda? Never.<\/p>\n

I know I am speaking only for myself. I cannot know how others did their job, except that I always have accepted that other mainstream journalists adhered to a pledge that they would report truthfully and fairly.<\/p>\n

To hear the White House press secretary assert that White House beat reporters are acting with deceit and dishonor is beyond offensive.<\/p>\n\n

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Now she’s done it. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the fiery White House press secretary, has now accused journalists and their bosses of “deliberately” reporting false news stories to advance an agenda. Think of this for a moment. This is the White House’s front person with the media, the person who is supposed to develop a healthy … Continue reading Press aide goes for the throat against media<\/span> →<\/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],"tags":[1424,2858,7207,5249],"class_list":["post-26829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-mainstream-media","tag-sarah-huckabee-sanders","tag-white-house-press-office"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26829","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=26829"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26832,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26829\/revisions\/26832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}