{"id":35888,"date":"2019-03-09T16:32:52","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T16:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35888"},"modified":"2019-03-09T16:32:52","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T16:32:52","slug":"trump-keeps-making-media-the-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35888","title":{"rendered":"Trump keeps making media the &#8216;story&#8217;"},"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>I long have considered it a terrible journalistic sin for the media to become part of the story they are covering.<\/p>\n<p>I worked in the media for nearly four decades and I managed over that span of time to steer clear of any discussion of an issue I was covering. Occasionally an organization that employed me would get entangled in the story; they would manage to wriggle themselves free.<\/p>\n<p>The Age of Trump has produced an entirely different dynamic.<\/p>\n<p>He labels the media the &#8220;enemy of the people.&#8221; His followers buy into it. They demonstrate in front of cable, broadcast and print reporters seeking only to do their job.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s getting weird to watch the news these days and hear all these references to cable networks involved so deeply in the covering of current events. For instance:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fox News Channel has been banned from Democratic primary presidential debates because it has become a virtual arm of the Trump administration. Its commentators are known to be in constant communication with Donald Trump, reportedly offering policy advice to the president.<\/li>\n<li>CNN, MSNBC are on the other end of the spectrum. Their commentators take great delight in chastising their colleagues at Fox. Meanwhile, Fox fires back at their competitors\/colleagues. Oh, and the president hangs &#8220;fake news&#8221; labels on all media that report news that he finds disagreeable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It all reminds of an athletic event where the attention turns to the referee. You want to concentrate on the athletes, not the individuals who discern whether they&#8217;re breaking the rules.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re concentrating increasingly on the media reporting of the issues at hand, and less so on the actual issues that are being discussed.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a distressing trend that appears &#8212; to my way of thinking &#8212; to have no possible exit for the media.<\/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>I long have considered it a terrible journalistic sin for the media to become part of the story they are covering. I worked in the media for nearly four decades and I managed over that span of time to steer clear of any discussion of an issue I was covering. Occasionally an organization that employed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35888\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump keeps making media the &#8216;story&#8217;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35630,"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":[1043,1406,1424,6969,1788,3155,3967],"class_list":["post-35888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-news","tag-cnn","tag-dnc","tag-donald-trump","tag-enemy-of-the-people","tag-fox-news","tag-msnbc","tag-rnc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35888","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=35888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35889,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35888\/revisions\/35889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}