{"id":612,"date":"2013-02-07T01:46:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T01:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/07\/media-do-go-negative-on-obama"},"modified":"2013-02-07T01:46:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T01:46:00","slug":"media-do-go-negative-on-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=612","title":{"rendered":"Media do go negative on Obama"},"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>A Facebook friend of mine recently noted that America\u2019s \u201cgreatest president,\u201d Ronald Reagan, would be 102 today and lamented the economic course on which the nation has set under President Obama.<\/p>\n<p>I responded with a short note that questioned whether the economy has \u201ccollapsed,\u201d as he had said. Then a friend of <em>his<\/em> fired back a note, apparently challenging my assertion about the state of the economy, that noted the media report \u201cnothing negative\u201d about Obama. <\/p>\n<p>I could hardly hold back the laughter. <em>Of course<\/em> the media have reported plenty of negatives about the president: the jobless recovery, the tragedy that occurred last September in Benghazi, the mounting debt and budget deficit, the continuing war in Afghanistan, the president\u2019s failure to close Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba and \u2026 well, you get the point.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sure I\u2019ve missed someone\u2019s hot-button issue.<\/p>\n<p>But my intent is to suggest that the media haven\u2019t protected Obama from criticism. How do I know that? Consider all the negative comments that show up on social media outlets, on websites all across the Internet and the infinite sources of opinions being offered by commentators of all stripes. They all represent the \u201cmedia.\u201d The fact that these items are seen, heard and read by Americans, who then distribute them on social media outlets suggests to me that the media \u2013 liberal and conservative alike \u2013 are doing their job.<\/p>\n<p>Does the president have his friends in the media? Certainly he does, just as George W. Bush had his media allies. Every president dating back almost to the beginning of the Republic has cultivated his share of media friends and had to cope with his share of media foes.<\/p>\n<p>To suggest the current president is being sheltered, pampered and protected by the media illustrates a profound naivete.<\/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>A Facebook friend of mine recently noted that America\u2019s \u201cgreatest president,\u201d Ronald Reagan, would be 102 today and lamented the economic course on which the nation has set under President Obama. I responded with a short note that questioned whether the economy has \u201ccollapsed,\u201d as he had said. Then a friend of his fired back &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=612\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Media do go negative on Obama<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612","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=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}