Barely a Press to Speak Of

[angrychair]

Why has HuffPost caved. Before the election, they used to end every article about Trump with this:

Editor’s note: Donald Trump regularly incites political violence and is a serial liar,rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist and birther who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims — 1.6 billion members of an entire religion — from entering the U.S.

Now they do not...why? He is still the very same person but they changed after the election.

The weakness of our press is appalling. They are all meeting with the fascist today to discuss things "off the record" I'm thinking they have barely been on the record at all.

[Raine1967]

1. This was a directive from Arianna Huffington herself.

I have a few journalism friends that work there and they understood what she was doing during the primaries and the campaign.

And I need to reinforce this as this is important:

They are Journalists. The friends that I spoke with about the statement made them feel like they were being forced to editorialize their articles from the Editor in Chief.

They -- at my time of responding to you -- haven't caved. My friends (one who is a fairly senior political reporter and I want to keep the name anonymous) have not caved.


HuffPo is actually reporting who showed up today:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-network-anchors-meeting_us_583333f6e4b058ce7aac3fc0

ABC News: “Good Morning America” co-host George Stephanopoulos, “World News Tonight” anchor David Muir, chief global affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz

NBC News: President Deborah Turness, “NBC Night News” host Lester Holt, “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd

CBS News: “Face the Nation” host John Dickerson, “CBS This Morning” co-hosts Charlie Rose, Norah O’Donnell and Gayle King, Washington bureau chief Christopher Isham

Fox News: Co-presidents Bill Shine and Jack Abernethy, EVP of news and editorial Jay Wallace, and executive Jay Wallace and EVP Suzanne Scott

CNN: President Jeff Zucker and anchors Wolf Blitzer and Erin Burnett

MSNBC: President Phil Griffin

[Vinca]

2. Didn't Arianna sell her interest in HuffPo to AOL?

There came a point where it took a turn rightward.

[Raine1967]

5. That happened years ago.

before Andrew Breitbart passed away.

HuffPo never turned right.

[angrychair]

3. With all due respect

It sure seems that way. They used to call him out and now they do not.
It is the exception to the rule when any of these news agencies ask actual questions and ask actual follow-up questions. It's becoming very common for them to have trump surrogates monologue unchallenged for up to several minutes and then move on with no actual questions or follow-up challenging what are often poorly worded or thought out perspectives.

They, willingly or not, are devolving into little more than propaganda tools.

Not asking for a "liberal" media, just an honest one.

[Raine1967]

4. And what I am telling you, WRT to the source (huffpo) that you speak of...

they are.

I shared a link calling him & other media sources out.

Don't let a footnote at the end of an article about *rump being left off become akin to them not calling trump out.