It is amazing to witness how the people of
the United Kingdom and the United States react so differently to their leaders.
Presently, the British, no matter whether they are Liberals or Conservatives,
are supporting Boris Johnson as he lays in the hospital in intensive care, and
unable to directly lead his people through the current CV-19 crisis.
Conversely, there is a huge disconnect
between Democrats and Republicans, Liberals and Conservatives, and how each
group reacts to the efforts of President Trump and his direct leadership as
he leads the United States through the crisis.
Why is that? Could it be how each country’s media reports
on its country’s leadership? After all,
PM Johnson and his Government is a Conservative entity, and as here in the US,
its media is predominately Liberal. Yet, for some reason, the media in the US cannot bring itself to
drop its hatred for President Trump and react as fairly as its counterpart is acting in Great Britain.
Hmmm…
Could it be that the US media, as a collective entity, does not know how to be fair? After
all, the face of today’s current media is
none other than that dumb@$$ clown Jim Acosta. Even ABC’s Jonathon
Karl has, in his memoir, "Front Row at the Trump Show,"
claimed that Acosta was "playing
into the explicit Trump strategy of portraying the press as the opposition
party."
"The surest way to undermine the
credibility of the White House press corps is to behave like the political
opposition," Karl wrote. "Don't
give speeches from the White House briefing room."
“Regarding Jim Acosta, to
paraphrase Voltaire, I will defend to the death his right to report from the
White House, but I have some issues with the style in which he has done so. We
can be tough, we can call out things that are not true, we can be aggressive in
our questioning, but I don’t think we should act like we are part of the
resistance.”
Perhaps other
members of the White House Correspondents Association should take a lesson for
Mr. Karl and not from Clown Acosta.
As you know, I am not a conservative or a Republican, nor would you say I was
liberal. I read several different publications so I can decide for myself from
the information I read, what I think about each issue, as I apply what I learned to my own moral
and ethical standards fairly. While
Mr. Karl is not a reporter who one would say is in the President’s corner, I have generally found him to be fair in his treatment. That is all
one could ask from the media, like they are doing in Great Britain.
I have seen memes on Facebook and
other places saying we would be better
off if the media would “shelter in
place and not come out” until this crisis is over. I disagree. We need our
free press to report the latest on ANY issue to keep us informed.
But, as I learned in my Journalism
classes many years ago as I minored in this subject, “a free press, in order to remain free and
be trusted, must also report its story fairly.”
Perhaps, the rest of the media
could learn a lesson from its sister British entity. And read Mr. Karl’s book.
I know I will.
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