Is every day Watergate Day in the anti-Trump media? At a London event, Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg said "every day is a kind of Watergate at this point," implying Trump was a crook like Richard Nixon. Brian Stelter celebrated this "Truth Tellers" summit of liberals congratulating themselves for valiantly fighting against the Trump menace.
Goldberg claimed, "I think we live in an authoritarian or incipient authoritarian kind of climate, but we still can publish what we want to publish." Trump is such an "incipient authoritarian" that he just granted Jeffrey Goldberg an interview at the 100-day mark, which Stelter failed to mention. That interview came after Goldberg had a field day attacking Trump after he was accidentally included in a Signal chat between Trump bigwigs discussing military strikes in Yemen.
As part of the self-congratulation, Stelter said some Americans left behind the “legacy media” because they believed Trump’s lies about the press. He added: "I don’t view myself as a fighter. I don’t think most reporters who are covering politics or media think they’re in the middle of a fight. And yet -- as Marty Baron famously said, ‘we’re not at war, we’re at work’ – if one side’s at war and the other side is not at war, the other sides loses. A pacifist always loses in a war. And so there is this incredibly difficult dynamic the press is in, because this time it’s not just words from Trump, it’s actions.”
They are in a difficult dynamic -- because Trump voters think they are hopeless partisan hacks, and the Biden-Harris voters think they are worthless because somehow they weren't fierce enough to prevent Trump from retaking the White House. They expect the media view to dominate and persuade the masses.
Conservatives and independents who don't trust the media anymore don't need Trump's opinion to gather their own opinion. It's not just how they punished Trump. It's how they pampered Biden -- especially by downplaying his mental decline. The latest scoop came on Sunday, that the Biden team pondered having Biden take a cognitive test, but decided that was too dangerous, regardless of the results. It wouldn't reflect confidence in Biden's abilities.
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