In Tuesday’s New York Times, reporter Adam Goldman covered the shooting of a violent trespasser at a local television station in D.C., but tried hard to give it national anti-Trump implications and conflate it with the president's verbal attacks on the media. The anodyne headline masked the bias within: “Guard Shoots Trespasser At TV Station.”
Goldman couldn’t let a single sentence pass without involving Trump’s fights with the press, even though the incident (at a local affiliate of the liberal-loathed Fox News) had nothing to do with Trump’s cries of “fake news” or his insult of the press as an “enemy of the people.”
A security guard shot and wounded a man who forced his way into a local television station, the police said Monday, stoking renewed fears that journalists have become targets in a highly polarized political environment.
The shooting occurred about 3 p.m. at WTTG Fox 5’s building in Northwest Washington when the irate man kicked his way through two sets of glass doors to enter the lobby, the police said.
In the lobby, the man was confronted by a security guard employed by the station. The guard fired her weapon, striking the man apparently in the torso. The man was not armed, the police said. Nobody else was injured.
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The police said the man, 38, whom they declined to identify, was conscious and in stable condition when he was taken to a hospital. His motive was unknown, but he appeared to be angry and agitated at the time of the attack, Mr. Sternbeck said.
Then the reporter rehashed in detail an older attack on a local newspaper in Maryland, in a pathetic attempt to create a pattern to attack Trump.
The shooting at the station comes almost four months after a man stormed a newspaper in Annapolis, Md., and opened fire with a shotgun. The chilling attack killed five people and left the world of journalism reeling.
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President Trump condemned the newsroom shooting and offered his condolences, but he has often portrayed the news media as the “enemy of the people.”
After the shooting, the publisher of The New York Times, A. G. Sulzberger, said in a statement that he told the president in a private meeting that his “language was not just divisive but increasingly dangerous.”
But Mr. Trump has kept up his attacks. At a political rally last week, he praised a Republican congressional candidate’s assault on a reporter last year.
