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Ever Get the Feeling You’ve Been Cheated, Jake?
Jake, for some time now, you’ve been one of the few mainstream media reporters I could tolerate, because you seemed like you played it straight. I may not always agree with how you presented the news, but it seemed like you took the time to try to understand both sides and let that understanding guide your stories.
So my question for you is this: When did you find out that a Broward County Sheriff’s Deputy stood by at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and did nothing as 17 children were slaughtered? Was it before the town hall, or after it? Would have moderated this Two Minutes Hate had you known that it was cowardice that led to this slaughter, not one particular style of gun? Would you have let Sheriff Lobo Israel run roughshod over Dana Loesch knowing that the incompetency of his department had a direct impact on the scope of the slaughter?
When did you know these things, Jake, and would it have mattered?
You went full Candy Crowley, Jake. Never go full Candy Crowley.
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Not only this, but now there appears to be a credible allegation that his producer attempted to script questions for the “town hall,” and there is undisputed evidence that Tapper sat still and did nothing to control the crowd (or the questioners) from behaving in an uncontrolled and often vile manner.
Donald Trump has made the notion of journalists playing it straight obsolete.
The Trump era has removed all pretense of journalistic objectivity, in fact playing it straight may brand you a Trumpkin, a fate which would certainly cause you to lose standing in the MSM community, and may even cost you your livelihood.
#faketownhall
Kevin,
Jake is a left-wing weasel like all of the other left-wing weasels. He is CNN, forget it.
Regards,
Jim
The point is well taken but, if I may humbly stray off topic for a moment, to view this as a recent phenomenon and a “Trump”-specific effect is to not take advantage of the clarity now available (via their own voluntary and oh-so-arrogant reaction to Mr. Trump) to assess past performance. From my perspective over almost thirty years as as “news junkie” (you should see the stacks of pre-internet newspaper clippings I have stored in the filing cabinets) the removal you reference became clear to all who were willing to see during the Clinton presidential campaign of 1992. And I’m sure wiser neighbors here can trace this back even further.
Journalism has been dead for a long time and the frauds that occupy the desks within the rotting husks of those institutions have been at war with “us” for a long, long time.
I believe the terminology is advocacy journalism.
Kevin, you are not alone in considering Jake Tapper as one of the few tolerable reporters because he exhibited some sense of fairness.
His handling of the rally that had been falsely advertised as a “town hall” put at least a big dent in his credibility, and will probably create major damage to his ability to interview people. If he did this himself, then he deserves the hit to his career.
If, however, he was forced to do this by the network (the presence of the head of the network suggests that may be the case), he should be livid at his employer for having to sacrifice his career for a one time spike in ratings.
And a fine example of an oxymoron.
When there seems to be a need to place modifiers onto basic, stand alone concepts, well…maybe it is just dressing up a rotting husk (forgive my reuse of the term so soon and in the same conversation). The unfortunate example “compassionate conservative” comes to mind.
Social Justice.
I could never get it through my parents’ and mother in law’s head that just because it was reported on TV didn’t mean it was true. I’ve had no TV for 30 + years and am also a news junkie. My MIL and parents would tell me something that had been proven false days before.
Which unfortunately means my father went to his grave believing I had been to a McCain/Palin rally and sat among people who would yell “kill him” , referring to Obama.
You can’t cheat an honest man.
How ’bout ‘yellow advocacy journalism’ – sensational journalism with a huuuge helping of bias
Annefy, I am so sorry that happened to you.
When Tapper reports on guns, remember that he worked for Handgun Control, Inc. (now the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence).
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/23/politics/parkland-school-shooting-broward-deputies/index.html not just 1 sheriff, it appears now that there were 3 more hiding behind their cars.
It was tough. My dad came dangerously close to calling me a racist because I didn’t vote for Obama. My MIL and (then) good friend had no problem doing so.
I’m really sorry for your loss and the lies that made it even worse.
Y’all aren’t going to make me hunt down all Jake Tapper’s outright lies after Benghazi, are you? I have a few stored on my PC, the rest of them are bookmarked along with thousands of other items. The scales that were already falling from eyes skidded down right into the sewer during the Benghazi aftermath.
Question; Was Jake Tapper curious about “Fast and Furious”?
Jake Tapper was passingly curious
Of the scandal we call ‘Fast & Furious’
‘Til he saw that loose talk ‘ll
Make worse the debacle
And his party might find that injurious
He should not have done any of it. Period. Whether forced, stumbled into or, more likely, gleefully deliberate, he should simply resign.
There are so few “journalists” in the MSM that have even a scintilla of integrity that Jake Tapper has gained an outsized reputation on the right for fairness. This reputation is based on a handful of incidents when he stated the most obvious truths that ran counter to progressive orthodoxy. But it is still a failing grade.
That’s probably not quite true. You can’t con an honest man.
Annefy, you need to cut your losses and abandon CA.
Indeed.
This is absolutely correct. He just lost a lot of respect it took him years to earn.
Do they have Peterson on suicide watch? I mean, wouldn’t you be? What must it be like to wake up as him, now? And there are others? I was going to say “every man’s nightmare:” fair to say?
Right on! I used to live in “Socialist Democracy,” which was neither.