November 22, 2016
THE LEAST WE'RE ENTITLED TO FROM A FREE PRESS IN A REPUBLIC...:
5 Things Trump Yelled At The Press About. #4 Will Make You Laugh Hysterically. (JAMES BARRETT NOVEMBER 22, 2016, Daily Wire)
4. Trump to NBC: Stop showing pictures of me with a double chin.In the most hilarious moment of the contentious meeting, Trump turned to the members of NBC and blasted them for presenting him in as unflattering a light as possible, specifically noting that they couldn't even come up with an attractive photo of him during broadcasts. According to NPR's source, his main complaint was the networks use of "photographs showing him with multiple chins."
LA Times and Mother Jones Under Fire for Glamorizing White Supremacist (Masha Froliak, November 22, 2016, Heat Street)
https://heatst.com/culture-wars/la-times-and-mother-jones-under-fire-for-glamorizing-white-supremacist/
Both stories attempted to decipher the alt movement through one of its main protagonists--the president of the Neo-Nazi group Richard Spencer. And this is where it got weird.Mother Jones referred to Spencer as a "dapper white nationalist," while the LA Times called the group a "new think thank" and referred to Spencer as "the up-and-coming intellectual voice of the movement."The Twitter outrage is unsurprising.Yes, this is the guy who later in his interview with Mother Jones talks about racial supremacy of white people, who claims that Hispanics and African Americans have lower average IQs than whites and are more genetically predisposed to commit crimes.
...is that they not pretend to "fair" coverage of these guys.
Posted by Orrin Judd at November 22, 2016 1:29 PM