The front page of Monday’s Washington Post bubbled over with liberal panic after ABC News settled with President Trump over George Stephanopoulos repeatedly smearing Trump on his show This Week as “liable for rape.” Somehow, that’s not as hostile or combative as Trump’s rhetoric.
Media reporters Sarah Ellison and Jeremy Barr are all about pushing scary talk about Trump oppressing his haters in the press. The headline:
Trump signals plans to use all levers of power against the media
Press freedom advocates say they fear that the second Trump administration will ramp up pressure on journalists, in keeping with the president-elect’s combative rhetoric.
“Press freedom advocates” are apparently those who think Stephanopoulos should be free to say all kinds of nasty things about Trump. Saying nasty things about Trump is their idea of journalism.
Ellison…
