Ms. Mollie Hemingway, writer for TheFederalist.com, with an unfortunate last name, "Hemingway," a man who would no doubt detest her apparent admiration of possible US Dictator, President Trump, wants us to buy her opinion that MSNBC and CNN lie when reporting news on Trump. Hemingway highlight Jake Tapper and Chuck Todd, as "lefties," revealing her true bias and intent.
Tapper and Todd are two reporters Trump loves to hate and bully, so is Hemingway just piling on, or is she seeking truth?
"'Conservative Columnist Mollie Hemingway Rails Against Media Bias While Amplifying Pizzagate Conspiracist"
Compared to that, mainstream journalism is a paragon of virtue.
by Gary Legum 7 March 2019
"Amid the uproar over the Democratic National Committee announcing that it would not let Fox News host any primary debates, right-wing apologist Mollie Hemingway took to the pages of The Federalist to defend the network while slamming CNN, MSNBC and the major networks for being far more biased towards liberals than Fox is towards conservatives.
One could pick apart nearly every sentence of Hemingway’s column for its bogus points and comparisons. For example, among the CNN anchors she criticizes for “blur[ring] the line between news and opinion,” she cites Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon. If anyone who has ever caught CNN in primetime confuses Cuomo and Lemon for straight news anchors instead of opinionated hosts, I don’t know what to tell them. It is unclear how CNN promotes these two as neutral anchors when they are hosting obvious opinion shows.
But there are really two major points to make about this column. One, in defending Fox News, Hemingway neglects to mention that she is a paid Fox contributor. When a writer for Vox mentioned this fact on Twitter, Hemingway responded with a healthy dose of sarcasm . . .
. . . you are really giving the game away if you are complaining about bias from left-leaning journalism outfits while uncritically amplifying tweets from alt-right troll and One America News host Jack Posobiec, a notorious conspiracy theorist who made his name in 2016 by promoting the tremendously fake Pizzagate story"
"We should take the pro-Trump media machine very seriously"
By Greg Sargent 16 May 2018 Opinion writer
"Fox News spins desperately to shield lawless president from accountability"
By Greg Sargent 15 March 2019 Opinion writer
"It’s time — high time — to take Fox News’s destructive role in America seriously"
By Margaret Sullivan Media columnist March 7, 2019
Fox News, are you defending President Trump's lies because you are patriotic? Where is the "red line" from crime in your view? When should a President try to bring the country together rather than split it in a Cold Civil War?
"Jane Mayer on the Revolving Door Between Fox News and the White House"
By The New Yorker March 5, 2019
"In a recent article, Mayer, a staff writer since 1995, analyzes a symbiotic relationship that boosts both Trump’s poll numbers and Rupert Murdoch’s bottom line. “I was trying to figure out who sets the tune that everybody plays during the course of the day. If the news on Fox is all about some kind of caravan of immigrants supposedly invading America, whose idea is that? It turns out that it is this continual feedback loop,” Mayer says."
So how does Fox decide what to tell President Trump?
"Well, Ben Bradlee—who went on to be the great editor of the Watergate era—when he was at Newsweek, was best friends with John F. Kennedy. At the 1960 Democratic Convention, Phil Graham, the owner of the Washington Post, brokered the relationship, and the nomination of Lyndon Johnson as Vice-President to John Kennedy. Walter Lippmann, the great newspaper columnist and pundit, saw it as his role to advise Presidents at a certain point in history. What’s the difference now?
Well, and of course we do write that in the piece, thanks to some excellent editing. And it’s true. But what we’ve got here is the single largest cable-television network in America that is reaching Trump’s base every night. It’s not just a single evening of brokering a convention, or a visit behind the scenes with the President, as Ben Bradlee did, or going horseback riding with him, or whatever they did. This is like a daily operation where you’re seeing the President of the United States criticizing all the rest of the media and shutting down the press briefings for the rest of the media and favoring one channel, to the exclusion of the others, which is carrying his message without any mediation a lot of the time. And so it’s become an arm of the White House. That’s what’s really different."
Did Fox News decide during the Presidential campaign to support, and aid and abet Trump (in his crimes?), or did Fox News decide to help and advise Trump after he was elected?
"The Making of the Fox News White House"
Fox News has always been partisan. But has it become propaganda?
By Jane Mayer March 11, 2019 Issue
"In January, during the longest government shutdown in America’s history, President Donald Trump rode in a motorcade through Hidalgo County, Texas, eventually stopping on a grassy bluff overlooking the Rio Grande. The White House wanted to dramatize what Trump was portraying as a national emergency: the need to build a wall along the Mexican border. The presence of armored vehicles, bales of confiscated marijuana, and federal agents in flak jackets underscored the message.
But the photo op dramatized something else about the Administration. After members of the press pool got out of vans and headed over to where the President was about to speak, they noticed that Sean Hannity, the Fox News host, was already on location. Unlike them, he hadn’t been confined by the Secret Service, and was mingling with Administration officials, at one point hugging Kirstjen Nielsen, the Secretary of Homeland Security. The pool report noted that Hannity was seen “huddling” with the White House communications director, Bill Shine. After the photo op, Hannity had an exclusive on-air interview with Trump. Politico later reported that it was Hannity’s seventh interview with the President, and Fox’s forty-second. Since then, Trump has given Fox two more. He has granted only ten to the three other main television networks combined, and none to CNN, which he denounces as “fake news.”"
President Trump is all about theater, much less about substance.
