Jacob Bernstein of the New York Times had a pretty awesome suggestion for what people in social media could do to support the Capital Gazette after the tragic shooting at the paper on Thursday afternoon.
Instead of screaming into the wind about Trump's attacks on the press, let's subscribe to the Capital Gazette for $2 a week and put money behind the idea journalists aren't enemies. First 4 weeks just $0.99. Cancel whenever. Link here: https://t.co/zGTHjV1RSO. Please RT.
— Jacob Bernstein (@BernsteinJacob) June 29, 2018
Actually, DO SOMETHING. Help keep a print paper in business.
We dig this, so much.
So, of course, he received pushback on it.
No, I'm not saying it's wrong. I'm saying merely that it's time to stop pretending the war on the press started with Trump. He escalated it, but it was supported in one way or another by more establishment politicians than not, on both sides of the aisle.
— Jacob Bernstein (@BernsteinJacob) June 29, 2018
Jacob nailed it.
Maggie Haberman, also of the New York Times, should have stopped RIGHT before the word ‘but’ in her reply to this thread:
Supporting local journalism is important, what happened today is sickening. This alleged gunman appears to have had a longstanding grudge against the paper and little else is known so far. But Trump is the only president in memory to call the press “the enemy of the people.” https://t.co/QmGBikZh0L
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) June 29, 2018
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But Trump is the only president in memory to call the press, ‘the enemy of the people’
Well, that’s productive.
Or is it?
This is really silly https://t.co/44JNQUdIMn
— Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) June 29, 2018
What he said.
Admitting that an attack had nothing to do with Trump and then pivoting seamless to "but let's talk about Trump" just vindicates all the worst things Trump says about us
— Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) June 29, 2018
What he said, again.
I mean, why shouldn't Hannity do the same thing? "Yes, this had nothing to do with Maxine Waters. But [same exact talking he would have used if it had]"?
— Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) June 29, 2018
He’s not wrong.
All evidence so far suggests Trump’s rhetoric (or Maxine Waters) had nothing to do with this shooting but we’re going to suggest it did anyway
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) June 29, 2018
When so-called “journalists” tweet sh*t like THIS before they even know what happened and then delete it and have to apologize, it proves Trump right. Facts First right? Please. ? pic.twitter.com/bMRbQh2NM8
— JenniferW (@JenWoodruff79) June 29, 2018
Oof.
https://twitter.com/EF517_V3/status/1012665723079004160
Because when Obama did those things it was for the good of the people or something.
Weird that you cite Trump’s words about the press in the aftermath of the Gazette shooting, yet omitted that Obama actually had the press wiretapped & brought up on Espionage Act charges.
Although none of it has relativity to this shooting it’s noticeable that’s always left out.— RightWingM ?? (@TheRightWingM) June 29, 2018
Weird is an interesting word for it.
Disingenuous is better.
Maybe press should work on being honest and unbiased.
Reaction to this shooting is a case study in media idiocy and bias.
— William Keane (@largebill68) June 29, 2018
Makes sense to us.
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