The Strange View Of Fair Reporting

In the last few days, there have been the usual nonsensical disputes in the media.  After the cast of Hamilton decided to deliver a lecture from the stage to Vice President Elect Pence, Donald Trump said that an apology was due from that cast.  Oh, the horror of it all.  The far left media (that's most of it) went into a near meltdown because Trump said this on Twitter.  Understand what the criticism purports to be.  If a reporter asked Trump what he thought of the Hamilton stunt, it would supposedly be fine with the media if he said that the cast ought to apologize to Pence.  Saying the same thing on Twitter is just too unpresidential according to the media.  Then there's Saturday Night Live from last weekend.  The show started with a skit that brought back Alec Baldwin to do his Trump impression.  Last week, we were told that Baldwin would not be back; too bad that was untrue.  The skit was the sort of unfunny parody that has come to be the norm on SNL for at least the last decade.  Trump, however, sent out a tweet again so the media is gathering its outrage again.  Trump called the show unfunny.  He was right there.  But why is it that if Trump comments we get an avalanche of responses saying that Trump should be working on America's problems and not tweeting?  In the last eight years, president Obama has spent something close to eight months on vacation.  None of these people who are now hyperventilating said anything about that.  Donald Trump sends one tweet and he's shirking his duties.

I doubt that anyone other than the left's true believers care about the back and forth regarding Trump's tweets, and I wouldn't have commented about this stuff at all except for one thing:  the extreme nastiness of the media.  For example, in one article the "reporter" doesn't say that Trump tweeted.  No, according to this obviously unbiased reporter, Trump "used his stumpy orange fingers" to tap out a message.

I keep hoping that we will finally get to the point at which the personality based disputes and the nastiness will abate and things can get done to help the people of this country.  This all proves that we are not there yet.