Yahoo News has an article now online that speculates that President Trump is having an affair with UN Ambassador Nikki Haley. The article is quick to point out that it has no facts to back up the speculation. It's just that Michael Wolff, the guy who wrote a book which he admits contains many lies, mentions at one point that there is a belief that the President is having an affair right now.
The idea that a news organization would publish this sort of baseless stuff is truly insane. Remember 2004 when none of the news media would publish the story of John Edwards affair and child until someone finally got pictures of Edwards leaving the woman's home late at night? Then the media needed proof before publishing salacious stories about a national figure. When Bill Clinton was having sex in the Oval Office with an intern, the media was also silent for a long period until finally proof was brought forward. Today, a man puts a rumor with no name connected to it in a book he says is filled with lies. There's no proof that the rumor is true, but the media rushes to print it and add in the name of the likely woman even though there's not one bit of evidence to support that claim.
I know that media hates President Trump. Nevertheless, common decency and good journalistic practices at least require that there be some basis for the story.
Think of it this way: suppose the New York Post were to write that it is rumored that Chuck Schumer is sleeping with Dick Durbin? There's no proof of that or even anything that indicates it might be true. Is it okay for there to be an article on Page Six under the headline "Schumer likes Dick"? I don't think so.
The mainstream media is totally losing it.
The idea that a news organization would publish this sort of baseless stuff is truly insane. Remember 2004 when none of the news media would publish the story of John Edwards affair and child until someone finally got pictures of Edwards leaving the woman's home late at night? Then the media needed proof before publishing salacious stories about a national figure. When Bill Clinton was having sex in the Oval Office with an intern, the media was also silent for a long period until finally proof was brought forward. Today, a man puts a rumor with no name connected to it in a book he says is filled with lies. There's no proof that the rumor is true, but the media rushes to print it and add in the name of the likely woman even though there's not one bit of evidence to support that claim.
I know that media hates President Trump. Nevertheless, common decency and good journalistic practices at least require that there be some basis for the story.
Think of it this way: suppose the New York Post were to write that it is rumored that Chuck Schumer is sleeping with Dick Durbin? There's no proof of that or even anything that indicates it might be true. Is it okay for there to be an article on Page Six under the headline "Schumer likes Dick"? I don't think so.
The mainstream media is totally losing it.
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