The media is worse than "Enemy of the People"

The media was quite disturbed when President Trump began calling 

their biased reporting on his Administration "fake news" but now the journalistic community have proven they are also dishonest brokers 

of public information and equally deserving of the president's latest

claim, they are the "enemy of the people".

To challenge the president they offer self serving platitudes on the 

First  Amendment, even daring to make a moral equivalence to
many high water marks of American journalism. Such ridiculous
assertions only demonstrate how far journalism has fallen.

Most open minded and objective citizens have observed for almost two

years the  mix of  both; "fake news" in the form of unverified reports

coming from unsourced leaks masquerading as journalism and prejudice by only reporting negative stories that strengthens the "enemy of the 

people" claim. A partisan media that omits information is clearly no

"friend of the people".

How can anyone call Trump's criticism a form of slander when over 

90% are negative stories. Perhaps "journalist malpractice" is more fitting.

And, having hurt feelings isn't enough. Now print media is going even 

further, organizing independent newspapers to attack, which only proves Trump's point! 

The call has been sent across the country for editorial boards to solicit 

opinion pieces on the "dangers" of Trump's criticism. 

While they are attacking to defend against the "enemy of the people" 
claim, they are making the case for the president!  Its one thing for an independent editorial to cite an opinion but blatantly dishonest when
only prejudiced commentaries are the only ones "the people" get to read.

When the print media publicly says it will enlist editorial writers to cite 

the dangers of  Trump's attacks they are no longer doing what the First Amendment protects, they have slid into the area of 'propaganda' on
a foundation of collusion! 

In closing, there are two parallels in what is going on.  The first occurred 

during the campaign when the National Review, a conservative magazine, published an entire issue, with solicited opinion pieces of why Donald Trump should not be elected.  We saw how that worked out.

Second and even more disturbing is the state of "editorial independence"

in the newspaper industry today.  One has to wonder why,on any given 

day across our nation so many editorials take the same position on an
issue, a concern that transcends the 'target' and goes to the core of the 
problem, the corrosion of American  journalism.

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