The conflict between President Trump and the news media has escalated from the day Mr. Trump declared his intent to run for the White House. A new book published Tuesday tracks that process, and the title tells all: “Unmasked: Big Media’s War Against Trump.”
The book jacket bears the corporate logos of The Washington Post, The New York Times and MSNBC, among other news organizations.
They have paid a price for their combat.
“This is the story of a media that set out to destroy a president and his administration, but destroyed themselves instead,” wrote Brent Bozell, founder and president of the Media Research Center, and co-author Tim Graham, director of media analysis at the conservative press watchdog.
The biased and Trump-hating journalists also don’t do the nation much good. The authors say the press has “weaponized and radicalized news media” — creating “a direct threat to democracy with unethical attempts to manipulate public opinion.”
The authors also provide a list of who they believe are the top offenders in this practice — CNN’s Brian Stelter and Jim Acosta plus ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos among them.
The book also delves into “biased, false and fake news,” partisan fact checkers, the “Russian obsession,” careless reporting and the startling lack of fair coverage in general.
“Journalists are the smartest people in the room, so smart they can’t possibly be expected to just report the news,” the authors said. “Thus, they grant themselves license to package it and analyze it with an intelligence only they seem to possess. They profess to believe in the power of facts, but what they really believe in is the power to proclaim facts. Facts exist to be bent to their will to further their narrative.”
The book is published by Humanix Books, which also counts David Horowitz and Michael Reagan among its authors.
• Jennifer Harper can be reached at jharper@washingtontimes.com.
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