A city government-run news organization would be “more fair,” said New York City mayor Bill de Blasio in a closed, private session with news reporters last week as to which the reporting seems shaded to curry favor with a potential future employer.
The closed session included some reporters laid off during the recent shuttering of two “local” news operations owned by Trump donor Joseph Ricketts in November. Some reporters might need jobs, while De Blasio might be looking for additional friendly sources to cover, or hide, various stories while he apparently ramps up testing the presidential waters for 2020. De Blasio was in Iowa and denied running for President, but it’s highly unlikely a city mayor travels to the first-caucus-in-the-nation state two years early for any other reason.
So, during this unusual co-dependent partnership get-together, De Blasio admitted he trusted the “public sector to create [a] fair and responsive media more than a bunch of rich people from multinational corporations.”
Any seasoned reporter would have noticed the obvious target: De Blasio’s immediate predecessor and three-term mayor, Mike Bloomberg, the founder and majority owner of the eponymous media empire Bloomberg L.P. with an estimated net worth of $47 billion. However, many out-of-work reporters might not want to print that conclusion, perhaps thinking they want to preserve another job option.
This should all raise the question as to how “fair” current news reporting can be, when potential employers including the government can exercise such control over the careers of financially-struggling (and by implication, controllable) reporters.
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As another take, consider how fair Trump’s government press would be…
During the campaign, the “fair and balanced” Fox News gave Trump about a 10:1 ratio of airtime over his competitors and nothing but softball questions – then use Trumpian insults as the basis for their questions to Trump competitors…..
Anyone thinking Trump wants a “fair” Press with his level of narcissism has their heads screwed on sideways (or backwards).
If anything, we need to keep striving for a FREE and INDEPENDENT Press – NOT controlled by the whims of liberals like Zuckerberg, or Bloomberg, or Trump.
There would be a lot fewer unemployed reporters had those reporters been fairly covering both sides of the stories instead of uniformly covering the progressive side only. Every time I see a left wing news organization do layoffs I have to be glad that the marketplace works, that BS antagonizing half the population or more is a sure route to failure.
Once it became clear that Trump would win the nomination Media coverage turned sharply negative (source below). At this time. over 90% of media comments on Trump are negative – the same ratio as present prior to his election. The ratio of media bias against Trump is mildly higher than other Republicans but not hugely. If you actually listened to FOX and saw their percent positive versus negative you would note that FOX is 52% negative and 48% positive – better than the other legacy media (who are overwhelmingly negative) but actually quite literally balanced.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/harvard-study-as-trump-won-media-coverage-turned-sharply-negative/article/2596199
http://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/media-coverage-of-trumps-presidency-has-been-historically-negative-per-harvard-study/329766
A Communist by any other Constitution, and America hating, name is still a C-O-M-M-U-N-I-S-T!
“government run media would be “more fair””
—well, it certainly couldn’t be less fair than the current corrupt d-cRAT-run leftist fake-news media !!!!