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CHAPTER 7: ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE: THE HATE-TRUMP MEDIA MOB
  1. 1
    . Dori Monson Show, “Howard Kurtz Says Media Mate for Trump is Unprecedented,”
    My Northwest
    , July 12, 2018.
  2. 2
    . Robert J. Samuelson, “Why Trump Loves to Hate the Media,”
    Washington Post
    , February 22, 2017.
  3. 3
    . Stephen Collinson, “Donald Trump Refuses to Say Whether He'll Accept Election Results,” CNN, October 20, 2016.
  4. 4
    . David Zurawik, “Trump's War on Press No Match for Obama's,”
    Baltimore Sun
    , March 4, 2017.
  5. 5
    . Ibid.
  6. 6
    . Art Swift, “Americans' Trust in Mass Media Sinks to New Low,” Gallup, September 14, 2016.
  7. 7
    . “Why Trump Supporters Hate the Media,”
    Fair Observer
    , July 1, 2017.
  8. 8
    . “Fourth Estate,”
    Journalism Encyclopedia,
    Open School of Journalism,
    https://www.openschoolofjournalism.com/resources/encyclopedia/fourth-estate
    .
  9. 9
    . Bruce
    Thornton, “A Brief History of Media Bias,” Hoover Institution, June 12, 2013.
  10. 10
    . Mike Ciandella, “57 Times More Coverage of Trump's Temporary Ban Than Obama Ending Cuban Refugee Program,” NewsBusters, January 30, 2017.
  11. 11
    . Matthew Archbold, “8 Most Hilarious and Unsettling Obama-as-Deity Metaphors,”
    National Catholic Register
    , May 31, 2013.
  12. 12
    . Paul Bedard, “Newsweek: Obama Is the ‘The Second Coming,' ”
    Washington Examiner
    , January 19, 2013.
  13. 13
    . Cheryl K. Chumley, “Barbara Walters Admits ‘We' Thought Obama was ‘the Next Messiah,' ”
    Washington Times
    , December 18, 2013.
  14. 14
    . Mark Moford, “Is Obama an Enlightened Being? Spiritual Wise Ones Say: This Sure Ain't No Ordinary Politician. You Buying It?”
    SFGate
    , June 6, 2008.
  15. 15
    . Danny Shea, “Chris Matthews: ‘I Felt This Thrill Going Up My Leg,' as Obama Spoke,”
    HuffPost
    , December 6, 2017.
  16. 16
    . For the fullest account of the attack, see the House Select Committee on Benghazi's “Final Report of the Select Committee on the Events Surrounding the 2012 Terrorist Attack in Benghazi,” December 7, 2016.
  17. 17
    . Bruce Thornton, “A Brief History of Media Bias,” Hoover Institution, June 12, 2013.
  18. 18
    . David Samuels, “The Aspiring Novelist Who Became Obama's Foreign-Policy Guru,”
    New York Times Magazine
    , May 5, 2016.
  19. 19
    . Ibid.
  20. 20
    . Ibid.
  21. 21
    . Ibid.
  22. 22
    . Ibid.
  23. 23
    . Joe Concha, “Where's the Outrage Over Obama's Fake News Peddling?”
    Hill
    , December 6, 2016.
  24. 24
    . Gideon Resnick, “Trump Won't Denounce KKK Support,”
    Daily Beast
    , February 26, 2016,
    https://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2016/02/28/trump-won-t-denounce-kkk-support
    .
  25. 25
    . Rich Noyes, “Condemning Republicans, Cheering Democrats: The Media's Biased 2016 Convention Coverage,” NewsBusters, July 29, 2016.
  26. 26
    . Jim Rutenberg, “Trump Is Testing the Norms of Objectivity in Journalism,”
    New York Times
    , August 7, 2016.
  27. 27
    . Stuart Rothenberg “Trump's Path to an Electoral College Victory Isn't Narrow. It's Nonexistent,”
    Washington Post
    , October 18, 2016.
  28. 28
    . Ibid.
  29. 29
    . Geoffrey Dickens, “Rigged? Trump Doesn't Have a Single Major Newspaper Endorsement,” NewsBusters, October 18, 2016.
  30. 30
    . Rich Noyes, “MRC Study: Documenting TV's Twelve Weeks of Trump Bashing,” NewsBusters, October 25, 2016.
  31. 31
    . Jack
    Shafer, “How Trump Took Over the Media by Fighting It,”
    Politico Magazine
    , November 5, 2016.
  32. 32
    . Kalev Leetaru, “Measuring the Media's Obsession with Trump,”
    Real Clear Politics
    , December 6, 2018.
  33. 33
    . Mike Ciandella, “CNN Spends 78 Percent of Prime Time GOP Campaign Coverage on Trump,” NewsBusters, September 17, 2015.
  34. 34
    . John Sides, “Why is Trump Surging? Blame the Media,”
    Washington Post
    , July 20, 2015.
  35. 35
    . Nate Cohn, “The Trump Campaign's Turning Point,”
    New York Times
    , July 18, 2015.
  36. 36
    . Paul Farhi, “The Washington Post's New Slogan Turns Out to be an Old Saying,”
    Washington Post
    , February 24, 2017.
  37. 37
    . Joe Concha, “ ‘The Washington Post: ‘Democracy Dies in Darkness,' ”
    Hill
    , February 22, 2017
  38. 38
    . Editorial, “Do the Media Hate Trump? Yes, and from the Very Start of His Presidency, New Survey Shows,”
    Investor's Business Daily
    , October 3, 2017.
  39. 39
    . AllahPundit, “Pew Media Coverage of Trump Through First 60 Days Vastly More Negative Than Last Three Presidents,”
    Hot Air
    , October 2, 2017.
  40. 40
    . Elizabeth Harrington, “The ‘Hate Trump' Agenda by the Democrats Has Gone Too Far,”
    Hill
    , August 6, 2019.
  41. 41
    . “Covington Catholic High School Students Smeared by Mainstream Media Lies—Don't Expect an Apology,” Fox News, January 21, 2019.
  42. 42
    . Oliver Darcy, “CNN Settles Lawsuit with Nick Sandmann Stemming from Viral Video,”
    CNN
    , January 7, 2020.
    https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/07/media/cnn-settles-lawsuit-viral-video/index.html
    ).
  43. 43
    . Anonymous, “I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration,”
    New York Times
    , September 8, 2018.
  44. 44
    . John Gans, “Col. Vindman and the Trumpification of the National Security Council,”
    New York Times
    , February 7, 2020,
    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/07/opinion/alexander-vindman-nsc-trump.html
    .
  45. 45
    . “Gergen on firings: There's a classy way and the Trump way,”
    Cuomo Prime Time
    ,
    CNN.com
    ,
    https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/02/08/vindman-sondland-trump-firings-gergen-cpt-sot-vpx.cnn
    .
  46. 46
    . Elie Honig, “Trump engaged in witness retaliation. That's a crime,”
    CNN.com
    , February 12, 2020,
    https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/12/opinions/trump-vindman-criminal-witness-retaliation-cross-exam-honig/index.html
  47. 47
    . 
    https://twitter.com/SteveScalise/status/1188510478634536962?s=20
    .
  48. 48
    . Dominic Green, “The Democratic Media Hate Trump More Than They Love Iran—or America,”
    Spectator USA
    , January 7, 2020.
  49. 49
    . Joseph A. Wulfsohn, “Ted Cruz Bashes MSNBC's Joy Reid for Her “Trump's Benghazi' Claim: ‘What's Wrong with You?' ” Fox News, January 2, 2020.
  50. 50
    . Amanda
    Prestigiacomo, “MSNBC's Joy Reid Celebrates: ‘Trump's Benghazi Unfolds In Iraq,' ”
    Daily Wire
    , Janaury 1, 2020.
  51. 51
    . Sharyl Attkisson, “Media Mistakes in the Trump Era: The Definitive List,” updated May 3, 2020.
  52. 52
    . Ibid.
  53. 53
    . Ibid.
  54. 54
    . Ezra Klein, “The Media vs. Donald Trump: Why the Press Feels So Free to Criticize the Republican Nominee,”
    Vox
    , August 16, 2016.
  55. 55
    . Margaret Sullivan, “We Have Entered the Trump Unbound Era—and Journalists Need to Step It Up,”
    Washington Post
    , February 23, 2020.
  56. 56
    . Benjamin Hart, “Jeffrey Lord Isn't on CNN Anymore, but He Still Loves Trump,”
    New York Intelligencer
    , July 21, 2019.
  57. 57
    . Michael M. Grynbaum, “Jeffery Lord, Trump Defender on CNN, Is Fired for Using Nazi Slogan,”
    New York Times
    , August 10, 2017.
  58. 58
    . “High School History Lesson Compares Trump with Nazis, Communists,” Associated Press, February 23, 2020.
  59. 59
    . Mike Ciandella and Rich Noyes, “HYPOCRISY: 7X More Coverage for Sessions Debacle than Holder Contempt,” NewsBusters, March 3, 2017.
  60. 60
    . Rich Noyes and Mike Ciandella, “TV News vs. President Trump: The First 30 Days,” NewsBusters, March 2, 2017.
  61. 61
    . Rich Noyes and Mike Ciandella, “Honeymoon from Hell: The Liberal Media vs. President Trump,” NewsBusters, April 19, 2017.
  62. 62
    . Rich Noyes and Mike Ciandella, “Study: The Liberal Media's Summer of Pummeling Trump,” NewsBusters, September 12, 2017.
  63. 63
    . Jennifer Harper, “Media Bias at CNN and MSNBC: Just 3% of Questions Friendly to GOP, Says Study,”
    Washington Times
    , August 20, 2019
  64. 64
    . Tim Hains, “MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell: ‘The President Is A Russian Operative,”
    Real Clear Politics
    , February 23, 2020,
    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/02/23/msnbcs_lawrence_odonnell_the_president_is_a_russian_operative.html
    .
  65. 65
    . Ian Schwartz, “Chris Hayes: This Is Not About The Wall, It's About an ‘Ethnically Pure America,' ”
    Real Clear Politics
    , January 11, 2019.
  66. 66
    . Curtis Houck, “Matthews: Trump Speech Was ‘Hitlerian,' Jokes He Could Fix Nepotism Laws By Hanging Son-in-Law,” Newsbusters, January 20, 2017,
    https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2017/01/20/matthews-trump-speech-was-hitlerian-jokes-he-could-fix-nepotism
    .
  67. 67
    . Tim Graham, “Roland Martin on MSNBC: All White Evangelical Trump-Backers Are ‘Christian Frauds,' ” Newsbusters, March 1, 2020,
    https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2020/03/01/roland-martin-msnbc-all-white-evangelical-trump-backers-are-christian-frauds
    .
  68. 68
    . Matthew Rozsa, “Joe Scarborough says that Donald Trump is either ‘an agent of Russia' or ‘a useful idiot,' ”
    Salon
    , November 14,
    2019,
    https://www.salon.com/2019/11/14/joe-scarborough-says-that-donald-trump-is-either-an-agent-of-russia-or-a-useful-idiot/
    .
  69. 69
    . Curtis Houck, “ 'Hardball' A-Block Freaks Over ‘Delusional,' ‘Strong Man' Trump, Compares Him to John Wilkes Booth,” Newsbusters, July 25, 2018,
    https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2018/07/25/hardball-block-freaks-over-delusional-strong-man-trump-compares-him
    ; Curtis Houck, “MSNBC's Chris Matthews Compares Trump to Idi Amin, Kim Jong-Un: ‘He Loves the Parades!,' ” Newsbusters, July 20, 2017,
    https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2017/07/20/msnbcs-chris-matthews-compares-trump-kim-jong-un-he-loves-parades
    ; Curtis Houck, “Matthews Suggests Trump Channel Mussolini, Murder Kushner; Compares Him to Ethiopian Dictator,” Newsbusters, July 29, 2017,
    https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2017/06/29/matthews-suggests-trump-channel-mussolini-murder-kushner-compares
    .
  70. 70
    . Rich Noyes, “Study: CNN Is Completely Obsessed with Donald Trump—and Not in a Good Way,” NewsBusters, May 16, 2017.
  71. 71
    . Ibid.
  72. 72
    . Ken Meyer, “CNN's Stelter Looks Back on Taking Avenetti Seriously: ‘Was That Stupid on My Part?' ” Mediate, February 16, 2020.
  73. 73
    . “PART 1: CNN Insider Blows Whistle on Network President Jeff Zucker's Personal Vendetta Against POTUS,” Project Veritas, October 14, 2019,
    https://www.projectveritas.com/2019/10/14/exposecnnpart1/
    .
  74. 74
    . 
    https://twitter.com/donie/status/1213953640198819847
    .
  75. 75
    . “CNN Attacks Babylon Bee: ‘The Internet Is Only Big Enough for One Fake News Site.' ”
    The Babylon Bee
    , January 7, 2020.
  76. 76
    . “Press Release: FOX News Channel Dominates Basic Cable for 41 Consecutive Months in Total Day,”
    APNews.com
    , November 26, 2019,
    https://apnews.com/Business%20Wire/537d5013e4ba4c4db10ba941b9ee36a1
    .
  77. 77
    . Amber Athey, “Fox Wins Cable Battle—CNN Loses To Cartoon Network,”
    Daily Caller
    , June 5, 2018,
    https://dailycaller.com/2018/06/05/fox-cnn-cable-ratings-cartoon-network/
    .
  78. 78
    . Eddie Scarry, “Journalists question Buzzfeed publishing unconfirmed intel report on Trump,”
    Washington Examiner
    , January 11, 2017,
    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/journalists-question-buzzfeed-publishing-unconfirmed-intel-report-on-trump
    .
  79. 79
    . Chuck Ross, “Emails: Jake Tapper Tore Into ‘Irresponsible' BuzzFeed Editor for Publishing the ‘Steele Dossier,' ”
    Tennessee Star
    , February 11, 2019,
    https://tennesseestar.com/2019/02/11/emails-jake-tapper-tore-into-irresponsible-buzzfeed-editor-for-publishing-the-steele-dossier/
    .
  80. 80
    . Mike Ciandella, “Nets Spend 44 Minutes on ‘One of the Great Political Smears of All Time,' ” NewsBusters, January 11, 2017.
  81. 81
    . Bill
    D'Agostino, “Yellow Journalism: CNN Spouts Off About ‘Pee Tapes' 77 Times in Five Days,” NewsBusters, April 16, 2018.
  82. 82
    . Chuck Ross, “WaPo Reporter: FBI and CIA Say They Doubt Major Dossier Allegation,”
    Daily Caller
    , December 16, 2018,
    https://dailycaller.com/2018/12/16/fbi-cia-doubted-dossier/
    .
  83. 83
    . Geoffrey Dickens, “CNN Promoted Story Debunked by James Comey,” NewsBusters, June 14, 2017.
  84. 84
    . Rowan Scarborough, “FBI-debunked Russia-Trump story helped
    New York Times
    win journalism award,”
    Washington Times
    , March 1, 2018.
    https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/mar/1/fbi-debunked-russia-trump-story-helped-new-york-ti/
    .

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