I was really trying to avoid a political discussion on the
blog this month. Truly, I was. But President Trump’s attacks on the press
have crossed a line, and I cannot remain silent about this.
Trump has been attacking the press for months, claiming that
they are “treating him unfairly”, that they are not covering the truth. He has gone on record saying that much of the
coverage directed at him from mainstream news outlets is nothing but “fake news.” He has suggested that every negative poll
about him is somehow fake. He has even
attacked individual news outlets simply because they won’t give him favorable
coverage (which is laughable, because objectivity is a requirement of
journalism). We’ve watched these things
for months, but we believed them to be nothing but the musings of a
narcissistic coward. Unfortunately, they
were more than that.
