The media attacks Donald Trump constantly, but that’s apparently not good enough for liberal economist Paul Krugman who believes the media is too pro-Trump. He made the claim in a recent series of tweets.
The Washington Examiner reports:
Paul Krugman accuses media of ‘pro-Trump bias’
Economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman said the news media’s tendency to strike balance when covering President Trump is injecting a “pro-Trump bias” in their reporting.
Krugman wrote in a series of Twitter posts that reporters would be more accurate in their White House coverage if they didn’t “pretend to take it seriously” when Trump does something controversial.
“It’s normal to feel that people you disagree with politically are offering bad solutions to our problems,” he wrote in one tweet. “But Trump has brought something new: his policy agenda is almost entirely directed at problems we don’t have — problems that exist only in his warped imagination.”
Here are the tweets:
It's normal to feel that people you disagree with politically are offering bad solutions to our problems. But Trump has brought something new: his policy agenda is almost entirely directed at problems we don't have — problems that exist only in his warped imagination 1/
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) June 10, 2018
These include:
– A wave of violent crime by undocumented immigrants
– Massive illegal voting by the same
– Massive Canadian tariffs against US goods
– Conspiracy by the Elders of Zion to take over the worldOK, he hasn't actually gone after point #4, but give him time 2/
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) June 10, 2018
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Journalists obviously have a hard time coping with all of this. They're afraid to say that the president is completely out of touch with reality — that sounds "unbalanced." So, all too often, they pretend that he's talking about something real 3/
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) June 10, 2018
This amounts, in practice, to huge pro-Trump bias: you're bothsidesing a debate where one side isn't even wrong, just completely insane And the other dodge — instead of talking about the substance, talk about how it's playing with Real Americans in diners — is just as bad 4/
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) June 10, 2018
Who does he think he’s kidding???
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