It is much easier than paraphrasing
“A week later, the president wrote racist tweets aimed at the squad, all women of color, which prompted Democrats to rally around Ms. Ocasio-Cortez as well as Reps. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts.”
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We have long complained that the “news” sections of the Wall Street Journal are just as liberal as most of American media.
With the exception of a generally supportive stance toward the ‘anti-Trump’ crowd and “open borders”, its editorial page is a bit more right-leaning.
With Saturday’s edition, however, we might revise our assessment somewhat.
The “problem”, as we see it, could be that some, or many, of the Journal’s reporters in the “news” sections are biased ” journalists” or, perhaps, just poor writers.
It has been a long series of and numerous examples that have led to our conclusion but a story in Saturday’s edition headed, “Pelosi Works to Cool Caucus Splits” provides a rather stark example illustrating our conclusion:
“A week later, the president wrote racist tweets aimed at the squad, all women of color, which prompted Democrats to rally around Ms. Ocasio-Cortez as well as Reps. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts.”
Admittedly, this is a rather subtle passage to use as an example of bias. However, it was the offhand, but firm assertion that,’oh, by the way, “the president (DID MOST CERTAINLY WRITE) racist tweets”.
Since I’m not in the camp of these two reporters (Natalie Andrews and Jesse Naranjo), I have a little disagreement with their self-righteous assertion that the so-called ‘tweets’ were “racist”.
I believe, though I’m not credentialed as a mainstream reporter/writer, that the sentence I find biased and offensive should more properly be written. “A week later, the president wrote tweets which some thought were “racist”…”
See Natalie and Jesse, how easy that was? You could have gotten the accusation you favor into print but, at the same time written it accurately. I, for one, did not think President Trump’s “tweets” you refer to were “racist”. I think there may have been a few other Journal readers who also did not.
Why is this even worth mentioning you might be asking?
Because this is done every day in every liberal news outlet…often not quite as subtly (and that may be good) but with the intent by the writers and editors to plant their own biased assertions in the reader’s mind as ‘facts’!
If you do it often enough and in every possible way get that viewpoint into stories, it soon becomes the “accepted wisdom”.
We are seeing it every day, and alarmingly…it may eventually work! DLH
