The rare occasion the media swoons over Trump : when he embraces war | Ross Barkan | Opinion

/positive-trump-media-coverage-when-he-e

  • The rare occasion the media swoons over Trump: when he embraces war | Ross Barkan | Opinion | The Guardian
    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/22/positive-trump-media-coverage-when-he-embraces-war

    For political reporters, the value of critiquing style instead of policy is in avoiding the nasty partisan fights that actually matter. Analyzing how something is said, rather than the meaning and impact of the words, is a supposedly objective act, allowing reporters to appear neutral.

    Talk about elocution, and you’re fine. Talk about policy and you’re – gasp – biased.

    War, though, triggers something else in the reporter class. As the disgraced Brian Williams, swooning over cruise missiles laying waste to a Syrian airfield, showed us a few months back, #establishment journalists and talking heads haven’t met a war yet they couldn’t get behind – or at least fetishize. #Washington journalists cheered on the Iraq war and reversed course when it was too late.

    There is nothing quite as presidential, in Washington’s eyes, as a war. A war allows the most shallow, flailing and destructive presidencies to be redeemed in the eyes of the media, at least for a day. “War and killing are the US media’s pornography,” Glenn Greenwald of the Intercept tweeted.

    #journalisme #médias #MSM #etats-unis #guerres #assassinats pseudo #objectivité #pornographie