NP - NPR'S MASTER CLASS IN WHITEWASHING THE STEVE BANNON APPOINTMENT

[Mark Kohut]

BOOKFORUM MAG. Today. much more which few will go to:
Trump was not a media fail: The press succeeded in exposing Trump for what
he was
<http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/11/donald-trump-wins-2016-media-214442>
—
voters just decided they didn't care. The media blew the election — now they're
blowing the transition
<https://newrepublic.com/article/138680/media-blew-election-now-theyre-blowing-transition-trump>
to
Trump. The U.S. media is completely unprepared to cover a Trump presidency:

https://twitter.com/igorvolsky/status/797975208476966918

WA Po now saying FIREBRAND!



On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 11:51 AM, Allan Balliett <allan.balliett at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Since NPR is very questionable in many ways recently, I advise you to
> cling to Amy Goodman at Democracy Now! until something better comes along.
> Available on Pacifica stations as well as online
>
> -Allan in WV
>
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 11:23 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> http://nomoremister.blogspot.com/2016/11/nprs-master-class-i
>> n-whitewashing-steve.html
>>
>> If you're going to cover Donald Trump's decision to make Steve Bannon his
>> chief White House strategist, you at least have to explain why that choice
>> makes a lot of people very nervous. *The Washington Post*'s Jose
>> DelReal, for instance, gets to the point:
>> <https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/11/13/trump-draws-sharp-rebuke-concerns-over-newly-appointed-chief-white-house-strategist/>
>>
>> The announcement has produced intense hand-wringing in Washington and
>> sharp denunciations from political observers and strategists critical of
>> Breitbart News's close association with the alt-right, a fringe
>> conservative movement saturated with racially insensitive rhetoric and
>> elements of outright white nationalism.
>>
>> The Southern Poverty Law Center, a hate-watch group, has accused
>> Breitbart of explicitly embracing ethno-nationalism. After Bannon's
>> elevation was announced, the law center tweeted several controversial
>> stories written by Breitbart under Bannon's control, including a piece
>> published two weeks after a mass killing at a black church in Charleston,
>> S.C., last year: “Hoist it high and proud: the confederate flag proclaims a
>> glorious heritage.”
>>
>> Now consider the disgracefully incomplete report
>> <http://www.npr.org/2016/11/13/501938174/reince-priebus-stephen-bannon-picked-for-key-white-house-posts>
>>  that appeared on NPR's *All Things Considered* yesterday. Host Michel
>> Martin talked with Domenico Montanaro, NPR's lead politcal editor, about
>> Bannon's appointment. Here's what Martin and Montanaro said about Bannon:
>>
>> MONTANARO: ... Of course, Bannon will still sort of be, you know, chief
>> inspiration (laughter) at the White House. And that could mean that if
>> things go wrong - you know, Bannon is no fan of the Republican leadership
>> in Paul Ryan or Mitch McConnell, that he'll have sort of the - you know,
>> the macho back for Donald Trump in order to fight back, if need be.
>>
>> MARTIN: Well, let's talk a little bit more, though, about Steve Bannon.
>> He came into the campaign late but seemed to have a very large effect. Many
>> people attribute the conspiracy theories that were pushed - about Hillary
>> Clinton's health, for example, which were also fanned on the Breitbart
>> website that Bannon led. Can you talk a little bit more about him?
>>
>> MONTANARO: Yeah. Unquestionably, he's a take-no-prisoners operative. You
>> know, a former Hollywood producer, a Goldman Sachs managing director as
>> well. He ran the website Breitbart, as you said, which has, you know,
>> become kind of synonymous with the alt-right and certainly, like I said, no
>> fan of the establishment Republicans. And establishment Republicans are no
>> fan of them, so they're going to have to figure out a way to get along.
>>
>> Um, there's going to be more about that alt-right business, isn't there?
>>    Nope.   Martin and Montanaro are through with that. All they can
>> focus on is the possible political infighting.
>>
>> NPR's preferred approach seems to be letting loyalists come on one at a
>> time, and allowing them to spin and spin and spin.
>>
>> At a time when basic American freedoms are under threat, and unfavored
>> groups are at serious risk, I want to be told about the dangers. I want to
>> hear about more than political power games -- and I don't want to hear one
>> spin doctor after another telling me that everything's going to be all
>> right.
>>
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