THE FOURTH ESTATE

Those WSJ editorial folks love to spread the mayonnaise, thick and often.

There at it again. Today's opinion piece went after their favorite target of late, Trump.

Again, the subject was his so-called inflammatory use of the English language: Using uncivil speech to tell to truth. Here's a quote from them: What’s as disturbing, however, is Mr. Trump’s apparent instinct to respond to the protesters in kind. This includes his denunciations of free political speech. A few weeks ago he said he would rewrite the libel laws to sue the press to muzzle his critics. He has threatened this newspaper with a defamation suit merely because we noted his evident lack of knowledge about the Pacific trade deal. In Kansas City on Saturday he assailed “lying, thieving reporters.”

Now let's just take a look at those three words that apparently so upset these bright editorial boys and girls, "...lying, thieving reporters." Either these so-called take-the-moral-high-ground members of the Fourth Estate are ignorant of their own profession's history or just flat out ashamed of it.

So let's just remind them a bit. Not so long ago the prestigious Washington Post had an intern,  though supposedly under direct guidance of  a Pulitzer Prize winning writer for his Watergate reporting, who wrote a completely phony story about a minority kid that didn't exist. Not only did she write it, but the story itself was up for an award.

And again not too long ago a foreign correspondent for USA Today routinely turned in bogus stories. We used the plural case here. One only need exhume the name Hearst and the famous yellow journalism days of the 1920s. But let's press that fast forward button to more current times. 

During the tragedy that became Katrina, a well-known television anchor man claimed from the comfort of his Ritz Carlton hotel window he espied dead bodies floating past. There was only one problem, his hotel and the actual flooding were miles apart. This same upstanding journalist had a helicopter incident, no he's not a former central banker, that turned out to reportedly cost him his job.

We're only citing you here a few of the lessors offenses of journalists and their journalism. The WSJ's Heard on the Street popular column itself once had to relieve the journalist penning the column for his improprieties. Some might deem that lying and thieving since he was profiting from the inside information. 

There's an old saying: Never go to a gun fight with only a knife. But that's exactly how MSM views you and the rest of us. They think they're the only people who ever read and lived history.

wsj.com/articles/trump-and-the-protesters-1457909062