Thursday, August 23, 2018

An Honest Journalist

An Honest Journalist by Bill Wilson   

Monday, I wrote about the whining journalists and called it "Beating a dead horse or the drum of truth."

Tuesday, a member of the Wall Street Journal editorial board, Jason L. Riley, agreed with my position in his Op/Ed, writing: "...the political press has decided that its job isn't merely to inform the public but also to take down the current White House, even if such efforts cost journalism what little credibility it has left.

"Last Thursday, hundreds of newspapers nationwide simultaneously published editorials attacking Mr. Trump in the guise of promoting a free press. Journalists who don't like what the president has said about the press might want to start behaving like objective reporters instead of liberal political activists."
Riley pointed out jobs and the economy as examples that Trump is not doing such a bad job.

Riley said, "Take the economy, which is faring better under Mr. Trump by many measures than it has in a generation or longer. Each week throughout this summer has brought almost nothing but economic sunshine. The pace of factory hiring has more than doubled since last year.

"A July survey from the National Federation of Independent Business notes that optimism among small-business owners, who employ nearly half the nation's private-sector workforce, is at levels not seen since 1983. Wages are also increasing, which was reflected in a Commerce Department report last week that showed retail sales-on groceries, restaurants and clothing-far exceeding economic forecasts and surging at double the rate of inflation.
"The best feature of this economic growth is its inclusiveness ....Older workers, women, minorities, seniors and the less-educated all are faring better in the labor force today than they did under [sic the previous] President. The jobless rate for Americans age 16 to 24 hit a 50-year low this summer. In May, the black unemployment rate dipped to 5.9%, the lowest number on record at the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

"People who had stopped looking for work are sending out resumes. More people are quitting jobs because they are confident that a better one awaits. Employers are increasing perks and benefits in an effort to attract new hires and keep the ones they already have. There were 6.7 million job openings last quarter, a 17-year high."
Riley concludes: "When the media reports this good news, the stories too often resemble a Democratic National Committee press release. The main objective is to assure you that Mr. Trump's tax cuts and regulatory reform had nothing to do with it, that his predecessor deserves the real credit or that it was all just inevitable. Hogwash."

And there you have it from one of the horse's mouths-a member of the mainstream media telling the truth. I knew there had to be at least one out there. This is almost an admission that there is a coup attempt taking place.

Riley calls them the political press...it's perhaps just the mainstream media.

As Ephesians 5:6 warns: "Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience."

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