The news media are overdoing it on Republican nominee Donald Trump and its working to his advantage, according to conservative Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan.
In her latest column, Noonan, a former Reagan speechwriter, said that journalists are showing an obvious contempt for Trump and his supporters and that it will have an unintended consequence.
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“More than half the country is willing to believe the media are essentially dishonest and mobby, that they function either consciously or not as Democratic operatives, that they don’t have to like Mrs. Clinton (and they don’t) to function in this way, and that they feel nothing but disrespect for Mr. Trump, his followers and everything they represent,” she wrote. “But a lot of TV journalists are particularly upfront and out there now about their antipathy, in part because they’re honestly alarmed — this guy could really become president — and in part because it is not respectable not to hate him. But they are starting to make him look sympathetic.”
Trump has, to great effect, used the media at large as a target to rally his supporters against, dubbing reporters in general as “dishonest” and “unfair.”
Though Trump has received the benefit of free attention from journalists and news cameras, much of the press have also been quick to accuse him of appealing to white supremacists and anti-semites.
“His media foes should watch out for a boomerang effect,” said Noonan.
