New York Times columnist Paul Krugman is convinced the press is pro-GOP nominee Donald Trump.
And not by just a little bit, Krugman wrote in an op-ed published Tuesday, alleging the press is pretty much all-in for the Republican candidate.
“It’s not even false equivalence: compare the amount of attention given to the Clinton Foundation despite absence of any evidence of wrongdoing, and attention given to Trump Foundation, which engaged in more or less open bribery — but barely made a dent in news coverage,” the Nobel Prize-winning economist complained in an article titled “Why Are The Media Objectively Pro-Trump?”
“Clinton was harassed endlessly over failure to give press conferences, even though she was doing lots of interviews; Trump violated decades of tradition by refusing to release his taxes, amid strong suspicion that he is hiding something; the press simply dropped the subject,” he wrote.
Others have suggested the press is fairer to Trump than Clinton because newsrooms are worried about access.
Krugman said it’s more than that.
“It doesn’t explain why the Clinton emails were a never-ending story but the disappearance of millions of George W. Bush emails wasn’t, or for that matter Jeb Bush’s deletion of records; the revelation that Colin Powell did, indeed, offer HRC advice on how to have private email the way he did hasn’t even been reported by some major news organizations,” the Times columnist wrote.
“And I don’t see how the huffing and puffing about the foundation — which ‘raised questions’, but where the media were completely unwilling to accept the answers they found — fits into this at all,” he wrote.
The answer must be that there is some sort of high school-ish desire on the part of reporters to bully Clinton, the “nerdy classmate,” because that’s what the “cool” kids do.
“And as I feared, it looks as if people who cried wolf about non-scandals are now engaged in an all-out effort to dig up or invent dirt to justify their previous Clinton hostility,” Krugman wrote.
“Hard to believe that such pettiness could have horrifying consequences. But I am very scared,” he added.
