Mainstream Media Scream: ABC’s Jonathan Karl rips Trump ‘crash’

Published February 20, 2017 4:27pm ET



This week’s Mainstream Media Scream features ABC White House correspondent Jonathan Karl taking on President Trump as he filled in as host of This Week Sunday.

In his commentary he ripped Trump’s attack on the media last week and separately asked if the new administration is “careening out of control.”



Karl:

We’ve never seen anything like it. We’re used to watching new presidents take office with choreographed policy plans, rolled out with carefully chosen words. But this? A machine gun blast of big promises, the rhetoric loud, aggressive, chaotic. The question: is this a fine-tuned machine delivering promise after promise at a record pace? Or, an administration careening out of control? And if it is, how bad will the crash be?


Media Research Center Research Director Rich Noyes explains our weekly pick: “Normally, a new president is given a ‘honeymoon’ by the news media, but journalists have treated President Trump to non-stop hostility since the day he took office. Now with his administration barely a month old, some in the media seem ready to declare it a failure. It’s no wonder Trump slams them as ‘fake news'” when their bias against him and his agenda is so obvious.”

Rating: Four of five screams.

Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected]