The Patriot Post® · Wednesday Opinion
Today’s Editors’ Choice
- L. Brent Bozell & Tim Graham: Democracy Dies in Anonymous Sourcing
- Ed Feulner: Deep-Sixing the Paris Agreement
- Star Parker: Trump Should Move U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem
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Opinion in Brief
L. Brent Bozell & Tim Graham: “In the current hothouse environment, with liberal media that define Trump as the antonym of democracy, the public should be wary of anonymous sources. This is especially true today. Newspapers that crusaded against Trump in their pages — both news sections and editorial pages — simply cannot be trusted. Theirs is not the pursuit of truth; it’s the hunt for Donald J. Trump’s scalp. Earth to the [Washington] Post: Your new motto is ‘Democracy Dies in Darkness,’ but anonymous sourcing is darkness. Every source who hides behind a wall as he tries to ruin other people’s careers is a self-serving coward with a personal or political axe to grind. Without knowing an identity, the public has no way of telling anything. It’s idiotic for the press to demand transparency in government at the exact same time it rewards government officials who refuse to be transparent themselves. Journalists pat themselves on the back that they would never be ‘stenographers to power,’ but they’re worse than that now. In their zeal to destroy Trump, they’ve become stenographers to anonymous power.”