The Patriot Post® · Wednesday Opinion

Today’s Editors’ Choice

• Ben Shapiro: Trump Didn’t Ruin the Media. Obama Did.
• Star Parker: Draining the Dodd-Frank Swamp
• John Stossel: Fly Better
• Ed Feulner: The Bureaucrat Behind the Curtain

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Opinion in Brief

Ben Shapiro: “Trump didn’t do anything aside from failing to comply with media’s standards of behavior. He didn’t pander to them or treat them with respect. And the media melted down. They treated Trump horribly, of course — but they’d already treated Bush and Romney just as badly. More importantly, the media lost their ability to pretend having standards of honesty and decency after selling their souls to the Obama White House. It was difficult to take their cries of incipient tyranny seriously after they bent over backward to flatter a White House that cracked down on reporters from Fox News and the Associated Press. Why does any of this matter? It matters because conservatives would be wise to understand that Trump didn’t destroy the media; he inherited the shell of a media ready to crumble. He tapped the shell, and it fell apart. But that’s not enough. Trump now has a golden opportunity to promulgate an alternative narrative in place of the one pushed by the discredited leftist media — if he can demonstrate credibility himself.”