It’s been a rough week for journalism. Sure, you could find a story or two each week where a media outlet showed incredible bias or messed up a major story (usually due to bias), but this past week was especially embarrassing for the profession.
As Hurricane Florence bore down on the East Coast, news outlets rushed to blame President Donald Trump for the storm. The Washington Post editorial board wrote an article titled “Another hurricane is about to batter our coast. Trump is complicit.” In it, they argued that Trump is “complicit” to extreme weather because he “plays down humans’ role in increasing the risks, and he continues to dismantle efforts to address those risks.” Absolutely nothing Trump could have done in the aftermath of the 2017 hurricanes could have prevented Hurricane Florence.
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