In a blatant display of prewritten-narrative “journalism,” reporters for ABC and CNN desperately tried to get Martin Luther King III to disparage President-elect Donald Trump after the two met Monday at Trump Tower. Despite multiple attempts to get MLK’s son to condemn Trump for daring to push back against civil rights leader John Lewis, the reporters failed to get the sensational headline they were clearly hoping to elicit — and yet again demonstrated why the American people are tuning them out.
After King told reporters that his meeting with the president-elect was “very constructive,” three media members tried particularly hard to get something resembling headline-worthy criticism of Trump to publish on MLK Day. The play: get King to slam Trump for criticizing Congressman Lewis, who enjoys a special status among his colleagues for the high-profile role he played in civil rights movement.
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