In a late Friday post, the McClatchy news service freaked out over the revelation that Republicans and right-of-center strategists are gunning to make the 2018 midterm elections a referendum on liberal media bias, contrasted with the strategy of liberals and their media allies to focus on President Trump.
Written by reporters Alex Roarty and Lindsay Wise, the piece appeared as if the worst nightmares of CNN’s Dylan Byers will be coming to life:
[give_form id=”79809″] [contentcards url=”http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2017/06/05/freaked-out-mcclatchy-upset-gop-wants-liberal-media-bias” target=”_blank”]Conservative radio hosts mock a physical assault on a reporter. A GOP governor blasts a reporter on Twitter as “a sick man.” The president accuses the media of being an “enemy of the people.”
This is not run-of-the-mill Republican criticism of the press anymore. It is now a deliberate strategy to help GOP candidates win elections fueled by public hatred of reporters.