Dishonest...

 

The Associated Press published a bombshell report on a civil rights lawsuit brought by numerous immigrant children. They were allegedly held at a detention center in Virginia and subject to brutal abuse, including being “beaten while handcuffed and locked up for long periods in solitary confinement, left nude and shivering in concrete cells.”  

In the original report, readers had to make it through over 20 paragraphs before learning that most of the alleged abuse took place under the Obama administration. 

We need a strong and professional journalism industry, not one that is interested in cheap, dishonest tactics meant to smear the president.  A media that regularly shreds its own credibility with Trump voters, for one, but also with the larger body politic — is ill-suited to take on that kind of threat.

Be honest. Tell the truth. Don’t lie. Don’t trick. These are rules every journalist should follow. We should not think we have the luxury of slapdash journalism. It is bad for the industry and ultimately bad for the country.       [Daniel Payne is an assistant editor at "The College Fix" and blogs at  TrialoftheCentury.net.]