Boston Herald

The media has lost its marbles

- Adriana Cohen is host of “The Adriana Cohen Show,” heard at noon on Boston Herald Radio. Follow her on Twitter @AdrianaCoh­en16.

Just five months in, 2017 is going down in history as the year that gave us the worst media bias America has ever witnessed.

It’s worse than slanted, it’s flatout rigged against our president and he knows it. Yesterday at the Coast Guard Academy commenceme­nt ceremony, President Trump said, “Look at the way I have been treated lately, especially by the media. No politician in history, and I say this with great surety, has been treated worse or more unfairly.”

The days of honest, ethical journalism guided by facts, not political motives, have been replaced by agenda-driven activism by political operatives masqueradi­ng as mainstream media journalist­s.

Each and every week, they have manufactur­ed a continual cycle of “fake news” crises about the Trump administra­tion for the sole purpose of smearing the Republican leader so that Democrats can take back power in the midterms and 2020.

Hopefully voters are savvy enough to see through the daily smear campaign against our president by The Washington Post, The New York Times, the Huffington Post, the New York Daily News, the AP and scores of other left-leaning media outlets whose reporters wake up every morning with one goal: take down Trump.

Democratic leaders, CNN and other outlets have been pushing the false narrative that the Trump administra­tion may have colluded with the Kremlin to steal the election from Hillary Clinton. If there was any evidence to support that, rest assured it would have been leaked by now. There’s no there there. No evidence has been produced to suggest anyone committed a crime, let alone colluded with anyone.

Just this week the media lost its marbles over the notion Trump may have shared intelligen­ce with Russian officials in a recent White House visit. Never mind that there is no proof Trump divulged anything inappropri­ate, or that the media didn’t give a hoot when Obama did it last summer. Democrats get a pass.

Four dead Americans in Benghazi? The media yawned. Targeting of conservati­ves by the IRS during the Obama administra­tion? The media snored. Colluding with the Iranians in secret deals, with massive money transfers and releasing dangerous actors? That they considered a triumph of diplomacy. But if Trump orders two scoops of ice cream, he’s Dr. Evil and CNN devotes multiple segments to it.

Each and every day the words “impeachmen­t” and “Watergate” are floated by Democrats and anti-Trump media based on trumped-up, distorted informatio­n. Every week, they declare a new constituti­onal crisis.

But Trump won the election despite that toxic media environmen­t. Voters aren’t buying it anymore.

 ?? AP PHOTO ?? ‘TREATED WORSE’: President Trump gives the commenceme­nt address yesterday at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy.
AP PHOTO ‘TREATED WORSE’: President Trump gives the commenceme­nt address yesterday at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy.
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