For more than 20 years, the debate about media bias — what the media choose to report and how they report it, leaning either left or right — has raged.
The present relationship between President Donald Trump and the media, which can best be described as adversarial, is but the latest manifestation of that.
From the White House transcript of the first White House Press Association dinner of the Obama administration, May 9, 2009:
“I’m Barack Obama. Many of you covered me, and all of you voted for me.” The audience response — laughter and applause.
Has anything changed?
Terence McManus, New Sharon
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