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The NY Post agrees: The press declares war on Trump
By Post Editorial Board
January 18, 2017 | 9:00pm

As Donald Trump gets set to take office, the press corps has erupted in smugness — and prepared for war.

Start with the furor when Team Trump suggested moving daily press briefings from the White House to the Executive Office Building next door.

Requests to cover the new president are off the charts, and the old site has just 49 seats. But the press corps saw only conspiracy — the start, one scribe wrote, “of washing the press completely out of his fake hair.” Never mind, said Trump — warning they’ll “be begging for a much larger room pretty soon.”

Other media types want to abolish the White House Correspondents Dinner, the annual gala at which reporters and celebs rub elbows and the president is the traditional guest of honor. How can they possibly honor .?.?. Trump?

Especially when they’ve declared war.

The Washington Post’s media columnist predicts that “Trump’s reign will probably be awash in investigations of investigations and prosecutions of journalists for doing their jobs” — never mind that President Obama has been doing precisely that.

The New York Times ran a front-page opinion piece declaring that with a “demagogue” in the White House, “you have to throw out the textbook” and “move closer” than ever “to being oppositional.”

Jack Shafer, Politico’s senior media writer, called on reporters “to start thinking of covering Trump’s Washington like a war zone.” More: “It’s time to circle behind enemy lines.”

And the editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, presuming to speak for the entire press corps, penned an open letter basically telling Trump, We make the rules, and We’ll call out your lies, repeatedly.

The press openly planning to treat the president of the United States as the enemy? Tragic — but all too predictable.

The high and mighty are suffering a grand case of what could be called Irritable Beltway Syndrome. Do your jobs, folks, and quit with the grandiose posturing.

http://nypost.com/2017/01/18/the-press-declares-war-on-trump/