One of the major stories in the media yesterday was how Jeff Bezos was complaining that the National Enquirer was trying to extort money unless Bezos stops trying to find out the source of the racy photos to the Enquirer. I saw a journalist at the New York Times on the Today show on Friday morning say how important it is to know the source of stories and to be transparent.  It is truly rich and disingenuous of anyone at the NYT, the WaPo, or any other mainstream news outlet to talk about the need to know the source of articles when they all run so many stories based on anonymous sources and without evidence. Then we hear how the National Enquirer spiked stories on Trump and how bad that is, as if they don't spike stories every day to hide from the public things they don't want the public to see, while they gladly target Trump and Republicans based on anonymous stories with no evidence. For over two years, the media have been targeting Trump with the...(Read Full Post)