Conselheira
de Donald Trump sugere despedimento de jornalistas
Kellyanne
Conway questionou a ausência de despedimentos em órgãos de
comunicação social depois das notícias com "tendência
jornalística."
31 DE JANEIRO DE
2017
10:20
Luís Alves Vicente
A conselheira de
Donald Trump, e antiga diretora de campanha do presidente dos Estados
Unidos, Kellyanne Conway, sugeriu que alguns dos jornalistas e
comentadores que acompanharam as presidenciais norte-americanas
deveriam ser demitidos. "Se isto fosse um negócio a sério e os
órgãos de comunicação social principais estivessem no setor
privado em expansão, que realmente gerasse dividendos, 20 por cento
das pessoas tinham sido despedidas", exemplificou.
"As pessoas
[jornalistas] deviam estar envergonhadas. Nem uma pessoa de uma
estação foi despedida, nenhum comentador político que falou mal de
Donald Trump foi demitido", denunciou Kellyanne Conway, perante
o jornalista e entrevistador da Fox News, Chris Wallace. "Estão
a comentar todos os domingos, estão nos canais todos os dias. Onde
está o primeiro editor ou o primeiro blogger que vai ser despedido,
que envergonharam os títulos para onde escrevem? Nós sabemos os
seus nomes. Sou demasiado educada para os dizer. A eleição foi há
três meses e ninguém foi despedido."
Antes ainda, a
antiga CEO lamentou-se da cobertura jornalística em todos os
momentos da corrida à Casa Branca: "Houve uma campanha
anti-Trump enquanto candidato, presidente eleito e presidente. Os
media falharam em entender a América. A tendência jornalística é
fácil de ser detetada. Sinceramente ajuda-nos, porque a rejeição
desta eleição é uma rejeição das elites e do status quo. Quem é
que está a arrumar a casa? Qual vai ser a primeira estação a
livrar-se destas pessoas que disseram coisas que não são verdade?"
A conselheira de
Donald Trump denunciou ainda que "com a imprensa livre vem a
responsabilidade e a responsabilidade é dar a história bem" e
que "os media não fazem coberturas completas." Antes do
discurso desenfreado, Wallace procurou defender os companheiros de
profissão: "É ofensivo termos pessoas na Casa Branca há uma
semana a dar-nos lições sobre o que devemos ou não devemos fazer e
que devemos estar calados."
Esta tomada de
posição por parte da administração norte-americana já é um
padrão. Esta quinta-feira, o presidente norte-americano generalizou
os media, dizendo que os jornalistas inventavam e reportavam notícias
falsas. Também Steve Bannon, o responsável pela estratégia da Casa
Branca, comentou que os media "deveriam estar envergonhados e
humilhados e deveriam calar-se e ouvir de vez em quando."
Steve
Bannon is calling the shots in the White House. That's terrifying
Lawrence Douglas
He
is unvetted, unconfirmed but immensely powerful – all thanks to the
undisciplined and distracted Donald Trump
Tuesday 31 January
2017 16.28 GMT
That didn’t take
long. From no-drama Obama to all-trauma Trump: the shift has been
seismic, leaving millions in this country and abroad frightened and
struggling to make sense of America’s new political landscape.
Some of the upheaval
appears to be the consequence of incompetence, the predictable result
of an under-qualified real estate mogul struggling to master the most
powerful and demanding job on the planet.
But not so with the
travel ban. In this case, upheaval was the intent – not to the
degree we have seen; that clearly caught the administration off
guard. But it was upheaval nonetheless.
As we now know, the
drafting and rollout of the travel ban was largely the work of Steve
Bannon, the president’s chief political strategist. It was Bannon
who reportedly overruled the proposal to exempt green card holders
from the ban. And it was Bannon who pushed the order through without
consulting experts at the Department of Homeland Security or at the
state department.
The Nacht und Nebel
quality of the ban’s announcement makes clear that the president’s
chief strategist wanted to send tremors through the world. Here was
bold proof that the portentous accents of Trump’s inaugural
address, also Bannon’s work, was not mere rhetoric.
Now the world would
know what “America First” means – not first in democracy or
human rights; not first in recognizing an obligation to victims of
humanitarian crisis (some of which we have helped create). No, this
was America first in pugilism, parochialism and misplaced
protectionism.
Some insist that all
this is simply Bannon throwing meat to the president’s base,
plucking a page from Karl Rove’s playbook. Rove, the chief
strategist for George W Bush (for whom many are now feeling a once
inconceivable nostalgia), famously sought to consolidate his boss’s
power not by tacking toward the middle but by feeding the base.
Only it would be
wrong to see Bannon as Rove 2.0. At his heart, Rove was a consummate
political operator, for whom ideology was a tool, not an article of
belief. Rove was a careerist and an opportunist, whose principal goal
was the preservation and expansion of Republican political power.
Bannon is an
altogether different creature. Listen to his early speeches. Bannon
is a crusader, fighting to redeem a corrupt country betrayed by its
feckless and greedy leaders. He once described himself as a
“Leninist”, intent on destroying “all of today’s
establishment”.
For Bannon, America
is engaged in a pitched struggle against threats from within and
without. It is a battle that will last years, and requires iron
resolve and steely determination. If the free press, a bastion of
democratic self-governance, does not grasp these elusive truths, then
it should “keep its mouth shut”, he says.
Bannon is not the
president’s servant. The president is his tool. For years, Bannon
cast about for the proper vehicle to carry the fight forward. Sarah
Palin, Rick Perry –they were considered possible material. Now in
Donald Trump he has found adequate if imperfect stuff. Both are
workaholics. Both share a protectionist mindset. Both are combative.
But Bannon, in
contrast to the president, is not easily distracted. He is
intelligent, articulate, focused in his ideology and dedicated to the
struggle. And he has now been catapulted by an undisciplined
president to the inner precincts of the National Security Council and
its principals’ committee, assuming a position senior to the
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the director of national
intelligence.
Unvetted,
unconfirmed but immensely powerful, Bannon may just be the most
dangerous man in America.
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