The media has been emitting loud noises about Trump's threat to the free press. What free press? There is no freedom of the press when it comes to criticizing the left. Here's Case #5109.
You may remember the outrage that resulted when the Dyke March booted Jewish marchers for waving gay rights flags with stars of david on them. For, they admitted, having stars of david on them. The Dyke March organizers defended their anti-Semitism and blamed the Windy City Times reporter who ran the story.
And the Windy City Times appears to have penalized the reporter.
An award-winning journalist who broke the story of the group of Jewish women ejected from an LGBTQ march in Chicago last month has been reassigned to non-journalistic duties at the paper which ran the original report, the Windy City Times.
Gretchen Rachel Hammond — whose June 24 story caused a national storm after she detailed how three women flying Jewish Pride flags embossed with the Star of David were instructed to leave the gathering by organizers from the Dyke March Collective — confirmed to The Algemeiner on Monday that while she was still employed by the paper, she was not presently engaged in its reporting and writing operations.
“At this time, I have not been fired from Windy City Times, but I have been transferred to working full time for the sales department,” Hammond explained in an emailed statement. “The reasoning is an internal matter and I have been instructed not to comment about it even to close friends. Given my present situation, I must comply with this instruction.”
While nothing has been confirmed, and maybe it's all a coincidence, it's not hard to imagine how this went down.
The intersectional left has a blueprint for these cases. They claim that their members have received death threats. They blame irresponsible media coverage. They sneer at the idea that freedom of the press is more important than the lives of the oppressed.
And voila, censorship.
The outrage? Keep waiting for it. Once again a message has been sent. And the message is that there's no freedom of the press on the left.
If the media really wants some credibility when it comes to free press tantrums, they might actually defend reporters who get into trouble running stories that the left doesn't like.