In the olden days, journalists reported the news. Under propagandists like Dan Rather, they began to invent the news so as to brainwash the gullible into believing in their narrative. Now, succumbing to both political fanaticism and malignant narcissism, they make themselves the news.

From the New York Post:

A group of over 250 journalists implored members of the Beltway press corps to “forcefully demonstrate opposition” to President Trump at the ritzy White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday.

This will be the first White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) dinner Trump has attended as president. Liberal media piranhas will try to make it his last.

The WHCA, which represents the White House press corps, is organizing the annual dinner and has clashed with Trump repeatedly over the past year.

When last we encountered Dan Rather, CBS was forced to fire him for using forged documents to prop up lies about George W. Bush’s military service. Like a bad penny, he turns up again:

Prominent veteran journalists such as former CBS News anchor Dan Rather, infamous for erroneous reporting on President George W. Bush’s military service, and former ABC News anchor Sam Donaldson signed the missive.

Here I was thinking Sam Donaldson had retired back to whatever planet Klingons come from.

Groups such as the Society of Professional Journalists, the Coalition for Women in Journalism, the National Association of Black Journalists, the Freedom of the Press Foundation, and more signed it as well.

That these groups are about advancing Cultural Marxist rather than reporting the news is often obvious in their names.

Don Lemon has pioneered the practice of supposed journalists casting themselves in the starring role in contrived news stories, having gotten himself arrested for his participation in a raid on a St. Paul church during services. No word on whether he signed too.

The call for protests comes amid polling pegging trust in the media at all-time lows, particularly among Republican voters. Last year, Gallup found that only 28% of the public has a great or fair amount of trust in mass media.

Sun Tzu gave sound advice when he said, “If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him.” Driven into a state of perpetual rage by Trump Derangement Syndrome, the legacy media has set itself up as the enemy of Trump. This raises Trump in public esteem — the exact opposite of what “journalists” hope to accomplish.

On a tip from abcanc.