Why do my fellow journalists praise that anti-media prosecutor Donald Trump fired? | Mulshine
Posted on March 14, 2017 at 6:26 AM
BY PAUL MULSHINE
There is one phenomenon that I have never understood in the many years I have been in the news racket: the adulation many of my colleagues have for crusading prosecutors.
Am I the only one who’s noticed that these guys rarely return the favor?
A case in point is outgoing U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara. When his name appeared on the list of U.S. Attorneys who were asked to resign by President Trump last week, a great wave of keening and wailing went up from the press.
Typical was the New York Times, which ran this headline on a supposedly objective news article: “With Bharara’s Dismissal, Storied New York Office Loses Its Top Fighter.”
Storied?
