Michelle Fields has tweeted her thanks to women in media who have her back. They signed a letter asking the Trump campaign to fire campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, accused by Fields of jostling her with a disputed degree of severity when she approached Trump after a news conference in Florida March 8 to ask a question.
Actual journalism has a hard time these days finding a foothold in the media. The list of signatories to the letter asking for the head of Corey Lewandowski runs heavily to conservative partisans who didn’t like Trump in the first place. For instance, there’s “conservatarian” Dana Loesch of Blaze TV (home of Glenn Beck), who’s the author of Hands Off My Gun and thinks Trump’s squishy on the Second Amendment; blogger Emily Zanotti of the staid American Spectator and R Street Institute; syndicated columnist Mona Charen, who had a piece in the National Review a while back called “Donald Trump Doesn’t Have the Character to Be President”; and America Now radio’s Meghan McCain, who’s the daughter of Senator John McCain, whom Trump famously called a putz for getting himself captured in Vietnam.
Fields made no attempt to pretend she, or it, was anything of the sort. Kelly showed a clip of Trump saying he doubted the incident even happened, and then asked what Fields thought about that.
And if you’re a fan of old-fashioned journalism, that acknowledgement is something.
