That the establishment press despises New Media isn’t exactly breaking news, but a lesser-known subset of that tension has just become more visible. As usual, an Old Media outlet is the smear merchant, and the New Media site has the upper hand on the truth.

Mainstream business journalists really despise the financial and economics blogs which puncture the insufferable “the economy is just fine” meme the financial wires have relentlessly foisted on us during the past seven years. When leading contrarian blog Zero Hedge had a recent fallout among its top authors, Bloomberg News sensed a chance to smear a site it has had to grudgingly recognize as a genuine competitor. Instead, the wire service committed the types of journalistic errors which explain why only six percent of Americans “say they have a lot of confidence in the media.”

Uh oh. Ted Cruz is really in trouble with the New York Times now, after attacking Donald Trump for saying people should be able to use the restroom of whatever gender they now identify with. On the trail in Indiana, reporter Trip Gabriel took time out of his packed schedule to deliver a condescending lecture to the ignorant locals about transgenders in “Cruz, in Indiana, Attacks Trump for Supporting Transgender Rights.” Columnist Gail Collins piled on: “Ted Cruz continues to astound. Every time it appears he can’t get more awful, he finds a new avenue, like a ground mole sniffing out a beetle.”

Al informar sobre las protestas ocurridas afuera de uno de los actos políticos de Donald Trump en el sur de California, el reportero de Univisión Enrique Acevedo decidió lanzar una indirecta contra el principal aspirante a la candidatura presidencial por el partido Republicano.

On Friday evening, during a discussion of violent protests at the Republican convention in California, CNN anchors Erin Burnett and John Berman on two different programs both seemed oddly worried that an innocent joke Donald Trump made about sneaking across the border would exacerbate tensions. On Erin Burnett Outfront, host Burnett wondered if the levity was “stoking the flames,” and, an hour later, as he substitute hosted Anderson Cooper 360, Berman visibly winced as he recalled the joke and asked if it was “a smart joke to make, given the circumstances?”

“MSNBC can’t spell,” joked a tipster on Saturday morning. There is was, posted since Friday afternoon at 3:42 — a story headlined “The Monica Lewsinksy jokes are back.” One could be making a pun, since President Clinton “finished in the sink.” But there’s no indication of a joke in the story. MSNBC reporter Jane C. Timm is deadly serious about this terrible trend of “bullying” Lewinsky with jokes about her fiasco of an affair with Bill Clinton.

Jane C. Timm actually boasts on her LinkedIn profile: ” I cut my teeth in the industry working as researcher at the [far-left] Village Voice for investigative reporter Wayne Barrett and later as a national politics fact checker at Rolling Stone.” A fact-checker at Rolling Stone would face a very serious problem, indeed, after their fraudulent campus-rape story…but maybe she could have fixed her own headine here.

ABC and CBS’s evening newscasts on Friday spotlighted the friendly transatlantic trash-talking between the British and American heads of state. However, the programs failed to cover the latest too-close intercept of American military assets by Russian aircraft. On World News Tonight, ABC’s David Muir touted “the royal mic drop — the Queen and Prince Harry responding to the First Family’s challenge” over the upcoming Invictus Games for wounded veterans. On CBS Evening News, Scott Pelley trumpeted that “it’s not often that the Queen gets involved in a Twitter war. She and Prince Harry traded barbs with President and Mrs. Obama.”

Um… Could you anti-Trump protesters please not display so many Mexican flags when protesting against Trump? You might not realize it but it will only help him in the California primary in June.

That is the big worry of the Los Angeles Times in reporting about the protests against Donald Trump yesterday in Costa Mesa. Here is the Times wringing its hands in worry as reported by Ruben Vives and Shelby Grad, about the “unintended consequences” of displaying the Mexican flag which proved counter-productive in the past:

Reporting on the protests that occurred outside Donald Trump’s most recent rally in Southern California, Univision anchor Enrique Acevedo decided to throw in an easy cheap-shot at the Republican Party’s leading candidate for President. Acevedo actually did report on the anti-Trump protestors causing chaos – smashing windows, vandalizing police vehicles, getting arrested and throwing rocks at officers – but then, seemingly, tried to justify the actions of those protestors by accusing Trump of “insisting on his anti-immigrant rhetoric” during the speech he gave to his supporters at the rally.