Other outlets called outright for the president to back down. After Senator Cory Gardner of Colorado supported the reopening of the government — the first Republican senator to do so — Colorado Peak Politics, which bills itself as the state’s “conservative bully pulpit,” published an editorial titled “END THE SHUTDOWN.”
David Brody, the chief political correspondent for the Christian Broadcasting Network, which reaches a largely evangelical Christian audience, said he had been focusing not so much on the policy issues as on “the breakdown of civility between Democrats and Republicans.”
“From a Christian perspective, that’s been a big part,” Mr. Brody said in a phone interview.
As the debate raged in many parts of the nation, others remained unperturbed. It seemed at times that the big divide was not over who was right — in conservative circles, many people agreed that it was the president — but over how important it really was.
“People are not as concerned out here about the shutdown and don’t feel affected,” Jim Hoft, founder and editor of The Gateway Pundit, said in a phone interview, referring to the Midwest. That being said, he added that many conservatives in the Midwest felt that Democrats were preventing Mr. Trump from making the country safer, and that most of his readers “support the president on this issue.”
For many Americans, as federal workers missed their first paycheck, the effects became more visceral, and the blame game less important. That was reflected in the Cincinnati Enquirer’s article on the I.R.S. protests this week.
The story quoted a union leader, Debbie Mullikin, saying that some furloughed workers were at risk of homelessness. “Mullikin said she isn’t sure who to blame for the shutdown,” the article said, “but that isn’t the point.”
Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/11/us/politics/government-shutdown-media-coverage.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
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