Defending the Free Press

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'Expression, and the right to publish it, is a human right. And yet, President Trump continues to disregard this.

The media is not the enemy of the people. The enemy of the people is ignorance — obliviousness to truth, ignoring it or having incredulity about it.

There is no way to have a functioning democracy without a thriving press.

One of the great missions of the press is to hold power accountable by revealing what those in power would rather hide. Corruption depends on concealment. Accountability hinges on disclosure.

The founders of this country knew that. I also think Donald Trump knows that and that he is purposely attempting to prune that function.

A free and fearless press is the greatest ally to a free and prosperous people.'>>>

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/05/opinion/trump-free-press.html?

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1. unfortunately, the free press has already bent far too much to the will of power

not to say that there aren't good sources out there, there certainly is good information and good reporting and ever good editorializing.

but the msm takes its cues from obviously biased sources such as hate radio, foxnews, and the republican party. time and time again, the bulk of the media dwells on topics that the right-wing has chosen to distract us from real issues of the day, or to further their own agenda, or to drive opponents down.

how the hell does a free press give endless coverage to ridiculous pseudo-scandals like hillary's emails and benghazi?
how the hell does a free press give breathless attention to the racist and idiotic claim that obama wasn't a natural-born citizen?
how the hell does a free press insist that the only climate change topic, if any, worth talking about is whether or not it's real, instead of what are we going to do about it, how bad is it, how bad will it be, and how will we pay for it?

yes, donald fraud is trying to "work the ref" and bash the media to keep it fearful of him and to secure coverage in his favor.

but it's not enough for the media to simply object.

the media must actually do its job. stop taking cues from the right-wing. stop admiring how donald fraud can retain power despite blatant criminality. start talking about how corrupt out country is and will be if donald fraud is allowed to continue pulling this crap. start talking about how the founders never intended the senate to refuse to remove a criminal president simply because they were of the same party.

start taking donald fraud's scandals a fraction of how seroiusly they took hilllary's "scandals", ffs. it's ridiculous how hillary's campaign was destroyed over the mere prospect that russians might, theoretically, have gained access to her emails, when donald fraud can stand up and beg them to commit espionage, then have private conversations with them while he has business interests in russia.

ffs.

please, the media needs to give donald fraud at least a fraction of the sh*t they gave hillary. remember when hillary couldn't get a word in edgewise during her campaign because all the media wanted to talk about were her "scandals"?

isn't it time we please gave donald fraud this treatment?

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2. One more example

proving the Biblical statement that the love of money is the root of all evil!