Posted on 08/03/2018 9:27:34 AM PDT by davikkm
It was another week of aggression between Trump supporters and the mainstream media. During a Trump rally in Tampa, Florida on Tuesday, CNN correspondent Jim Acosta was lambasted with chants of “CNN sucks!” while covering the event. This prompted Acosta to go on twitter to blame Trump for the increasing hostility toward the media and to exclaim that “the press is not the enemy.”
Two days after the initial showdown between Acosta and the raucous Trump crowd, Acosta confronted Sarah Huckabee Sanders in a press briefing to ask her if she considered the press an enemy of the people. Sanders refused to say the press wasn’t the enemy and, again, Acosta went to Twitter in an outrage.
Scores of people shared in Acosta’s sentiment that Trump and his supporters’ demonization of the press was dangerous and undemocratic. But I think those people are forgetting to ask themselves an extremely important question: in what world is CNN a bastion of free and independent journalism?
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Absolutely.
For only half of the people. The other half are stupid enough to believe their fake news.
Yes.
Until demonstrated otherwise.
YES!
It is not for Sarah to say. It is for the People to decide, and there are a lot of us who vote - enemy of the people, indisputably.
Is the Press an Enemy of the People?
Yes, they are the opposition ‘party’ and they control most all of the airways. Propaganda at its finest :(
The American press is — first and foremost — an enemy of the American People.
Does the bear poop in the woods?
Is the Press an Enemy of the People?
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Most of them are....yes. Next question?
Foxnews, RT are not that bad.
Yes.
Next.
No question.
Thanks to this President they’ve been exposed and it’s slowly driving them insane.
But the other side of the coin is that there is tremendous opportunity for honest, thorough, dependable journalism now.
Let’s see, hitlary is and 96% backed her sooooo......
Yup, and the propaganda arm of the Socialist Democrat Party.
a leftard press is incompatible with the American peoples' values, so it is an enemy of the people
Is the Press an Enemy of the People?
Hell yes, I’ve been saying that for at least 10 years.
“The press” is too broad a category. It loses effect and sounds cliche
CNN is FAKE NEWS was a much better narrative. Specific, and easy for people to grasp. You can never have victory over “the press” but you can defeat CNN or the NY Times specifically.
Not sure where I ever heard this but I believe that the 4th estate is the 5th column in America.
Those who deliberately propagate fake news definitely are.
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