Posted on 04/30/2017 7:04:09 PM PDT by blam
Actually the Media is what’s bad for the country!
"I think what...the president is doing right now, to be frank, in regards to the media, is dangerous. I think that he is portraying the media as his enemy. I think he is making the media sort of the punching bag. It illustrates, perhaps, not understanding the role of the media. We're supposed to be tough. We're supposed to ask him hard questions. I'm not sure he gets that. I think the more he beats us up, to be frank, I think that's bad for the country. (emphasis added)"
Now, let us turn elsewhere for views on the press:
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"From forty years' experience of the wretched guess-work of the newspapers of what is not done in open daylight, and of their falsehood even as to that, I rarely think them worth reading, and almost never worth notice."
"Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day."
"As for what is not true, you will always find abundance in the newspapers."
"Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper."
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The author of this quotes about the press? Thomas Jefferson.
The country survived Jefferson's bashing of the press, Mr. Baquet. It wasn't dangerous then, and it isn't dangerous now. We'll be fine. However, you may want to keep looking over your shoulders, lest you get Abramsonized.
keep stompin yer little foot NYT- it’s really helping increase readership- oops, my bad- it isn’t
... And the “We Can Dish It Out But We Can’t Take It” Award goes to..... (Drum roll)....
The New York Times!!!
deahmarch, see ya
LOL! I remember when the next door neighbor boy told my brother, “Scotty, I’m going to hit you but don’t you hit me back.” The kid went home crying.....
What does the moron call the phony made up news attack on Trump? Good business
This individual, and his organization were proven (on Tuesday, November 8th) to be irrelevant. The mass media’s collective ego can’t handle that fact. 100 days into the presidency they were supposed to prevent, and the media is still crying.
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