Posted on 06/01/2016 1:28:49 AM PDT by Pinkbell
The National Press Club president expressed alarm on Tuesday about Donald Trump’s dangerous attitude toward the First Amendment.
At a press conference earlier in the day, Trump had said “the press should be ashamed of themselves” for investigating his fundraising for veterans. Trump at one point called an ABC News reporter a “sleaze.” “You know my opinion of the media,” Trump said, “it’s very low.”
Two days before, Trump had told a crowd on the National Mall that reporters are “liars” and “lowlifes.”
Trump had previously called for making it easier for public figures to sue news organizations for libel, a change that would practically suffocate a free press and potentially disable some news companies.
What’s more, Trump’s campaign organization has blocked from his events news outlets whose coverage has not suited the candidate. And reporters who are allowed to attend must stay in “pens” rather than move about freely.
“Donald Trump misunderstands—or, more likely, simply opposes--the role a free press plays in a democratic society,” said Thomas Burr, the National Press Club president. “Reporters are supposed to hold public figures accountable. Any American political candidate who attacks the press for doing its job is campaigning in the wrong country. In the United States, under our Constitution, a free press is a check on politicians of all parties.”
“If we are to demand that other countries respect the tradition of a free press we must also practice that here at home,” Burr added.
The National Press Club is the world’s leading professional organization for journalists. Through its Press Freedom Committee, the club works to promote freedom of expression and transparency at home and abroad. The National Press Club Journalism Institute, a non-profit affiliate, equips news professionals with the skills to innovate, leverages emerging trends, recognizes innovators and mentors the next generation.
Probably ( at least partially). But it also defends those who bring out the truth about those things.
Trump only highlights the fact that ABC,NBC,CBS,MSNBC,CNN,etc and most local affiliates are spokesmen for the Democratic Party.
U.S. Repeals Propaganda Ban, Spreads Government-Made News to Americans
(2013)
http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/07/14/u-s-repeals-propaganda-ban-spreads-government-made-news-to-americans/
You can be sure that, when you throw a stone into a pack of dogs, the one that yelps is the one that got hit....
>>“Donald Trump misunderstands—or, more likely, simply opposes—the role a free press plays in a democratic society,” said Thomas Burr, the National Press Club president.
We’ve always asked the media, “how would you like it if the the first amendment was treated the way you treat the second.” Welcome to our world, liberal crybaby.
And Hillary ropes the reporters so they cannot reach her. Obama kicks reporters off his plane who are not properly sycophantic.
But the press remains silent.
Is this about DT not getting the donations he said he did? I heard it at vet friendly sites months ago. Come on, the guy is worth 4 billion and says it’s 10. he says he’s going to build the greatest golf course in the world and it loses money 3 years in a row.
Get over it. He exaggerates. Oh wait, he has to build the wall. Maybe he could hire illegals to work under the table and get it done with pre-planned loop-holes. Bwahahaha!
He’s a tyrant. But that’s what sheople need.
This nimrod doesn’t get it. Trump opposes liars. Trump likes the Constitution
Not any more.
Now the First Principle of "Journalism" is:
(We) Liberals are good and must be protected by any means possible, -and-
(Those) Conservatives are bad and must be destroyed by any means possible.
The Sleaze-by media creed.
John M. Donnelly — isn’t this the guy leading the communist Chamber of Commerce?
Taking the press to task for lying is not opposition to the First Amendment.
Actually, Big Corporate Media HATES the Constitution.
Instead of questioning and challenging Valerie’s man child or her bureaucrats, the bulk of so-called journalists in the National Press Club are sycophants.
Big Media hates anyone who won’t bow the knee to their oligarchy.
If these “scumbags” calling themselves journalists really did the job they were suppose to do instead of a propaganda machine for the LIBERAL DemoRAT Party, I guess they and we would have a problem, would we?
Under the leadership of people like Thomas Burr, reporters have failed miserably to do their jobs. When are they going to vet Obama? When are they going to look into the alleged sexual misconduct of former President Clinton?
When is Thomas Burr's free press going to vet Hillary Clinton? Have they ever?
Burr is projecting the abject failure of the National Press to do its job of responsible journalism. Is he not? Leftists often accuse the opposition of what they themselves are guilty of.
Trump doesn't care about the First Amendment? Sure. Forget about the fact the press often distorts what Trump says and the fact that the press is majority liberal, and their coverage often reflects it.Trump had previously called for making it easier for public figures to sue news organizations for libel, a change that would practically suffocate a free press and potentially disable some news companies.Some news companies need disabling, though the right way to do it would be with a class action suit by the Middle Class, demanding treble damages for violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act. It is not actually necessary IMHO to weaken the right of the people to print (or post on the Internet) truth or frank opinion about politicians. But when “news” is distorted by - in a particularly egregious example - the broadcasting of George Zimmerman’s “911” call with an answer and then a question subtly edited out, that is defamation not only of the “white hispanic” Mr. Zimmerman personally but, by manifest intention, of white people in general. We should all sue - and NBC should pay with its very heart’s blood.Not only so, but the Associated Press - which is the mechanism whereby “people of the same trade,” as Adam Smith put it, “meet together,” and “the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public” should have its very right to exist at all challenged. Its original, nominally legitimate mission was to conserver expensive communications bandwidth in disseminating the news widely. The bandwidth which it conserves now is actually dirt cheap, so the mission is obsolete but the damage to independence of presses which inheres in any and all wire services remains.
What’s more, Trump’s campaign organization has blocked from his events news outlets whose coverage has not suited the candidate. And reporters who are allowed to attend must stay in “pens” rather than move about freely.Hey, if it was good enough for CNN when dealing with Saddam Hussein . . .“Donald Trump misunderstands—or, more likely, simply opposes--the role a free press plays in a democratic society,” said Thomas Burr, the National Press Club president.Maybe so, but maybe he understands it too well. If they are weak enough to be pushed around by an entertainer/businessman the way CNN was pushed around by Saddam Hussein, then . . .But the central fact is that the Constitution intends that we should have free and independent presses, not one “associated” press with multiple front organizations. Which is what the AP and its membership actually is, and has been since memory of living man runneth not to the contrary.
Since the public pays newspapers to print bad news, criticism to the point of cynicism inheres in journalism. The point, surely (and stop calling me Shirley), is that the cynicism which inheres in journalism is not - repeat, NOT - objectivity. In fact, it is inherently tendentious, dismissing any distinction between the failures of “the man in the arena,” on the one hand, and the depredations of Clinton-style systematic evasions of responsibility, on the other.
“And reporters who are allowed to attend must stay in “pens” rather than move about freely.”
Hillary gave him this idea:
The media was only allowed to see her from one side and they were forced to walk that whole time from within their press pen.
I thought Hillary was strangely paranoid of a friendly press. I know that Trump should be paranoid of a hateful media.
Go Trump!!!
Hey Tom. let me know when you start checking Hillary.
The truth is often hard to swallow.
Thanks for the post/ping c_I_c. OUTSTANDING posts BUMP-TO-THE-TOP!
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