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To: BRL
As I've posted before...

The First Amendment guarantees the right of a free press TO THE PEOPLE; it does NOT guarantee the right of the New York Times or the Washington Post to exist in perpetuity.

If those "press" outlets fail to provide an honest product, a new press will emerge to replace them. "They" are not protected, the right of a free press is.

-PJ 

79 posted on 06/14/2016 4:39:12 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Political Junkie Too
The first amendment isn't implicated at all. Trump wields no government power. He is a private citizen. He has no power to prevent the WaPo or anybody else from publishing whatver it desidres, other than whatever power a public figure has via the civil law of defamation.

Some WaPo flack was on FoxNews last night claiming that Trump was banning the WaPo from reporting on Trump - another risible claim. Part of the most dishonest people in the country.

83 posted on 06/14/2016 4:57:57 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Political Junkie Too

Wash post and n y times like negros, illegals homosexuals and NPR are protected classes.
They all serve the dem cause and are a tool.


90 posted on 06/14/2016 5:10:07 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (Go Trump, Give em hell BABY.)
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