". . . he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him." - Jefferson
Posted on 01/09/2018 9:22:58 AM PST by rktman
The Committee to Protect Journalists credited President Donald Trump with the “Overall Achievement in Undermining Global Press Freedom” in its “Press Oppressors” awards Monday.
The event was reportedly organized in response to Trump’s plan to bestow “Fake News” awards, which he claims has generated “far greater [interest] than anyone could have anticipated.”
The Fake News Awards, those going to the most corrupt & biased of the Mainstream Media, will be presented to the losers on Wednesday, January 17th, rather than this coming Monday. The interest in, and importance of, these awards is far greater than anyone could have anticipated!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 7, 2018
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As opposed to all the tinpot dictators out there who throw reporters into ACTUAL prisons.
The left re-defines criticism to mean oppression. If that’s the case they are the #1 oppressor of Trump and America.
Thomas Jefferson's views on the importance of a free press are well known. Nevertheless, Jefferson was well aware of the dark under belly of a segment of the press which might set itself up, as he called it, "to serve the ministers" of a "despotic government.""Nothing is so mistaken as the supposition, that a person is to extricate himself from a difficulty, by intrigue, by chicanery, by dissimulation, by trimming, by an untruth, by an injustice. This increases the difficulties ten fold; and those who pursue these methods, get themselves so involved at length, that they can turn no way but their infamy becomes more exposed. It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible; and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world’s believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions." - See "Letter to Peter Carr, August 19, 1785," in Thomas Jefferson: Writings (New York: The Library of America, 1984), pp. 814-815.". . . he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him." - Jefferson
Note that in the last of the following quotations on the subject, Jefferson noted, "But the fact being once established, that the press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood," he declared, "I leave to others to restore it to its strength by recalling it within the pale of truth."
"[A despotic] government always [keeps] a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any regard to truth or to what should be like truth, [invent] and put into the papers whatever might serve the ministers. This suffices with the mass of the people who have no means of distinguishing the false from the true paragraphs of a newspaper." --Thomas Jefferson to G. K. van Hogendorp, Oct. 13, 1785. (*) ME 5:181, Papers 8:632"[I have seen] repeated instances of the publication of what has not been intended for the public eye, and the malignity with which political enemies torture every sentence from me into meanings imagined by their own wickedness only... Not fearing these political bull-dogs, I yet avoid putting myself in the way of being baited by them, and do not wish to volunteer away that portion of tranquillity, which a firm execution of my duties will permit me to enjoy." --Thomas Jefferson to John Norvell, 1807. ME 11:226
"Conscious that there was not a truth on earth which I feared should be known, I have lent myself willingly as the subject of a great experiment, which was to prove that an administration, conducting itself with integrity and common understanding, cannot be battered down even by the falsehoods of a licentious press, and consequently still less by the press as restrained within the legal and wholesome limits of truth. This experiment was wanting for the world to demonstrate the falsehood of the pretext that freedom of the press is incompatible with orderly government. I have never, therefore, even contradicted the thousands of calumnies so industriously propagated against myself. But the fact being once established, that the press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood, I leave to others to restore it to its strength by recalling it within the pale of truth. Within that, it is a noble institution, equally the friend of science and of civil liberty." --Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Seymour, 1807. ME 11:155
AS I recall it was Trump’s predecessor who intercepted journalist’s phone conversations, hacked a journalist’s computer and filed criminal charges against a fox journalist for reporting leaks from a government whistle-blower.
oh please.
It seems to me that these “journalists” are more than free to spread any fake story they want to spread without repercussions. President Trump points out their lies but I don’t see where he has oppressed anyone.
They soil their undershorts and blame Trump.
How is he oppressing reporters? By using Twitter to get his message out without their spin?
So, the press which lives by words... does not understand the meaning of many of those words.
Heh. And they pretend mental superiority.
Really? How many of the slime has he had executed?
LOL! Oh, you’re welcome. These “journalists” are so easy. Trump takes credit for no plane crash fatalities in 2017 and they jump all over it. Fidiots.
Love your Jefferson quotes.
Folks should these, then read the third grade logic of a typical NYT or WaPo article.
Embrace the modern suck.
And thank the National Eddikashun Asssss-ociation.
Trump: Your fake news.
Jim Acosta: I'M BEING OPRESSED.
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Firing Squad Executioner: Ready, Aim, FIRE!!!
(former) Soviet Journalist:
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Soviet Doctor: He's dead Jim.
I love that expression!
But the tone of voice is very important, and it is very hard to convey in print.
Thanks for “getting” it! LOL! hahahaha
Donald Trump Named Top Global ‘Press Oppressor’ by Committee to Protect Journalists
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What an honor. Trump should make himself a huge trophy commemorating this ward and post it proudly in the Press Room at the White House.
The Fake News Awards
We need categories
- best fake editing of an audio clip
- best fake photograph
- best falling for hoax or prank as news
Holding the fake media accountable is now “oppression”. Wow!
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