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Schieffer: Critics of an 'Independent Press' Are 'Undermining Foundations of Democracy'
Newsbusters ^ | October 16, 2017 | Tim Graham

Posted on 10/17/2017 7:59:15 AM PDT by kevcol

"What I do take seriously is when he tries to destroy the credibility of the media, an independent press that can gather information that people can compare to the government's version of events and that is what we do. It's as crucial to our democracy as the right to vote, and when people try to undermine that, I think they're undermining the foundations of our democracy."

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous; Politics
KEYWORDS: bobschieffer; cnn; mediabias; msm
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To: kevcol
Schieffer: Critics of an 'Independent Press' Are 'Undermining Foundations of Democracy'

Critics of critics of an 'Independent Press' don't understand the foundations of our country.

That would be you, Bob Sheather.

41 posted on 10/17/2017 9:28:36 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: JayAr36
Independent Press? Is that a joke. I missed it.

Bob is a dunce. A non independent press is what you get when you don't have critics of the press.

42 posted on 10/17/2017 9:30:11 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: kevcol

So...we can’t criticize the press now? Sounds a bit Orwellian. The Constitution is built to check abuses of power because we know man is flawed. So are they saying the people who run the press are Gods, who never error?


43 posted on 10/17/2017 9:34:23 AM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: kevcol

So you think having a biased press is OK, Bob?

Got it.


44 posted on 10/17/2017 9:35:49 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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To: yarddog

And the First Amendment is not exclusive to the official press. But they seem to think it elevates their rights of free speech above us proletariat.


45 posted on 10/17/2017 9:39:34 AM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: kevcol

I would not call a press that colludes with the dimoKKKRAT party independent.


46 posted on 10/17/2017 9:40:44 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: kevcol
"...an independent press that can gather information that people can compare to the government's version of events and that is what we do."

Except for the 9.5 years we were subjected to the great deceiver - the B.O. Kenyan - during the first 1.5 years while running for, followed by the 8 of his presidency.

47 posted on 10/17/2017 9:53:06 AM PDT by nfldgirl
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To: kevcol

Let’s get an independent press, first, and I’ll let you know how it goes...


48 posted on 10/17/2017 10:00:23 AM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: kevcol
What I do take seriously is when he tries to destroy the credibility of the media...

The what? Seen any polls lately regarding public confidence in the media? Used car salesmen look like Mother Teresa by comparison.

No, the media have done a very nice hatchet job on their own credibility without Trump's help. They bit a poison apple in 1972 and have been preening in celebrity and a very mistaken sense of probity ever since. Guardians of democracy? They're guardians of their own bank accounts and over-inflated sense of self-importance, that's all.

49 posted on 10/17/2017 10:03:20 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: kevcol

What independent press?

The ones owned and controlled by the giant multinational cartels are less than groveling slaves.


50 posted on 10/17/2017 10:45:08 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: bigbob

That Alzheimer’s pharmacist needs to help out some of these network announcers—and their audiences!


51 posted on 10/17/2017 10:46:06 AM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: kevcol

Does a Press that blatantly LIEs and calls the President Insane have free speech rights? Politicians are allowed to lie because the judiciary knows they can’t execute all the promises they make. What allow the press to outright lie and call the POTUS insane or worse?


52 posted on 10/17/2017 11:27:39 AM PDT by Harpotoo
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