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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Critics of critics of an 'Independent Press' don't understand the foundations of our country.
That would be you, Bob Sheather.
Bob is a dunce. A non independent press is what you get when you don't have critics of the press.
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?
So you think having a biased press is OK, Bob?
Got it.
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.
I would not call a press that colludes with the dimoKKKRAT party independent.
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.
Let’s get an independent press, first, and I’ll let you know how it goes...
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.
What independent press?
The ones owned and controlled by the giant multinational cartels are less than groveling slaves.
That Alzheimer’s pharmacist needs to help out some of these network announcers—and their audiences!
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?
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