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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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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

LOL
1 posted on 10/17/2017 7:59:15 AM PDT by kevcol
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To: kevcol

Senile old fart needs to watch today’s Project Veritas video...the NYT is doing exactly what he says.


2 posted on 10/17/2017 8:00:13 AM PDT by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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To: kevcol

Perhaps they should begin by being responsible first.


3 posted on 10/17/2017 8:01:18 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (Ignorance is reparable, stupid is forever)
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To: kevcol

The Ministry of Propaganda is upset that their cover is blown.


4 posted on 10/17/2017 8:01:32 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: kevcol

The man is a ghoul. He is the undead. He died in 1999.


5 posted on 10/17/2017 8:03:23 AM PDT by subterfuge (RIP T.P.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Zip it, Skeletor.


6 posted on 10/17/2017 8:03:30 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The ,Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: kevcol
Independent Press

Wut?

7 posted on 10/17/2017 8:03:59 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: kevcol

LOL exactly! what popped into my head


8 posted on 10/17/2017 8:04:11 AM PDT by faucetman (Ju"st the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: kevcol
when he tries to destroy the credibility of the media

Sorry, the media has been destroying its own credibility for DECADES before Trump came along.
9 posted on 10/17/2017 8:05:00 AM PDT by caligatrux (Rage, rage against the dying of the light.)
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To: kevcol

The other horrible thing Trump does against democracy is to criticize Democrats and to have criticized and even defeated Hillary Clinton, after all the election process is so vital to our democracy and his criticisms were so unfair that he undermined America /s


10 posted on 10/17/2017 8:05:17 AM PDT by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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To: bigbob

ask this old fart how he missed THIS story of corruption:

http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/355749-fbi-uncovered-russian-bribery-plot-before-obama-administration


11 posted on 10/17/2017 8:05:30 AM PDT by bitt (The press takes him literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literal)
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To: kevcol

CBS and Schieffer were propagandists for the Clinton campaign and did all they could to disparage Trump. They were fake journalists and definitely not “independent”. Only a fool would take them seriously.


12 posted on 10/17/2017 8:06:23 AM PDT by allendale (.)
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To: kevcol

It seems to me that somewhere during his love affair with freedom of the left-wing press, he took a wrong turn and forgot all about freedom of speech. And of course he has no awareness that and uncriticized press like Pravda is the worst insult to democracy.


13 posted on 10/17/2017 8:07:01 AM PDT by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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To: kevcol

For eight years they refused to hold a president accountable, abetted incompetence and overt corruption, and have the nerve to complain about well earned criticism.


14 posted on 10/17/2017 8:07:04 AM PDT by Spok
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To: kevcol

First of all, the networks are not the press. They do not buy their press, paper, ink etc. They use the public airwaves.

I still believe they should have freedom but not the monolithic propaganda machines which describes the current mass media.


15 posted on 10/17/2017 8:07:37 AM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: kevcol

A corporate/globalist press is not an independent press.


16 posted on 10/17/2017 8:08:12 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (You can't have totalitarian globalist government if the peasants are armed.)
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To: kevcol

Schieffer, you prick traitor. Your newspeak for sedition is “independent press” now?? You’re a whorespondent for globalists. You wouldn’t know “independent” if it bit you on your ass. FU and your CNN and See-BS traitors.


17 posted on 10/17/2017 8:13:20 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (WKU 2016 Boca Raton Bowl Champions)
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To: kevcol

Criticizing the media is undemocratic. Got it.


18 posted on 10/17/2017 8:13:55 AM PDT by Interesting Times (WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
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To: kevcol

Sorta like asking the fox to guard the hen house.


19 posted on 10/17/2017 8:14:20 AM PDT by econjack
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To: kevcol

I could just as easily, and more accurately, say: “Critics of a Right to Bear Arms, Are ‘Undermining Foundations of Democracy


20 posted on 10/17/2017 8:15:56 AM PDT by circlecity
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