FUNYT !
Posted on 07/29/2018 5:24:16 PM PDT by Ennis85
The publisher of the New York Times has urged President Donald Trump not to continue labelling reporters "enemies of the people", saying it could "lead to violence" against the media.
AG Sulzberger made the details of their off-the-record meeting public after Mr Trump tweeted about it.
In his initial tweet, the president said it had been a "very good" meeting.
But he later accused media of putting people's lives at risk through their reporting.
His first tweet read: "Spent much time talking about the vast amounts of Fake News being put out by the media & how that Fake News has morphed into phrase, 'Enemy of the People.' Sad!"
He did not refer to his own repeated use of the phrase.
The New York Times then released its statement, saying it had decided to "respond to the president's characterisation of their conversation".
Mr Sulzberger said he had accepted the meeting with Mr Trump to raise concerns about the president's "deeply troubling anti-press rhetoric".
He said he told Mr Trump that the phrase "fake news" was "untrue and harmful" but said he was "far more concerned about his labelling journalists 'the enemy of the people'".
"I warned that this inflammatory language is contributing to a rise in threats against journalists and will lead to violence," he said.
Mr Sulzberger said he had told the president that this was particularly true in other countries, where he said Mr Trump's rhetoric was being used by some regimes to crack down on journalists.
"I warned that it was putting lives at risk, that it was undermining the democratic ideals of our nation, and that it was eroding one of our country's greatest exports: a commitment to free speech and a free press," he said.
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Domestic Enemies.
The End.
I hope The Donald told Sulzberger to his face to f*** off, I call ‘em as I see ‘em.
The publisher of the New York Times has urged President Donald Trump not to continue labelling reporters “enemies of the people”, saying it could “lead to violence” against the media.
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Cry me a river.
Mueller should change his investigation. Meeting with the NYT is worse than meeting with the Russians.
The media propagandists don’t just view “Trumpeteers” as the enemy; they’ve done nothing but bring low-IQ Democrats down as well. They despise all citizens of the US, just demonstrate it in different ways. For example, while they vilify Trump supporters as “deplorables”, they view our urban minorities as nothing more than cattle that vote.
I am almost 80 years old. The media today IS the ENEMY of the Country at large.
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. - Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations (1776)People of the trade of journalism “meet together” - virtually, via the Associated Press “wire” - continually. Not about “merriment and diversion,” but precisely about business. This “meeting” among all major US newspapers has been ongoing since before the Civil War. It is naive in the extreme to take for granted that “a conspiracy against the public” by journalists is not - has not long been - in effect.I charge that that conspiracy promotes the conceit, contrary to all logic and experience, that journalists are objective. Journalism promotes itself - and promotes big government - by speaking ill of society. IOW, that conspiracy against the public is why the MSM has promoted socialism for the entirety of my adult life - and before that.
Get to where more than 11% of the population trust and believe what you publish and maybe you won’t have to worry about it.
The media is responsible for the violence period.
Turd should get out of his office more often and meet the general public .... he would learn that the public thinks the Marxist State Media is managed by traitors and operated by overpaid ignorant pimps and whores.
Ok let me call them our enemies
How about termites in the floorboards of the Republic?
Majority of Americans already know this. The President is just stating the obvious.
Ever since they started distorting the truth, reporters have been the enemy of the people. It’s just that we have a leader now that’s willing to actually push back for once, and it feels sooooooooo goooooooood! The libs cannot handle it. Many conservatives can’t handle push-back either because they think it is more polite to just keep looking the other way.
He should be struck down by a lightning bolt. What the media has lied about and what they have omitted has already lead to violence, and lots of it.
Nit picking rabble rousers is the very kindest thing I can call Donald’s media foes. It makes me sick to my stomach to contemplate it for very long. I don’t usually watch the media, but due to a situation I was in, I got to see long stretches of CNN. Urgh bargh. Pick pick pick pick pickalittle pickalot!
Now Donald sometimes isn’t very precise and that feeds the nit pickers. It isn’t literally true, for instance, that the USPS “loses money” on Amazon — but it does fail to gain what it could be gaining from Amazon, and that’s how a business maven might speak. But oh. Nobody wants to be reasonable. Pick pick pick pick PICK.
One could take this as a back handed compliment to Donald, however. When one is taking the most flak, one is flying right over the target.
That's good, too ... but I'll use the terms they explicitly hate. "F" them and the horse they rode in on.
Bingo
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