Posted on 03/23/2025 7:48:15 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
NEW YORK (AP) — During the first Trump administration, the biggest concern for many journalists was labels. Would they, or their news outlet, be called “fake news” or an “enemy of the people” by a president and his supporters?
They now face a more assertive President Donald Trump. In two months, a blitz of action by the nation’s new administration — Trump, chapter two — has journalists on their heels.
Lawsuits. A newly aggressive Federal Communications Commission. An effort to control the press corps that covers the president, prompting legal action by The Associated Press. A gutted Voice of America. Public data stripped from websites. And attacks, amplified anew.
“It’s very clear what’s happening. The Trump administration is on a campaign to do everything it can to diminish and obstruct journalism in the United States,” said Bill Grueskin, a journalism professor at Columbia University.
“It’s really nothing like we saw in 2017,” he said. “Not that there weren’t efforts to discredit the press, and not that there weren’t things that the press did to discredit themselves.”
Supporters of the president suggest that an overdue correction is in order to reflect new ways that Americans get information and to counter overreach by reporters. Polls have revealed continued public dissatisfaction with journalists — something that has been bedeviling the industry for years.
Press advocates worry about the intimidation factor of lawsuits and investigations, particularly on smaller newsrooms. What stories will go unreported simply because it’s not worth the potential hassle? “It has a very corrosive effect over time,” Grueskin said.
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Paging boo hoo hoo girl
“Would they, or their news outlet, be called “fake news” or an “enemy of the people” by a president and his supporters?”
No worries this time, everyone on both sides knows they are fake news and an enemy of the people.
“Obstruct Journalism”
The MSM hasn’t practiced journalism in years.
"Journalism" has always been a tool of those with the cash to buy the means. It used to be easier to get away with it until Musk had the cash to buy Twitter.
There was remarkably little concern from the AP and other legacy media outlets when conservative voices and dissent were suppressed during Covid.
And with the Hunter Biden laptop.
Where were complaints when the AP and other ‘news’ organizations functioned as the propaganda arm of the democrat party?
It’s not the “news industry”; it’s the traitorous Enemedia propaganda and gaslighting industry.
AP does not have to worry about it because they are not a news organization.
Recall that the AA was the first news organization to report that there was no evidence of fraud a few days after the 2020 election. From that time any election fraud allegation made by Trump was deemed “debunked” by AA. AA could redeem themselves if they could tell us where Biden’s 81 million voters went in 2024.
Let me know when they start capitalizing “White” again.
The “news industry’s” biggest challenge, is the terminal weight of its ego —> PRIDE, the glue that keeps sin stuck to you.
Who’s the AA?
It wasn't just Orwell teaching us this principle, either. Others have raised the same alarm, with the same response of apathy.
That's why I call them the HBM (Has Been Media). Pass it on.
Hahahaha. It is the fake news industry. They are propagandists.
We are traitors and President Trump won’t let us into a room at the White House to play!
F ‘em.
Mockingbirds getting weary and behind in their control of public information.
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