This has been the case from the beginning of the Republic. Learn history people...
That’s perfectly true. They’re free to opine as the wish. But they are refusing to even acknowledge the facts that are supposedly the basis for their opinions and are making statements, believed by their readers, that are directly contradicted by the facts.
So they can say and think what they want, but they should present it as opinion and not delude their followers by blithely ignoring the facts.
“It looks to me that many people on FR do not understand that the press, being free, is free to take sides as it wishes.“
Oh, we understand the press alright. The press hates America and Hates We the People.
It looks to me that many people on FR do not understand that the press, being free, is free to take sides as it wishes.
Reality-wise, there should be consequences to their reputation from readers/viewers, and their employment from their bosses.
Many of the things that were being reported on this had clear contradictions, and instead of adjusting their arguments, they disappeared them. Look at the liberals who were uninvited for CNN as an example.
Why don’t YOU learn some manners.
We know history. And we also know that a Mega-Corporate-owned “Press” that chooses to lie, cheat, and obfuscate in service to a government and/or totalitarian ideology is no longer a “Free Press” but simply a paid propaganda organ for the State.
The so-called “Free Press” as it is constituted in current-year America is an Enemy of The People and should be treated as such.
Take sides!!!?
"The media" means...."in the middle"
The RATagandists have engaged in total anti-American libel and slander for years if not decades. They've been the broadcast arm of the subversive democRATs/communists in trying to oppose and suppress the will of the American people.
They are the "enemies both foreign and domestic".
If they can't be prosecuted for their blatant and aggressive disinformation campaign, then they need to be individually sued into homelessness, and vociferously disrupted and harassed by the public every time they show their lying faces, or attempt to "cover a story".
"the press, being free, is free to take sides as it wishes"
And if they are...then so are we.
"The press" literally refers to the print media...the case needs to be made that those operating under license of the FCC have an obligation to honestly serve the public.
The newspapers can print whatever they damn well want...as they continue to lose readership and slowly circle the bowl.
Agree about being free to take sides.
However, in the beginning of the Republic, "the press" meant the printing press, and "freedom of the press" meant the People's right to publish.
The phrase "the press" to refer to newspapers and magazines didn't begin until the 1820s, and to refer to reporters and journalists until the early 1900s.
-PJ
Yeah, and we once had many things.....perhaps you need to live in the reality of today rather than the warm glow of history.