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The Trump Administration is making a mockery of presidential accountability. I am glad to see that even
conservative media is having enough and pushing back.
The press needs to continue to be aggressive in investigating the Trump Administration. Their lies and deceit cannot go unreported.
He can't lose Fox as that is the only one that he likes. He will always have Hannity tho.
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I find it so odd that these people who claim to love America so much, the 'Murica crowd Aka the Stars and Stripes pants crowd, cheer aloud as we move farther and farther away from the republic the founding fathers envisioned and more towards a banana republic totalitarian regime (hyperbole noted). Somehow the bill of rights means nothing unless it's taking about guns. Marginalizing and obstructing the free press puts us more inline with Russia and China than then a city upon a hill ever should be.
Having listened to the recordings of the W.H. press briefings I'm convinced they shouldn't be on camera briefings.
The press is given 1st amend. freedom for a reason and they have a responsibility which they are ignoring. They are not asking questions to get answers or inform the public. They are grandstanding, giving opinions with a question at the end rigged to get confirmation of their dishonest bazar opinions. The W.H. briefings press core, so called reporters, use the camera to be the news and try to make a name for themselves , not report or inform the public. A perfect example is the bobble headed clown April who became famous and was added as a contributor to CNN. ( who everyone knows is fake news and hostile, by choice, propaganda media colluding with the DNC and the destroy Trump media with 92 % negative stories and they are stories, not reporting ) A boost in pay and up a rung on her career ladder for a display of disrespect to the process. Its press malpractice and the public isn't better served by having the briefings become a soap opera of gotcha drama. The W.H. press isn't interested in doing its job but wants to do a hit job on the office of the president because the have admittedly become activist, non objective, journalist who have abandoned ethics and taken up the pitchfork and torch promoting anarchy. Its not totalitarianism to put them in check. Its commonsense, to stop fake news and the spread of propaganda which isn't in the public interest.
The President and his press office has every right and reason to B-slap the press until they wake up and do the job that serves the public, as the forth estate, as designed.
The Free Press Industrial Complex is as harmful to the nation as the other Industrial Complexes in the swamp.
Please use the enter key in the future.
The free press exists for many reasons, none of which are explicitly state in the constitution. The same first amendment that allows reputable newspapers like the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and various smaller newspapers throughout the country also allows Alex Jones, Breitbart, and the Daily Kos the right to do their thing.
And stories, by the way, are reporting. The news doesn't need to be just a list of facts. Context for what's happening is necessary and this usually requires a story.
As for the rest of your conspiratorial nonsense... well, it's just that. Conspiratorial nonsense.
Sorry, but the president reports to us. So we need reporters to be the whole country's eyes and ears because they represent us.
They can write can't they? Besides, most of these reporters aren't even after anything important. They are only after gaffs that will make him look bad. You don't learn anything from their press release coverage.
The free press exists for many reasons, none of which are explicitly state in the constitution. The same first amendment that allows reputable newspapers like the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and various smaller newspapers throughout the country also allows Alex Jones, Breitbart, and the Daily Kos the right to do their thing.
And stories, by the way, are reporting. The news doesn't need to be just a list of facts. Context for what's happening is necessary and this usually requires a story.
As for the rest of your conspiratorial nonsense... well, it's just that. Conspiratorial nonsense.
The president's job is not to regulate the media.
The media just doesn't get to do whatever they want. Regulating them is necessary.
The media just doesn't get to do whatever they want. Regulating them is necessary.
so there we go, we FINALLY found a regulation the Trump crew likes/wants.....remember this day!!! regulate clean drinking water or make sure your bank isn't leveraged 75 to 1, no dice. Take away what the press can say, yes!!
That would be the democratic thing to do. March lockstep and be a critic of those who don't.
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The free press exists for many reasons, none of which are explicitly state in the constitution. The same first amendment that allows reputable newspapers like the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and various smaller newspapers throughout the country also allows Alex Jones, Breitbart, and the Daily Kos the right to do their thing.
That's true.
I see no reason for it to be treated different than other amendments including the 2nd amend.
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And stories, by the way, are reporting. The news doesn't need to be just a list of facts. Context for what's happening is necessary and this usually requires a story.
The story of a five year old shouldn't be promoted in the reporting. Unless it a is a story on five year olds.
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As for the rest of your conspiratorial nonsense... well, it's just that. Conspiratorial nonsense.
Conspiracy's starts when opinion is introduced denying the facts. We see that in the opinion of reporters framing their conspiratorial ideas then asking a question at the end. Being intelligent enough to recognize it most people can see what is happing in the W.H. press briefing.
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The president's job is not to regulate the media.
The president has many jobs. One of which it to get his message out unfiltered by a dishonest press and to B-slap them when they try to regulate his actions. Tweet Tweet.....now sit down a shut up fake news press. Tweet tweet.
The media just doesn't get to do whatever they want. Regulating them is necessary.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
That would be the democratic thing to do. March lockstep and be a critic of those who don't.
Are you telling me that the concept of conventional language rules is new to you?
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That's true.
I see no reason for it to be treated different than other amendments including the 2nd amend.
Neither do I. Not sure how this passes as your argument...
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The story of a five year old shouldn't be promoted in the reporting. Unless it a is a story on five year olds.
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Conspiracy's starts when opinion is introduced denying the facts. We see that in the opinion of reporters framing their conspiratorial ideas then asking a question at the end. Being intelligent enough to recognize it most people can see what is happing in the W.H. press briefing.
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The president has many jobs. One of which it to get his message out unfiltered by a dishonest press and to B-slap them when they try to regulate his actions. Tweet Tweet.....now sit down a shut up fake news press. Tweet tweet.
I would never just take a presidents word for it. Ever. That's one of many reasons we should have a free press. The idea that him tweeting his message is more transparent than having third parties with no affiliation to the federal government question, investigate, and double check on the presidents doings is laughable, at best.
And no, that is not one of the president's jobs.
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