And too think Ms Powers is a Liberal voice or was it that she was contractual employee by FOX News to be the token female liberal or is she just actually making sense that POTUS Donnie’s attacks on the press is just “one upmanship” to that of POTUS Barry and POTUS Dick Nixon? – PB/TK
Trumping Obama’s war with Fox: Kirsten Powers
Kirsten Powers Published 11:32 a.m. ET Feb. 20, 2017
Friday we learned that the real foe of the American people is not Russia, which last week had a spy ship lurking off the Connecticut coast, but is in fact the people who bring you the daily news.
Presumably in reaction to Thursday’s adversarial news conference, the president of the United States took to his Twitter feed to accuse the (“failing”) New York Times, NBC News, ABC News, CBS News and CNN of being “the enemy of the American people!”
Presumably in reaction to Thursday’s adversarial news conference, the president of the United States took to his Twitter feed to accuse the (“failing”) New York Times, NBC News, ABC News, CBS News and CNN of being “the enemy of the American people!”
We know that the president hates the mainstream media. This is not news. Since taking office, he has been single-minded in his attempt to undermine news outlets he doesn’t have under his thumb. He relentlessly accuses non-conservative media outlets of being “fake news” and “the opposition party” to undermine trust in one of the two institutions in our society that will hold him accountable. The other is the judiciary, upon which he has launched similar attacks. (The GOP-controlled Congress shouldn’t be counted on to provide accountability, at least in the near term.)
The press is often referred to as the fourth estate — capturing its role as an unofficial fourth branch of government — and provided with special constitutional protections precisely because a free press is so fundamental to a functioning democracy. While President Trump is not engaging in any First Amendment violations as a matter of law, his behavior goes against the spirit of the Constitution by using his influence to try to silence and delegitimize dissenting speech.
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