Are the press (media) the enemy of the people. Trump Thinks so. What say you?

Fake Russia Collusion.
Attempts to hijack the electoral college results.
Attempts to initiate meaningless recounts in an attempt to delay the electoral college certification

ā€œJournalismā€ is an art. A ā€œpressā€ is a machine.

Freedom of the press isn’t reliant on the quality of the machine’s product.

We could have a whole different conversation about what is or is not ā€œjournalismā€ - but that’s not what freedom of the press is about.

You dont need a press pass to be protected by freedom of the press - all you need is a press.

Obviously we are done. :roll_eyes:

:rofl:

For the third time today, you run away.

I once again accept your concession.

Coup attempts? You think any of that rises to the level of a coup?

I don’t think coup means what you think it does.

Maybe they mean coop?

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Or Koops…as in brown mustard

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Is there a bird brain joke in there somewhere?

I have not conceded that, I said explicitly ā€œfor the sake of argument.ā€ Did you miss that?

Now, to the point at hand: if the press is Trump’s enemy, then Trump can say so with honesty; but Trump isn’t saying that, he’s conflating himself with ā€œthe peopleā€. Is Trump ā€œthe peopleā€? Is Trump the State, i.e., the government? He talks as though he thinks he is, do you agree with him?

Trump is everything.

The really scarey part is that this is what I think he believes.

Trump is every man. Trump is cool?

Cnn, Fox, and msnbc are news entertainment networks that want ratings. Msnbc leans left and doesn’t really pretend otherwise, cnn thinks creating drama and awkward panels of trump supporters saying crazy things while liberals roll their eyes is gold, and Fox went from tan suits and mustard to all hail king trump. They purged a few conservatives who were annoying and some went to the other two networks like a sports trade. Yeah Dwight Howard isn’t working out here, maybe he’ll do better in another environment and boom Ralph Peters is now on CNN. Fox kept Sheppard smith and Chris Wallace pops up from time to time but it’s mostly a ticket to the deep state theater.

So how is any of this the enemy of the American people? A disservice to viewers maybe, depending how biased the punditry gets. But viewers also want the drama like trump voters want the lies. They don’t want ā€œfact checkingā€ and Fox for the most part is totally okay delivering the goods. Most of the breaking news on cnn is just reporters being fed dirt from White House officials anyways.

Buttttttttt so. So…what again is the thread about? Oh right, Trump lies all the time and wants people to not only accept it but praise it, what a good boy, so strong and so good. And if you don’t, you get sent to the corn field. ENEMIES OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE! WISH THEM AWAY DONALD, PLEASE WISH THEM AWAY.

test.

Apparently I"ve offended the powers that be.

You seem to be missing the point at hand. I clearly articulated my argument regarding the MSM being the propaganda arm of the MSM. That one-sided spewing of LW Trump Hating has nothing to do with journalism. It is a concerted effort to undermine and destroy a sitting president.

That is what makes them the enemy of the people. It has nothing to do with Trump conflating himself with anything.

Spoken like a true Trump hater. :+1:

Autocrats like Hitler and Stalin also declared the free press ā€œenemies of the peopleā€ in order to sow mistrust in the reporting, claim victim status, and help prevent information from reaching the citizenry.

Next shut down the press and round up the ā€œintellectualsā€ for this reason.

Including independent parts of government, like circuit court judges.

Sound familiar?

Trump isn’t declaring the free press an enemy of the people. He is declaring the radical LW Trump hating MSM propaganda arm, masquerading as the free press, the enemy of the people.

Trump isn’t saying the things he’s saying.

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Whut?