Does the press have the “right” to try to pay soldiers to count airplanes leaving an airfield in the middle of the night and call them with the number?
Does the press have the “right” to climb over a fence to get in a classified airfield in a forward deployed airfield during combat operations?
Does the press have the “right” to “get (make up) the story” no matter the cost?
The “press” is as dirty as any other corporation and dirtier than most.
You don’t think some right wing nut job will be emboldened and do something horrible to the press after president of the most powerful country on eart calling the press “the enemy of the people”?
It’s not a lie. That’s the way it was for centuries until, oh, somewhere around the Great Depression to the immediate postwar era. Seriously.
I’m just saying, even Our Esteemed Host is a close adviser of the current president, a fact he doesn’t disclose to his audience and he does call himself I believe an “advocacy journalist” or some such.
It’s always struck me that conservatives want to have their cake and eat it too on this one, taking the mainstream media to task for not being objective while strongly supporting a conservative media that outright shills for their political interests.