Nosmo King
Gold Member
Reporting facts that harm the image of the president is not propaganda. It's reporting It's journalism.So an adversarial relationship between the White House and the press is something to celebrate? Something to champion? Something healthy for our democracy?Trump lies! Get some new materialWhy does Trump hate the press? because the press is calling him on his outrageous lies! Trump says something that is demonstrably untrue. Then, when this is pointed out, he cries "fake news" "alternative facts"!NEVER question the Press' lies! You un-American Rube!Controlling and demonizing the free press is the kind of democracy you applaud? Think about it. If you love America, why? Our freedoms? Doesn't sound like it.
Meanwhile, the dedicated partisans who fail to see that the emperor is, indeed, without clothes, rallies to his indefensible side and chimes along with the idiot that the press is lying.
All the while, our basic freedom of a free press is being eroded by an amateur, a petulant game show host with no statesmanlike qualities. And we're all supposed to skip along merrily with this subversion of America.
Everyoen knows this. Everyone also knows those people kicked out have been gargling bullshit for months.
Trump has been steadily undermining our democracy. He probably, if not absolutely colluded with the Russians to hack our democratic process. When Nixon did it in 1972 it was seen as a constitutional crisis. When Trump did it in 2016, his partisan supporters cheered!
Trump called the press 'the enemy of the American people'. Is this the attitude of a responsible democratic leader, or something more akin to an authoritarian strongman?
It may be that Trump has absolutely no experience in government. It may be that a minority of the electorate wanted an amateur, an outsider to 'shake things up'. It may be that Trump has utterly failed to surround himself with 'the best and brightest'. And it may be that Trump's vision of how the American people should be regarded is by purely amateurish means laced with petulance and division and fear mongering. And, unfortunately, some of that minority of the electorate is just as amateurish, crass, boorish and undemocratic as the huckster buffoon they voted for.
The press created the adversarial relationship, not the President. They pulled their biased reporting tricks and are now paying the price.
It's over for you socialists. Lie, bitch and moan all you wish. America will not listen to your propaganda any longer.
As for bias, I guess bias is just fine so long as it confirms your beliefs rather than challenges them. Re enforces your ideology rather than question it.
Bias in the irresponsible wild west 'media' of the internet where fact checking is a pain in the rear and the priority is on spreading the ideological word, not the truth is just fine with the simple minded partisan. Anything more challenging is just too hard to accept. So it gets demonized and our freedoms suffer.
Journalism is the one and only occupation mentioned in the constitution. Because it is vital to our democracy.