The First Amendment prohibits the free exercise of, or abridging of the press. The New York Times editor thinks Trump is threatening the press. He's wrong, and knows his posturing is just more of the same effort to remove Trump from office.
Freedom of the press is like the freedom of speech. There are limits; especially when false information is used to cause intentional harm; such as hollering "fire" in a crowded theater. Using the supposed impartiality of the press to knowingly print falsehoods, or avoid the requirement of insuring a source is accurate, is an intentional abuse of the right guaranteed by the Constitution.
Many in the news media are in outright war against the President. They're using the First Amendment as a shield, while completely ignoring all other rights guaranteed by the Constitution. It's a seditionist method of undermining the government, and an effort to drastically change the United States without following the methods outlined in the Constitution.
Unfortunately, all in the news media are now suspected of having ulterior motives, which harms the institution. If the media wants change this perspective, it needs to start by censoring those so willing to misuse their position, and keeping all opinions strictly in an editorial section. Until that happens, the media will find less people willing to subscribe to their outlet, diminished revenue, and more suspicion of improper behavior.
Amen, but fat chance. :(
ReplyDeleteMany outlets are scrambling to keep the doors open. If they don't change their ways, either the bottom dollar will dictate policy, or the doors will close. Either is a good option.
DeleteTo them Freedom of the press means freedom to lie, and give out false statements
ReplyDeleteThere's the chance enough journalists will realize if they don't change, they'll fall below the credibility of a used car salesman.
DeleteThe beauty, unappreciated by almost no one - is this: even the most pozzed yellow journals like the New York Times or the Huffington Post - can only tell the raw, unvarnished truth!
ReplyDeleteOnce you know how to read them.
When the rag sheets accused Trump of colluding with the Russians, welp, guess which Democrat dingbat comes up front and centre in the Uranium One debacle? Trump is meddling in the election process? Well guess what the Deep State has been up to... and who they've been working for? Trump is grabbing women by the pussy? Look at which prominent feminists, socialists, and homosexuals are getting dragged off to Pervert Island by the harridans of #MeToo?
I for one am enjoying the death of the mass media and I sincerely hope it hurts.
I long for the day when CNN is not shown at any airport, or hospital. That would end the run of the what was supposedly an honorable news network.
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