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originally posted by: intrepid
originally posted by: face23785
originally posted by: Puppylove
a reply to: intrepid
The purpose of the news and press is to keep politicians honest, keep the people informed and be champions of the truth. Unfortunately it has become just as corrupt as the crooked politicians it was partially meant to police.
You want to quote the 1st amendment to protect them doing whatever they wish regardless of the outcome and whether it even vaguely represents or comes close to the medias original purpose.
So what are we left with as options? The corrupt government officials control and are protected by the law, the corrupt media are likewise protected by the law.
Are we supposed to just sit here and accept all the lying, meddling and bull# these people do to # up our lives and destroy our way of life for their personal benefit?
Truth. I wrote about this in this thread. Right now, the media themselves are the biggest danger to freedom of the press, by repeatedly destroying their own credibility.
If that's the case too bad it's not covered by the Constitution.
originally posted by: intrepid
I can't believe some of what I'm reading here. Folks that are vocal 2nd Amendment supporters, as it protects all other Amendments, are OK with attacking the 1st. Makes no sense at all. If Obama had gone after Fox it would have been...
If ya'll are saying that this is "all part of Trump's plan", that plan is selling out the Constitution. Why aren't you guys seeing this?
originally posted by: JAY1980
originally posted by: intrepid
I can't believe some of what I'm reading here. Folks that are vocal 2nd Amendment supporters, as it protects all other Amendments, are OK with attacking the 1st. Makes no sense at all. If Obama had gone after Fox it would have been...
If ya'll are saying that this is "all part of Trump's plan", that plan is selling out the Constitution. Why aren't you guys seeing this?
As someone from Canada I don't expect you to understand this.
This isn't an attack on free speech it's an attack on deep state propaganda.
I get it you believe everything you see on TV...
But we don't and when your free speech is akin to yelling fire in a crowded theater then you probably shouldn't have that right.
Get it?
Probably not...
originally posted by: Rezlooper
a reply to: face23785
Trump shouldn't do anything to restrict the freedom of the press, and he should leave them be, but he sure as hell should remove them from the White House press corp. Give their seats to lesser-known, but more truthful news agencies. Why should he continue to allow them in when they don't report any truth that comes out of the briefings. They twist and spin everything and they are nothing more than National Enquirers of broadcast news.
originally posted by: face23785
originally posted by: Rezlooper
a reply to: face23785
Trump shouldn't do anything to restrict the freedom of the press, and he should leave them be, but he sure as hell should remove them from the White House press corp. Give their seats to lesser-known, but more truthful news agencies. Why should he continue to allow them in when they don't report any truth that comes out of the briefings. They twist and spin everything and they are nothing more than National Enquirers of broadcast news.
He hasn't done anything to restrict freedom of the press, so I'm fine with the rest of this.
originally posted by: blueman12
You guys are being totally naive. Trump only calls the leftist mainstream "fake news". He never calls out FOX news. Trump clearly thinks FAKE news is anything that is against his administration.
If you think fake news is just the mainstream left then YOU are being played.
originally posted by: face23785
originally posted by: blueman12
You guys are being totally naive. Trump only calls the leftist mainstream "fake news". He never calls out FOX news. Trump clearly thinks FAKE news is anything that is against his administration.
If you think fake news is just the mainstream left then YOU are being played.
Except half of Fox's coverage of Trump is negative, according to Harvard. Maybe he doesn't call it fake news because it's balanced.
originally posted by: blueman12
originally posted by: face23785
originally posted by: blueman12
You guys are being totally naive. Trump only calls the leftist mainstream "fake news". He never calls out FOX news. Trump clearly thinks FAKE news is anything that is against his administration.
If you think fake news is just the mainstream left then YOU are being played.
Except half of Fox's coverage of Trump is negative, according to Harvard. Maybe he doesn't call it fake news because it's balanced.
Nonsense. Fox News is purely pro republican. Anything but balanced. I'm sorry you need to make things up to defend trump but trump clearly has an extreme bias when it comes to fake news.
If CNN is fake news, then so is FOX. Unless you've drank so much republican kook aid that you can't tell left from right anymore.
And the pro-Trump Fox News? That network was 52 percent negative to 48 percent positive.
originally posted by: blueman12
a reply to: face23785
They are pro republican. Pro-right. They have a narrative and lied, misled, and minipulated many times. Your one statistic showing 48% negative is the first 100 days of trump. Not the the last 10 years of republican coverage.
Only a fool watches FOX and believes it doesn't have an agenda. It just blows my mind that so many on ATS think FOX isn't a bias mainstream network like MSNBC.. The level of blindness here...
Come on, let's see the "balanced" clips of FOX news criticizing the Republican Party and going against the grain..I can show tons of clips of Fox outright lying and distorting stories in favor of a right-wing view.
originally posted by: AScrubWhoDied
originally posted by: carewemust
I have been saying for over a year that the liberal fake news media is a danger to America. They are domestic terrorists masquerading as media people.
When are you going to do something to stop or punish them president Trump? You have the entire power of the government available to put the screws to them in ways they cannot even imagine.
This sounds awfully authoritarian.
originally posted by: TritonTaranis
originally posted by: AScrubWhoDied
originally posted by: carewemust
I have been saying for over a year that the liberal fake news media is a danger to America. They are domestic terrorists masquerading as media people.
When are you going to do something to stop or punish them president Trump? You have the entire power of the government available to put the screws to them in ways they cannot even imagine.
This sounds awfully authoritarian.
Nope it sounds like a deceleration of war for which there is a mountain of evidence to justify
Dont worry we will be kind to you in the history books and say you put up a decent fight
Moving on...
No quarters for traitors and treason