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We all know why Trump attacks the press as he does. He wants its credibility to be so broken that whenever it reports negative stories about him it will not be believed. That has ominous implications. If the President succeeds in his effort to discredit the press, then from whom will the people get the truth? The government? History is filled with examples of how disastrous that has been. Ask the people in Pyongyang, Moscow, Beijing, Damascus or Tehran how that is working out for them.
It may be fun, good theater and base-pleasing politics for Trump to whip up attendees at his rallies by calling the press corps "the enemy of the people," but it is wrong. Simply put, such rhetoric is beneath the dignity of the office he holds.
And it is wrong, dangerous and un-American for the President not only to undermine public confidence in the press but also to tell his supporters that reporters are enemies of our country. They are not. Clearly many in the Washington press corps are not Trump fans, but that does not mean they are acting against the American people. Reporters may not always get things right (and goodness knows the Trump administration does little to help them do so), but they are not our opposition, nor are they seeking to defeat us.
The President of the United States should be a champion for our democracy and the cherished institutions that keep us free. As chilling as it is to contemplate a foreign power seeking to undermine the sanctity of our electoral process, it is even more chilling to contemplate our own leader seeking to turn the people against our free press. In doing so, Trump poses as great a threat to our democracy as does Putin. It's time for more Republican and Democratic senators and representatives to say so, and they can start by passing resolutions in both the Senate and House condemning efforts to vilify and delegitimize the press and expressing support for reporters' First Amendment rights.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/21/opinions/both-parties-should-unite-around-freedom-press-weinberg/index.html
It may be fun, good theater and base-pleasing politics for Trump to whip up attendees at his rallies by calling the press corps "the enemy of the people," but it is wrong. Simply put, such rhetoric is beneath the dignity of the office he holds.
And it is wrong, dangerous and un-American for the President not only to undermine public confidence in the press but also to tell his supporters that reporters are enemies of our country. They are not. Clearly many in the Washington press corps are not Trump fans, but that does not mean they are acting against the American people. Reporters may not always get things right (and goodness knows the Trump administration does little to help them do so), but they are not our opposition, nor are they seeking to defeat us.
The President of the United States should be a champion for our democracy and the cherished institutions that keep us free. As chilling as it is to contemplate a foreign power seeking to undermine the sanctity of our electoral process, it is even more chilling to contemplate our own leader seeking to turn the people against our free press. In doing so, Trump poses as great a threat to our democracy as does Putin. It's time for more Republican and Democratic senators and representatives to say so, and they can start by passing resolutions in both the Senate and House condemning efforts to vilify and delegitimize the press and expressing support for reporters' First Amendment rights.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/21/opinions/both-parties-should-unite-around-freedom-press-weinberg/index.html
