08-02-2018, 04:09 PM
(08-02-2018, 02:01 PM)aussiefriend Wrote: HoTD, At the end Sarah Sanders went off on CNN chief correspondent, but you get what they are doing, when they lose in November. Mind you, I thought they were going to lose in 2016, but it was rigged.
I just read about it aussie.
Same old shit. I don't think it has much to do with the November midterms though. Trump characterized the free press as "very unfair" to him and has positioned reporters who report negative news about him as "enemies of the people" since the start of his campaign and he hasn't stopped. Sanders does the same as his press secretary.
I think it's whiny and dangerous. The free press -- like the independent judiciary -- is essential to democracies. The press is certainly not the enemy of the people just because they're not always favorable to Trump.
Trump wants to control the narrative at all times. He's got Twitter, several programs on FOX News, a number of conservative AM radio personalities, and a few print outlets that cater to his narrative -- primarily the same sources that made questioning Obama's birth and the tragedy in Benghazi under Hillary Clinton's SoS tenure the crux of their focus for years on end. If they honestly cite the facts and then clearly state their opinions about them, it's one thing. But, too many of them present falsehoods and biased opinions as facts.
CNN reports the facts and labels opinion as such, from what I've watched. And, they have a lot of Trump supporters on panels when they assess and comment on the factual news. But, I got tired of listening to them going on for days about stupid shit that Trump has said when it really had no consequence as to policy or any potential negative impact on the public.
Anyway, Jim Acosta is just a standard reporter. But, he's become the target of Trump and company. I haven't heard him whine about it though. He just keeps doing his job, from what I've seen. Good for him.