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A REAL scandal is the one sided coverage, hour by hour, of networks like NBC & Democrat spin machines like Saturday Night Live. It is all nothing less than unfair news coverage and Democrat commercials. Should be tested in courts, can’t be legal? Only defame & belittle! Collusion?

Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.” ― Theodore Roosevelt

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A REAL scandal is the one sided coverage, hour by hour, of networks like NBC & Democrat spin machines like Saturday Night Live. It is all nothing less than unfair news coverage and Democrat commercials. Should be tested in courts, can’t be legal? Only defame & belittle! Collusion?

Any Conservatives want to explain why this is un-American and the President shouldn't be removed from office immediately?

- Doc

Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:Any Conservatives want to explain why this is un-American. . .

. . . and the President shouldn't be removed from office immediately?

Jersey Girl wrote:There's a problem with the media and it's reporting.

MeDotOrg wrote:Once upon a time, we used to have the Fairness Doctrine. The FCC did away with it in 1987. I think removal of the Fairness Doctrine helped build the climate of fear and anger that exists today.

There is no more consistent political tradition in America than presidents delegitimizing the press. In 1798, against the background of a possible war, President John Adams signed the Alien and Sedition Acts to criminalize his critics’ speech, notably that of newspaper and pamphlet proprietors who opposed him. President Thomas Jefferson, whose love-hate relationship with the press must have stressed his analyst, wrote in 1807, “Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.” President Ulysses S. Grant had the press in mind when he concluded his second inaugural address this way: “Throughout the war, and from my candidacy for my present office in 1868 to the close of the last presidential campaign, I have been the subject of abuse and slander scarcely ever equaled in political history.”

President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who carried on a longitudinal war with Chicago Tribune publisher Robert R. McCormick, once admonished a reporter by giving him a dunce hat and instructing him to sit in the corner. At the close of a 1942 press conference, FDR handed a Nazi Iron Cross to a reporter and asked him to award it to a New York Daily News columnist who was in attendance and whose work he disliked. President Richard M. Nixon fashioned Vice President Spiro Agnew into his weapon against the press, dispatching him to assail the instant analyses the East-Coast-centric television monopolies directed against Nixon’s speeches.

Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:...

So, I think I overstated what ought to be done with a President who is so overtly antagonistic toward bad publicity. It's shocking, in that I recall prior Presidents repeatedly affirming the Press' right to report freely and even critically. I also balk at a President taking these small baby steps toward authoritarianism. We have too many lessons from history that show these kinds of statements and small actions lead to bigger problems down the road.

- Doc

EAllusion wrote:

MeDotOrg wrote:Once upon a time, we used to have the Fairness Doctrine. The FCC did away with it in 1987. I think removal of the Fairness Doctrine helped build the climate of fear and anger that exists today.

When Trump talks like this, I think part of him is just saying he wants the fairness doctrine back because he's too dumb to realize how much doing away with it advantaged people like him. Of course, if he were to get it, then his authoritarian instincts would kick in and the continued existence of non-Fox and Friends level coverage would cause him to still demand censorship.

subgenius wrote:where in that tweet did he call for censorship?