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Hawkeye10 said:You report what he said and leave it at that. You trust the people. You most certainly dont go "You know of course that he is lying and is not suitable for the presidency". Not if you are a real journalist you dont. Acting like you are in charge of the gates of truth when the people have the internet and thus dont need your gate is about the dumbest thing I have seen the elite do, and they sure have sure come up with some doozies.
The bolded claims is problematic, for a couple of reasons.
First, it's not clear that this, exactly, is the sort of thing Obama wants the press to do.
Second, and more importantly, your postion is not consistent. If Trump lies, it's a fact that he lied. If the point of the press is to report facts, it is just as incumbent upon them to report that fact as any other.
One reason a press exists is that the world is complex. If you acknowledge that people need a press to report what a candidate said, you cannot deny that people need a press to report that a candidate's claim about (say) some complex financial transaction, or some geographically remote event, is false.
Ideally, the way that this would be done is that the claim would be reported, and then the contradictory fact. Based on my observation of the reporting done so far this campaign season, this is just what the press is not doing, usually.