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Newspaper editorials across U.S. rebuke Trump for attacks on press

Fletch said:
I will lecture you on hype any time I please, particularly when you are engaging in it. The left is nothing but hyperbole. Dont believe it? Do a site search and enter the word fascism and see how many threads here include that word. Its virtually every one. There is no fascism in America yet that is all the ignorant and hyperbolic left talk about. Well, when they arent misusing the term racism. You guys are all hyperbole and no substance. You just think that because Trump is in office, you will get a pass. You wont.
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Now that's hilarious.
 
Cute avatar. Dumb arse.
 
Fletch said:
Um, it WAS one guy. Maybe you should actually read your own links.

Thats a lie. You post garbage and I point it out. If you dont like it, dont post crap.

Thats another lie. This entire discussion between you and I is over you liking Trump to Nazi Germany. Despite the fact that you cant argue honestly, I will continue to respond to you because I enjoy pointing out liberal lies. Try arguing honestly once in a while and maybe you and I can actually have a pleasant exchange.
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That phrase from Germany I cited actually predated Nazi Germany. Which proves two things about your post here. First you didn't bother reading the link, and two... you are a a horrible liar and are exactly the kind of troll I said you were.

What an epic face plant you just did. :lol:
 
Fletch said:
I will lecture you on hype any time I please, particularly when you are engaging in it. The left is nothing but hyperbole. Dont believe it? Do a site search and enter the word fascism and see how many threads here include that word. Its virtually every one. There is no fascism in America yet that is all the ignorant and hyperbolic left talk about. Well, when they arent misusing the term racism. You guys are all hyperbole and no substance. You just think that because Trump is in office, you will get a pass. You wont.
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Yada yada and hardly a day passes when some right-wing nut doesn't call me a communist. Give me a break But apparently you guys can't even smell your own turds.

The left has never elected a moron buffoon narcissist incompetent corrupt dictator wannabe like you guys have. You think Trump cares about you?

you have been deceived
 
Fletch said:
Right. And 300 papers joined together to prove that the press is united in their goal to 'get' him.
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The 300 papers joined together because they were upset with Trump's continued attack on the Press.

lol

Y'all are really willing to go far down the road of conspiracy theory to try to spin reality, huh?

lol
 
gdgyva said:
one solution may be to have the government declare all news to be non profit again....fat chance of that happening though
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It can be very simply done. Offer a pay channel news service. You can either have it added as an automatic recurring charge to your cable TV bill or through a voluntary subscription, like Sirius/XM radio. If the public says it wants it badly enough, let's see if they're willing to pay a monthly charge rather than having news channels supported by advertisers. The profit motive drives the need for advertising and the advertisements drive the need for better and better ratings, and that's what distorts the objectivity of the news presentation.

If studies reveal enough of a market, they can try launching a channel based on the same model that is used for C-SPAN.
The budget for one such type news channel would be around 250 million dollars a year. That would work out to approximately two to three dollars a year if every cable and satellite home in the country got the service.
Realistically a budget of about five bucks a month per subscriber would be more than enough to support the budget.
Those who don't want to pay can continue to rely on distorted profit driven news channels if they wish but hereafter they'd know that they weren't getting a clear and impartial look at the facts.

It won't work to have "the government declare all news to be nonprofit again" because prior to 24 hour cable news, television networks were able to operate their news departments as loss leaders because they profited off of daytime and prime time entertainment programming. That is why operating news "in the public interest" was possible.

24 hour cable news channels do not have entertainment programming, they have news programming. It is all they do.
And it simply must make a profit, or they go out of business.

Be forewarned, a news channel of this type would not look or sound anything like what the American public has been conditioned to for the last 25 to 30 years. It would more closely resemble a combination of Reuters, AP, BBC and CBC News.
 
poweRob said:
Moar trumpette victim card playing. Go find your safe space.
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It floors me how many people here on DP are eagerly looking forward to jackbooted authoritarianism where a president can punish or even shut down critics by mere decree. This is how authoritarian dictatorship begins.

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Checkerboard Strangler said:
It floors me how many people here on DP are eagerly looking forward to jackbooted authoritarianism where a president can punish or even shut down critics by mere decree. This is how authoritarian dictatorship begins.
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What a bunch of partisan hooey....
 
Ikari said:
And how many folk from Trump's adminstration have been fired, convicted, under indictment, or took plea deals?

lol

It's crazy the spin here. Either everyone and the press is out to get Trump, or Trump is a ****ty President. Occam's razor.
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Those people were not a part of his administration. They worked for his campaign, exception being, General Flynn.
 
Perhaps if journalists actually reported the news and not just the portion they want you to focus on, there would not be as much "fake news." Why should a media be taken seriously is they only provide a portion of the information? How is that type of "reporting" not an "enemy" to the American people? Are people too ignorant to form their own opinion when presented with enough information to make an informed decision, or is the real goal to "put a ring in their nose and lead them where we want them to go?"
 
poweRob said:
That phrase from Germany I cited actually predated Nazi Germany. Which proves two things about your post here. First you didn't bother reading the link, and two... you are a a horrible liar and are exactly the kind of troll I said you were.

What an epic face plant you just did. :lol:
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I did read your link, then searched for the video it spoke of. It was one guy who said it and your link did exactly what you guys regularly do--take an incident and immediately connect Trump to the worst moments and/or people in history. The point of your post was to do just that--compare Trump to Nazi Germany. Why lie about it now? Thats what you were doing. I called you one it. Now you are pissed. Dont make crap posts and I wont have to call you out.
 
Ikari said:
The 300 papers joined together because they were upset with Trump's continued attack on the Press.

lol

Y'all are really willing to go far down the road of conspiracy theory to try to spin reality, huh?

lol
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Its not a CT, it just happened.
 
Checkerboard Strangler said:
It floors me how many people here on DP are eagerly looking forward to jackbooted authoritarianism where a president can punish or even shut down critics by mere decree. This is how authoritarian dictatorship begins.

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You just dont give up on your fascist garbage do you. The closest thing we have to it is liberals like you pushing the 'big lie' that it exists. Go educate yourself. And take every other leftist with you.
 
JackA said:
You miss the news because you don't bother to look where it is - the written press, where it's always been. You're myopic post is about TV.
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Excellent point. And the target of most of the the President’s “fake news” claims are television channels. The only actual newspapers I’ve seen the President call out (and I’m not an active tracker of these things) are the New York Times and the Washington Post.


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Fletch said:
Its not a CT, it just happened.
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It's CT when you think 300+ newspapers are out to get Trump when they are standing up for the press after years of continued attacks.

lol
 
Ikari said:
It's CT when you think 300+ newspapers are out to get Trump when they are standing up for the press after years of continued attacks.

lol
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Years? Not sure about that, but in just Trump's first month in office he faced far more negative articles then any of his predecessors, with most media focussing on stories of people that didn't vote for Trump. It's almost as if they have an agenda. But, I'm sure they're just "standing up for the press".
 
buck said:
Years? Not sure about that, but in just Trump's first month in office he faced far more negative articles then any of his predecessors, with most media focussing on stories of people that didn't vote for Trump. It's almost as if they have an agenda. But, I'm sure they're just "standing up for the press".
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Trump has been attacking the press ever since he got into office. A lot of the negativity about Trump is generated by Trump through his actions and policies. This is the "everyone is out to get me" excuse, it's like Homer Simpson "It's everyone's fault but mine" excuse. It gets a little ridiculous, and Trump isn't even tempered enough to keep it together, he reacts aggressively and angrily against anything he perceives as negative, and then that just perpetuates everything.

He's made attacking the press as his defacto excuse for anything. We've never had a President quite this bad, quite this divisive. So yes, the papers had banded together against the constant attacks on the media because Trump has been using the excuse for years to defend anything stupid or negative that he's done.
 
Checkerboard Strangler said:
It floors me how many people here on DP are eagerly looking forward to jackbooted authoritarianism where a president can punish or even shut down critics by mere decree. This is how authoritarian dictatorship begins.

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They've always been here. They've always been lovers of authoritarianism. They were just waiting for the right messenger/messiah to follow.
 
Ikari said:
Trump has been attacking the press ever since he got into office. A lot of the negativity about Trump is generated by Trump through his actions and policies. This is the "everyone is out to get me" excuse, it's like Homer Simpson "It's everyone's fault but mine" excuse. It gets a little ridiculous, and Trump isn't even tempered enough to keep it together, he reacts aggressively and angrily against anything he perceives as negative, and then that just perpetuates everything.

He's made attacking the press as his defacto excuse for anything. We've never had a President quite this bad, quite this divisive. So yes, the papers had banded together against the constant attacks on the media because Trump has been using the excuse for years to defend anything stupid or negative that he's done.
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The Trump-hating media is simply trying to tu quoque Trump into silence. Because they conceded their moral high ground to form their cabal sometime before Trump was even sworn into office, the hypocrisy just drips off the pages.
 
Acadia said:
The Trump-hating media is simply trying to tu quoque Trump into silence. Because they conceded their moral high ground to form their cabal sometime before Trump was even sworn into office, the hypocrisy just drips off the pages.
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The CT nuttery drips a lot more.
 
Acadia said:
The Trump-hating media is simply trying to tu quoque Trump into silence. Because they conceded their moral high ground to form their cabal sometime before Trump was even sworn into office, the hypocrisy just drips off the pages.
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lol

There is nothing on the planet that could get Trump to shut up.
 
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