Is it the media's turn in the barrel?

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Voters had delivered the president to the White House for a second term, disregarding news about arrests and indictments of former aides accused of breaking the law to help keep him in power. Now, the newly emboldened president and his top officials had a message for the reporters who covered it all so aggressively: It was payback time.

As senior officials blasted journalists as “arrogant elitists” out of touch with “real America,” the administration threatened the licenses of local TV stations carrying the major networks’ newscasts and moved to slash funding for the “liberal-slanted” PBS.

The president was not Donald J. Trump. He was Richard M. Nixon. The scandal he thought he had outrun, Watergate, would ultimately force his resignation. And his brazen anti-press moves, which initially appeared to cow journalists, would stall in an onslaught of revelations about his role in covering up wrongdoing in his West Wing.

That dark chapter in media history is suddenly relevant again, as the second administration of President Trump resorts to a heavy-handed approach to traditional journalists that has all the hallmarks of his predecessor’s attempted press crackdown some 50 years ago.

Trump’s Blueprint for Bending the Media Has Nixon Written All Over It

Trump and Musk Attack Journalists by Name in Social Media Posts

President Trump has made clear his animus toward mainstream media organizations. Now he’s getting more personal.

Mr. Trump and his key lieutenant, Elon Musk, who has been empowered to run what they call the Department of Government Efficiency as a “special government employee,” have attacked journalists by name in recent days on the social media platforms they own: Truth Social and X.

On his Truth Social account on Friday, Mr. Trump called for The Washington Post to fire Eugene Robinson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, and labeled him “incompetent.” Mr. Trump frequently posts on the account to his millions of followers and regularly condemns perceived enemies.

Mr. Robinson had written in an opinion column on Thursday that top Republican senators “should be ashamed of themselves” for not standing up to Mr. Trump during the confirmation process for some of his cabinet picks and for not protesting Mr. Musk’s taking an ax to government departments like the United States Agency for International Development, which administers foreign aid programs. Mr. Robinson also appeared on “Morning Joe” on MSNBC on Friday to discuss his column.

Trump and Musk Attack Journalists by Name in Social Media Posts

Not that attacks on the media are anything new for Don. They are a big part of his schtick. But they are a bit more ominous now that we've seen folks like Zuckerberg, Bezos, and CBS allow trump to sodomize them. Absent the lube.

After Bezos ended the WaPo's tradition of endorsing a prez candidate, followed by the resignation of an op-ed columnist and a political cartoonist in protest of a newly imposed editorial policy designed not to ruffle trump's feathers, should Eugene Robinson be polishing up his resume for stating the obvious? Namely, Repubs should be ashamed of themselves for not speaking out against trump because they know better.

Achieving a cowed and diminished press is autocratic rule 101. Success doesn't necessitate firing journalists though. It can be more subtle. Like coercing them in to not writing a piece they would ordinarily write out of fear of retribution.
 
Voters had delivered the president to the White House for a second term, disregarding news about arrests and indictments of former aides accused of breaking the law to help keep him in power. Now, the newly emboldened president and his top officials had a message for the reporters who covered it all so aggressively: It was payback time.

As senior officials blasted journalists as “arrogant elitists” out of touch with “real America,” the administration threatened the licenses of local TV stations carrying the major networks’ newscasts and moved to slash funding for the “liberal-slanted” PBS.

The president was not Donald J. Trump. He was Richard M. Nixon. The scandal he thought he had outrun, Watergate, would ultimately force his resignation. And his brazen anti-press moves, which initially appeared to cow journalists, would stall in an onslaught of revelations about his role in covering up wrongdoing in his West Wing.

That dark chapter in media history is suddenly relevant again, as the second administration of President Trump resorts to a heavy-handed approach to traditional journalists that has all the hallmarks of his predecessor’s attempted press crackdown some 50 years ago.

Trump’s Blueprint for Bending the Media Has Nixon Written All Over It

Trump and Musk Attack Journalists by Name in Social Media Posts

President Trump has made clear his animus toward mainstream media organizations. Now he’s getting more personal.

Mr. Trump and his key lieutenant, Elon Musk, who has been empowered to run what they call the Department of Government Efficiency as a “special government employee,” have attacked journalists by name in recent days on the social media platforms they own: Truth Social and X.

On his Truth Social account on Friday, Mr. Trump called for The Washington Post to fire Eugene Robinson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, and labeled him “incompetent.” Mr. Trump frequently posts on the account to his millions of followers and regularly condemns perceived enemies.

Mr. Robinson had written in an opinion column on Thursday that top Republican senators “should be ashamed of themselves” for not standing up to Mr. Trump during the confirmation process for some of his cabinet picks and for not protesting Mr. Musk’s taking an ax to government departments like the United States Agency for International Development, which administers foreign aid programs. Mr. Robinson also appeared on “Morning Joe” on MSNBC on Friday to discuss his column.

Trump and Musk Attack Journalists by Name in Social Media Posts

Not that attacks on the media are anything new for Don. They are a big part of his schtick. But they are a bit more ominous now that we've seen folks like Zuckerberg, Bezos, and CBS allow trump to sodomize them. Absent the lube.

After Bezos ended the WaPo's tradition of endorsing a prez candidate, followed by the resignation of an op-ed columnist and a political cartoonist in protest of a newly imposed editorial policy designed not to ruffle trump's feathers, should Eugene Robinson be polishing up his resume for stating the obvious? Namely, Repubs should be ashamed of themselves for not speaking out against trump because they know better.

Achieving a cowed and diminished press is autocratic rule 101. Success doesn't necessitate firing journalists though. It can be more subtle. Like coercing them in to not writing a piece they would ordinarily write out of fear of retribution.
They covered up the laptop story and lied about it. They deserve what they get for that alone.
 
They covered up the laptop story and lied about it.
Sure about that?

The complaints from President Donald Trump and his allies have been growing louder as the election approaches: Why isn’t the mainstream media covering the Hunter Biden laptop story?

Trump and his allies say there is evidence of corruption in emails and documents allegedly found on a laptop belonging to Democrat Joe Biden’s son. They say those and other documents show that Hunter Biden used his father’s influence to enrich himself through business deals in Ukraine and China, and that his father not only facilitated that, but may have benefited financially.

But the Wall Street Journal and Fox News — among the only news organizations that have been given access to key documents — found that the emails and other records don’t make that case. Leaving aside the many questions about their provenance, the materials offered no evidence that Joe Biden played any role in his son’s dealings in China, let alone profited from them, both news organizations concluded.

As to Ukraine, a single email published by the New York Post suggests Joe Biden may have had a meeting with a representative of a Ukrainian company that employed his son. Trump and his allies alleged that means Joe Biden has lied when he said he never discussed his son’s business roles. The Biden campaign denies the meeting happened.

The lack of major new revelations is perhaps the biggest reason the story has not gotten traction, but not the only one. Among others: Most mainstream news organizations, including NBC News, have not been granted access to the documents. NBC News asked by email, text, phone call and certified mail, and was ultimately denied.

 
Take Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana), for example, a physician whose sharp and specific questioning at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation hearing illuminated Kennedy’s woeful unfitness to be secretary of health and human services. Beyond the fact that Kennedy is an anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist, Cassidy showed that the nominee couldn’t even keep straight the difference between Medicare and Medicaid. Yet when it was time to decide whether to send Kennedy’s nomination to the full Senate for confirmation, Cassidy voted yes.

As a doctor, Cassidy of all people knows RFK should be thousands of miles away from running HHS. But as all Repubs have done he's putting his own career in politics over the well being of Americans. That's an unforgivable sin for which he will pay no political price.
 
That dark chapter in media history is suddenly relevant again, as the second administration of President Trump resorts to a heavy-handed approach to traditional journalists that has all the hallmarks of his predecessor’s attempted press crackdown some 50 years ago.
Trump’s Blueprint for Bending the Media Has Nixon Written All Over It
Republican presidents have long had an unwarranted contempt for a free press and the right of the people to know – Trump is no different.

Like Nixon before him, Trump’s lawless attacks on a free press is another aspect of Trump’s fascist agenda.
 
More lib partisan hackery from op. Heres corn pop and op uttered not a peep.

Is the difference between investigating leaks that are harmful to national security and going after journalists who are critical of a prez or his policies too nuanced for you to see?
 
Is the difference between investigating leaks that are harmful to national security and going after journalists who are critical of a prez or his policies too nuanced for you to see?

Harmful? Thats a subjective word considering the harm being done to this country by our own govt not some individual pointing out their corruption. Corn pop lets 20 million illegals stroll in and you're going to lecture us about national security. Lol, dont think so.
 
They covered up the laptop story and lied about it. They deserve what they get for that alone.
This is a lie and a failed attempt to deflect.

There was no cover up; indeed, no ‘laptop story.’

And the thread is about Republicans presidents’ contempt for a free press – Trump in particular, and Trump’s efforts to silence the press and violate the right of the people to know.

This sort of dishonesty and deflection by the right is why conservatives are appropriately despised.
 
These Dem SHILL scumbags are not journalists. They don't report the news. They are there for one purpose, to undermine the Republican president and the will of the American people. There's no lie or twisted edited half truth they won't tell to SERVE Democrats.
 
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