The Trump administration's escalating war on the media | KALW
There's a lot to discuss. Paramount, the owner of CBS, and Disney, the owner of ABC, have agreed to pay Trump millions of dollars to settle lawsuits. The White House has banned Associated Press reporters from the Oval Office and other presidential events after the outlet refused to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. The White House recently prohibited a Wall Street Journal reporter from boarding Air Force One to cover Trump's trip to Scotland after the paper published an article on July 17 called: Jeffrey Epstein's friends sent him bawdy letters for a 50th birthday. One was from Donald Trump. Trump has filed a $10 billion defamation lawsuit against News Corp and chair emeritus and longtime Trump ally Rupert Murdoch. News Corp owns the Wall Street Journal.
Tim Richardson, journalism and disinformation program manager at PEN America, told HuffPost this sets a dangerous precedent and it’s hard to say where this ends
I never thought I would say I wish George W was back in office. He was horrid. He wasted billions on a couple wars that accomplished little. But he respected the United States Constitution and he respected the rule of law. The man we see in the oval office now makes his own laws and see the Constitution as a barrier to autocratic tendencies. If we make it through the next 3 1/2 years as a democracy, it will be a minor miracle.
Hungary's Orban demonstrates how to dismantle democracy : NPR
Orban, 61, is in his fourth consecutive term as prime minister. In that time, he and his allies have dismantled democratic checks and balances, taken control of the country's media, civil society and universities, and consolidated power in himself and his Fidesz party. The dismantling of Hungary's democracy is a point of fascination for political scientists around the world — including those advising the Trump administration.
trump is following, with amazing accuracy, the plan laid out by Orban and his cronies. And the repub party is an accessory these efforts.
There's a lot to discuss. Paramount, the owner of CBS, and Disney, the owner of ABC, have agreed to pay Trump millions of dollars to settle lawsuits. The White House has banned Associated Press reporters from the Oval Office and other presidential events after the outlet refused to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. The White House recently prohibited a Wall Street Journal reporter from boarding Air Force One to cover Trump's trip to Scotland after the paper published an article on July 17 called: Jeffrey Epstein's friends sent him bawdy letters for a 50th birthday. One was from Donald Trump. Trump has filed a $10 billion defamation lawsuit against News Corp and chair emeritus and longtime Trump ally Rupert Murdoch. News Corp owns the Wall Street Journal.
Tim Richardson, journalism and disinformation program manager at PEN America, told HuffPost this sets a dangerous precedent and it’s hard to say where this ends
I never thought I would say I wish George W was back in office. He was horrid. He wasted billions on a couple wars that accomplished little. But he respected the United States Constitution and he respected the rule of law. The man we see in the oval office now makes his own laws and see the Constitution as a barrier to autocratic tendencies. If we make it through the next 3 1/2 years as a democracy, it will be a minor miracle.
Hungary's Orban demonstrates how to dismantle democracy : NPR
Orban, 61, is in his fourth consecutive term as prime minister. In that time, he and his allies have dismantled democratic checks and balances, taken control of the country's media, civil society and universities, and consolidated power in himself and his Fidesz party. The dismantling of Hungary's democracy is a point of fascination for political scientists around the world — including those advising the Trump administration.
trump is following, with amazing accuracy, the plan laid out by Orban and his cronies. And the repub party is an accessory these efforts.
