Trump Accelerates His War On The Free Press With Desire To End All Fact Checks
http://www.politicususa.com/2016/09/25/trump-accelerates-war-free-press-desire-fact-checks.html
The Trump campaign has accelerated their war on the First Amendment by putting forward the idea that reporters should never at any time fact check Trump...
The belief that fact checking is wrong is the foundation of Trump’s media criticism. When Trump claims that a reporter or network is “unfair” to him, his basis for the claim is that they fact-checked him. Trump views the role of the free press as to cover everything his says and praise him. His belief that the media should be a megaphone instead of a reality check is why Trump has been camping out exclusively on Fox News for weeks.
The one thing that is never seen on Trump’s Fox News programs of choice is a fact check of his statements.
Donald Trump is an opponent of press freedom. It would be easy to see a Trump White House intimidate fact checks out of existence by targeting reporters and outlets who fact check the president for retribution. A press that can’t criticize or fact check a president is not free, which is exactly what Donald Trump wants.
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