With the capitulation of ABC and several billionaires who own media outlets to Trump’s threats, do we still have freedom of the press as guaranteed in the Constitution in this country?
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Modi, in India bought out all major mainline media through his cronies.
next is, journalists who speak the truth to power, are critical of Modi govt, are either raided, harrassed, snooped upon or jailed.
BBC was also not spared.
hope USA doesn't reach there.
but Modi and Trump are identical twins.
You can't have freedom of the press when it is so easily bought and journalists have no backbone or obligation to report the truth.
The Constitution is largely a thing of the past, not enough Americans wanted it.
USA has a press, not journalism. Propaganda, not news. Alternative facts, not facts. Misinformation, not information. Authoritarianism, not democracy. Soon Project 2025, not a Constitution, if we all don’t stand up and scream every damn day. Don’t forget local politicians!
Yes, BUT we have to stop equating “the press” with Fox, Cox, and Comcast.
The PRESS are the people on the ground, collecting the facts, getting the updates from inside sources, and getting it out to the people. Thankfully the coming unqualified self-serving admin will likely be very leaky.
Don't think so if it's owned by a billionaire who has interests in one candidate winning over another. Wouldn't trust many media outlets and publcations now. They used to be greatly respected but I don't think they will be for too long.
If not, I fear all our freedoms will slowly either be severely compromised or competely taken away..."like death by a thousand cuts," especially if the media et al continues to normalize Trump out of fear of retribution. These are scary times for sure, Barbra.
Watch independent news on YouTube.There are no billionaires pulling their strings. Ben Meiselas of the Meidas Touch Network just did an interview with President Biden airing tomorrow.
Please ask Alexa about the last few Presidents. She claims she knows nothing. I asked about Trump and Alexa leads off with lies and exaggerations about "accomplishments". Another person has sold out to him. Scary and more signs of facism.
I feel he really wants to alter the constitution. Also, him claiming he wants Canada as the 51st state and possibly owning Greeland. I believe he views himself as royalty.
We won’t when he takes office. Until his minions take their balls out of his pockets we will lose more and more freedoms. So say all fascists and communists.
He's about a month away from having an official government job again, but did you see the "Thank You" note he already had his flunky on the FCC send the CEO of Disney/ABC, Bob Iger?
In a nutshell: watch what you say on your network, or it's your licenses.
I disagree with the term capitulation. I believe their goals are aligned with his goals and they will happily go along with his fascist agenda. They are oligarch owned corporate propaganda at this point and should not be treated as objective surveyors of truth.
I don't think we have had a free press for a long time. The media has felt compelled to use false balance to pursue "controversy" when there is none and to present "both sides" when only one is truly valid to make money for conservative owners.
No, because the corporations who own the media are dictating the narrative of the broadcasts. I follow independent media outlets such as Status Coup, Breaking Points, Secular Talk, The Real News Network.
The truly free press outlets seem very hard to find. As almost all the other evils that are plaguing the country (and world) right now, it seems money in the hands of a few is the root of the problem.
Do you mean the freedom to lie and misinform the public with false news reporting, using fake and anonymous sources as a basis to concoct any fake story they choose? And to pick and choose whatever they choose to follow a liberal narrative? Hunter's laptop? Russian collusion?? Wake up Babs.
MORE PARTISAN HYSTERIA!! THE DEMS OWNED THE MEDIA UNTIL DONALD TRUMP AND ELON MUSK TOOK ACTION!! I NEVER HEARD YOU COMPLAIN BACK WHEN THE DEMS CONTROLLED THE MEDIA!! YOU’RE NOTHING BUT A HYPOCRITE AND A PARTISAN SHILL!!
I have considered supporting press willing to stand up against law suits intended to intimidate by subscribing to their paper. Has anyone else considered subscribing to the Des Moines Register to support their battle with Trump? It seems a bit like donating to a political cause. Sound interesting?
No! Trump wants to destroy the Constitution and enrich himself. We will have to endure the pillaging of our country for 4 years. The Resistance must be fearless, never doubting that Trump will reap what he has sown.
Authoritarians always say the press is the enemy of the people. In the U.S. it began at Inauguration Day of 2017, with the crowd size and the alternative facts!
We haven't had freedom of press since 2016 when MSM became the Democrat propaganda machine. The collapse of CNN and MSNBC and other liberal networks is just proof that Americans aren't buying the BS anymore.
Ms. Streisand, I think you are really asking if the mainstream media are somehow being forced by Trump to return to being journalists and practice unbiased reporting. I for one think that's a good thing. And it's being done because of crashing viewership, not Trump. Mass firings and huge paycutts.
We barely have representation to go along with our taxation at this point. I'd say there's people in this country who have less representation now than the colonists did.
The last time we enjoyed "freedom of the press" may have been when you were at Erasmus, and I was at Midwood (writing for the "Argus" & "Road Ahead" about Tammany Hall).
Disputing the reliability and validity of the polio vaccine is what a mentally deranged person would do The proof of its effectiveness are in the statistics
We do still have it. Corporate owned media organizations will “bend the knee” because they are no longer journalist but profit seekers. Independent journalism will fill that gap but are very much at risk. We are entering into scary times. We have normalized so much. We lost truth, trust and time.
don't think so. social media is a well of conspiracy theories and newspapers seem to be afraid of the dictator. he is reaching his goals like nazis in 1930's.
I feel like we really don’t have a free press any more. I saw All the President’s Men not too long ago and it’s such a soothing watch now… miss the days when you felt like there were newspaper reporters hot on the trail of a story somewhere. Now it all seems so political all leaning to the right
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next is, journalists who speak the truth to power, are critical of Modi govt, are either raided, harrassed, snooped upon or jailed.
BBC was also not spared.
hope USA doesn't reach there.
but Modi and Trump are identical twins.
The Constitution is largely a thing of the past, not enough Americans wanted it.
The PRESS are the people on the ground, collecting the facts, getting the updates from inside sources, and getting it out to the people. Thankfully the coming unqualified self-serving admin will likely be very leaky.
But ABC is the flagship of that capitulation: Joe Kahn's NY Times is.
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In a nutshell: watch what you say on your network, or it's your licenses.
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