Our President attacks #freepress & calls journalism #fakenews. Thomas Jefferson had a different approach: “Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter."pic.twitter.com/URDCmJRY51
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"We believe that an informed electorate is critical to Democracy; that the public has a right to know what [elected officials] are doing behind closed doors; that journalism is integral to the checks and balances of power."
@denverposthttps://www.denverpost.com/2018/08/16/denver-post-truth-in-journalism/ …Show this thread -
“We strive to allow justice to flourish by telling America what we see, what we hear and what we reveal. Only truth can ensure justice in a society, and only a free and unfettered press can offer a society truth.”
@SentinelColohttps://www.sentinelcolorado.com/0trending/editorial-truth-and-the-american-press-are-not-enemies-of-the-people/ …Show this thread -
“The journalists whose work you find in this newspaper are profoundly devoted to fulfilling the role of a free press in local communities…Their primary goals are accuracy and objectivity. Every reporter. Every story. Every day.”
@dailycamerahttp://www.dailycamera.com/editorials/ci_32073125/editorial-enemy-free-press-boulder-trump-journalists …Show this thread -
“Responding to the absurd notion that we're the enemy of the people is beneath the dignity of the Fourth Estate. Let the president say what he will and journalists will quote him. He can be, after all, his own worst enemy.”
@DailySentinelGJ https://www.gjsentinel.com/opinion/editorials/enemy-of-the-people/article_ee7b83c4-a0e5-11e8-8c9f-10604b9f7e7c.html …Show this thread -
“Both sides of this conflict (
@POTUS & media) need to think about the public. They should restore the decorum expected in an advanced, civilized society built on diverse perspectives, free speech and freedom of the press.”@csgazettehttps://gazette.com/opinion/editorial-we-need-civility-among-president-and-press-corps/article_fc3ede82-a100-11e8-9f6f-77a17ac6af41.html …Show this thread -
“The role journalism plays in our free society is too crucial to allow this degradation to continue. We aren’t the enemy of the people. We are the people. We aren’t fake news. We are your news & we struggle night/day to get the facts right.”
@DurangoHeraldhttps://durangoherald.com/articles/236688-were-with-you-today-we-join-more-than-100-newspapers-to-set-the-record-straight-about-our-work …Show this thread -
“The true enemy of any democracy is ignorance, and the only way to battle ignorance is through the acquisition of knowledge. The frayed social compact between the news media and its audience must be rebuilt.”
@ChieftainNews https://www.chieftain.com/opinion/editorials/your-enemy-not-hardly/article_552bbf6e-ac91-5ae1-91a2-646ccfc1c7f0.html …Show this thread -
"We all are entitled to opinions & to express them as part of a rich & informed conversation about the issues of the day. But we're not entitled to our own facts. Facts are not partisan and when they are dismissed as 'fake news,' we all lose."
@ColoradoSunhttps://mailchi.mp/coloradosun/politics-aside-local-journalism-is-essential-to-local-democracy …Show this thread
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I very much appreciate these editorials, and today's Senate non-binding resolution, but is there more you can do to highlight the perfidy and danger of these claims by the President? I feel like Congress is absent from the discussion as our democracy is being eroded.
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You mean like a major political party plotting& trying tirelessly to overturn a democratic election even before the winner was sworn in? That your idea of trying to improve our democratic institutions?
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Fake news is the enemy of truth. The enemy of truth is the enemy of the people.
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