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 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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The press is the enemy of the people when it chooses on ideology over another and works to protect the powerful and corrupt in one camp while tearing down and defaming those in the other.
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They didn’t do it when obama was president. Why?
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Good luck with that! Senator
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Because at the Denver Post - we don't have enough space/time to be fair.


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America IS NOT A DEMOCRACY. America is a CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC. But then you knew that and are just being your usual disingenuous self.
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We know what our elected officials are doing : here is a few examples:1 .
@RepAdamSchiff he is doing nothing but spread his communist paid propaganda and renaming an occasional post office:2:@SenFeinstein nothing happening here either except making 56 million from Chinese -
Investments,then the fbi gives her a heads up about her Chinese chauffeur of 20 years being a Chinese spy? Coincidence?3.
@RepMaxineWaters is going on all the news stations pushing for a civil war!And you seam to be with here with you dividing statements and smirking comebacks
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Then why do all of you lie willingly when you know the truth which you do not print.
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You mean of course what Republicans are doing, you don’t care much about what dems are doing behind closed doors, too one sided
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behind closed doors? yeah, ideally, but in real life, not one msm business does that .. not one ..
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government != business
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