Americans Struggle To Understand Their Most Important Document
The bad news is that only 43% of Republicans think that Trump should be able to shut down any news media outlets that he deems to be serving up “fake news.” Thus the good news: 57% of Republicans have at least some understanding of the U.S. Constitution. To simplify, the (slim) majority of Republicans understand the First Amendment, and some of them, presumably, know that there are legal and constitutionally valid remedies to libel that are available to the president, and anyone else.
Craig,
The President has never called for, or ever suggested, any form of government law to censor the media.
He is entitled as a public figure to seek any means at his disposal to respond to what he considers attacks and media distortions. As a public figure he is entitled to resort to social media and rallies to speak directly to the American people.
If the media feels it’s being attacked and excluded, maybe it should consider its own bad behaviour for a loss of credibility and faith in the hearts of the general public.
Too many sensational distortions, paparazzi, ‘gotcha’ journalism.. Too much bias, too much obsession with salacious dirt possessing very little substance or relevance, too many poorly researched invested ‘scandals’ , just …well,.. too much!
But most of all, too much arrogance! The media forgot their primary job was to report and analyze public policy, not decide public policy. In the end, after decades of dominating politicians, technology provided a method of the politicians escaping the thrall.
It took an outsider, Donald Trump to break free and beat the media entrapment. The genie is now out of the bottle and nothing will bring back the unbridled power of the press.