President Trump has spent the last decade criticizing false news, a phrase that is now deeply integrated into our culture.
He has accused the means of being relentlessly biased against him, which is largely true, and called journalists by name. It has sued at points of sale as ABC News (which paid $ 16 million), CBS and the desire registration.
He has accused that politician received payments for covering it negatively, it turned out that these were routine subscriptions, and also for the New York Times, and then canceled many of the subscriptions.
Trump orders the dismantling of the media media funded by the Government.
But in a controversial speech in the Department of Justice, Trump went beyond ever. He said the Times, the Washington Post and the main networks dedicated themselves to informing “illegal.”
The president did not specify what was illegal about it. But maybe there is a short distance between Trump's accusation and future prosecution?
The speech of the Department of Justice attracted strong coverage. The Times said that “he deviated from his comments prepared to attack lawyers and former prosecutors by name in a place dedicated to the impartial administration of justice. He also accused the previous leadership of the department to try to destroy him and declared former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. the head of a” criminal “family.”
President Trump has effectively destroyed Voice of America. He has punished the exit as blatantly leftist and once called the “voice of the Soviet Union.” (Getty images)
The post quoted Trump saying that his enemies had “launched an operation of deception and misinformation after another, violated the law on a colossal scale, pursued my family, personal and followers, raided my home, Mar-a-lago, and did everything within his power to prevent me from becoming the president of the United States.” The document added: “It is rare for a president to visit the Department of Justice, which has kept safeguards between the White House and the agency for the application of the law in the era after the Watergate to ensure that the policy does not interfere with police investigations.”
But here is the fascinating part.
The Times and the Post did not mention the “illegal” report of Trump. He didn't give it as much as a paragraph. I could not squeeze it (I say joke, since the space is unlimited in the digital age).
I see two possible explanations for this.
One is that they are so offended by the president's accusation, that they consider false, that they do not want to give it oxygen and share it with the readers. In other words, when the president is shooting arrows, it is better to divert them.
The other is that they fear that there may be a prosecution in the future, given the history of Trump civil demands, and do not want to cross it on this issue. In short, the president intimidates them.
The charges of President Trump of “illegal” reports of the main media were not initially found with any real type of direct reprimand, scathing that one would expect. (Pool through AP)
But here is the thing: if two of the preeminent newspapers of the nation are not defended by illegality, who is it? How can you expect any support when they don't defend themselves, censor Trump's comments?
Meanwhile, during the weekend, the president abolished the voice of America and Radio Free Europe with an executive order addressed to his parent agency, whose special advisor is the former candidate of Arizona Kari Lake.
Trump ordered 1,300 journalists, executives and other employees on indefinite license. His argument is that they are part of the radical left. He is a critic for a long time of VOA, who once called the “voice of the Soviet Union.”
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Carla Babb, correspondent of the Pentagon of the VOA, published this: “A VOA silencing will be celebrated by communists, autocrats and ayatolás whose lies we shed light.”
VOA was launched during World War II and successfully attributed successfully counteracting enemy propaganda for decades. But there is a legitimate debate about who the “enemy” is these days, given Trump's friendly relationship with Vladimir Putin.
In addition, people are not curled up around their radios as they were in 1942.
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But those who were dismissed are considered indefinitely independent journalists, and suddenly they are out of work.
