{"id":39834,"date":"2018-11-26T13:09:08","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T21:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=39834"},"modified":"2018-11-26T13:17:42","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T21:17:42","slug":"hair-trump-declares-that-something-has-to-be-done-about-cnn-exercising-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=39834","title":{"rendered":"Hair Trump Declares that &#8216;Something Has to Be Done&#8217; About CNN Exercising Free Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The hostility that Donald Trump has shown for the media has been a constant dating back to his first days on the campaign trail. It only escalated as time went by and his insults became anti-constitutional assertions that the media is <em>&#8220;the enemy of the people.&#8221;<\/em> Add to that his overt threats, incitements to violence, and banning of reporters he doesn&#8217;t like, and you have the very model of a modern media oppressor.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-cnn-logo.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump, CNN\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-38599\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/2443693792312068\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Advs\/fb-share-tn.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"20\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Monday morning Trump reached another new low in his assaults on the free press. In a pair tweets the President attacked his favorite nemesis, CNN for having a <em>&#8220;powerful voice&#8221;<\/em> that is <em>&#8220;portraying the United States in an unfair and and false way.&#8221;<\/em> He tweeted that:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8230;.and false way. Something has to be done, including the possibility of the United States starting our own Worldwide Network to show the World the way we really are, GREAT!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1067142820388052993?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 26, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Make no mistake, this is a full frontal attack on the First Amendment of the Constitution. Trump has no business commenting on the ratings of a news network that covers his corrupt and criminal administration independently and accurately (FYI: CNN is enjoying some of their <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adweek.com\/tvnewser\/2017-ratings-cnn-is-down-in-prime-time-but-earns-its-largest-audience-ever-in-total-day\/353147\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">highest ratings<\/a><\/strong> in the network&#8217;s history). Especially considering that he has already tried to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=39774\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ban their White House correspondent<\/a><\/strong>, Jim Acosta, from the presidential press corps, but lost when a federal court issued a temporary restraining order to prohibit his flagrant discrimination.<\/p>\n<p>However, even worse is Trump&#8217;s proposal that the United States start its own <em>&#8220;Worldwide Network&#8221;<\/em> to disseminate what can only be presumed to be Trump-fluffing propaganda. The notion that the U.S. should launch a network to compete with commercial news outlets around the world is a frightening expansion of government interfering with the press. It is the sort of state-run tripe that totalitarian regimes like that of Russia&#8217;s Vladimir Putin and North Korea&#8217;s Kin Jong Un engage in. And note that Trump admits that his intention Is to produce only positive propaganda that portrays him as <em>&#8220;GREAT!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. already has government media services that distribute approved content around the world via the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usagm.gov\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">United States Agency for Global Media<\/a><\/strong> (formerly that Broadcasting Board of Governors). That agency runs the Voice of American, Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty, Office of Cuba Broadcasting, and other government managed broadcast operations.<\/p>\n<p>But what Trump is proposing is something far more ambitious and dishonest. He wants a network that competes with commercial news enterprises like CNN, SKY News, the BBC, Al Jazeera, and more. He wants a network that will always praise him, defend him, and malign his critics. He wants constant adulation and coverage that portrays him as the returning Messiah. He wants cult worship.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, Fox News is already doing that. But setting that aside, presidential hero-worship is not the role of a government that was founded on the principles of freedom of the press. It is neither honest nor ethical. And there is no agency under federal law that could house such a media mutation. But it does display the aspirations of a wannabe dictator who is obsessed with controlling all of the media that covers him and his regime. And it is no surprise that Trump is openly advocating for something so contrary to American values. But this pathetic pandering to himself and his over-inflated ego will never fly in the U.S. Maybe Vladimir has some network space for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hostility that Donald Trump has shown for the media has been a constant dating back to his first days on the campaign trail. It only escalated as time went by and his insults became anti-constitutional assertions that the media is &#8220;the enemy of the people.&#8221; Add to that his overt threats, incitements to violence, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,1,1200,8],"tags":[42,554,1254,1072],"class_list":["post-39834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-free-press","category-general","category-politics","category-propaganda","tag-cnn","tag-donald-trump","tag-jim-acosta","tag-vladimir-putin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-cnn-logo.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-amu","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38598,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=38598","url_meta":{"origin":39834,"position":0},"title":"Goebbels Redux: White House Bans CNN Reporter Because She Asked Trump Some Questions","author":"Mark NC","date":"7\/26\/2018","format":false,"excerpt":"On Wednesday Donald Trump held an impromptu photo-op with Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European Commission. 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