Donald Trump’s disturbing war on the press has now escalated
The Donald Trump vengeance tour is on the road and the media is in its crosshairs. “It should have been the justice department or somebody else, but I have to do it,” the president-elect intoned on Monday. “It costs a lot of money to do it, but we have to straighten out the press.”
“Our press is very corrupt,” he continued. “Almost as corrupt as our elections.”
Also on Monday, a 15-year-old student in Wisconsin killed two people, injured six others, and took her own life with a 9mm pistol. The US supreme court, however, accords firearms the same constitutional protections as speech and worship. In Trumpworld, guns and the second amendment rock, the press not so much.
Presumably the Gruaniad wishes its easily triggered readers to remain undisturbed by hints of an obvious, long-running cause for Donald Trump's attitude to media bias.
For the view he took of life was very simple, undisturbed by any sense of irony, unspoiled by curiosity, or desire to link effect with cause, or indeed, to admit the necessity of cause at all.
John Galsworthy – A Motley (1910)
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You do wonder about media people. They are a group who've aggregated over time to a constituency with uniformly progressive left world views and it never occurs to them, that there may be other opinions about how society could be run; historical perspectives; other world views.
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