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Nov 7, 2019 20:32:31   #
PeterS
 
Yup, sounds like he knows him well...



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Nov 7, 2019 20:39:29   #
Liberty Tree
 
PeterS wrote:
Yup, sounds like he knows him well...


You mean the way Obama attacked FOX news. The press in Jefferson's day was much different.

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Nov 7, 2019 20:40:47   #
JW
 
PeterS wrote:
Yup, sounds like he knows him well...


The key words there are "free press". If you think 5 "news organizations" parroting the same stories, often word for word, indicates a free press, you're delusional.

My grandfather, who lived under Hitler, told me that when all the news sources say the same thing, worry. He said the truth is in the differences and no differences equals no truth.

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Nov 7, 2019 20:42:58   #
PeterS
 
Liberty Tree wrote:
You mean the way Obama attacked FOX news. The press in Jefferson's day was much different.

You mean Obama attacks ONE news organization and it's the same as Trump attacking EVERY news organization that isn't Fox? Yeah, like that...

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Nov 7, 2019 20:46:16   #
Parky60 Loc: People's Republic of Illinois
 
PeterS wrote:
Yup, sounds like he knows him well...

You're calling them a free press? That's HILARIOUS!

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Nov 7, 2019 20:46:22   #
PeterS
 
JW wrote:
The key words there are "free press". If you think 5 "news organizations" parroting the same stories, often word for word, indicates a free press, you're delusional.

Gosh, you mean it's only free if every news organization tells a different story? And if they pull from the AP or UPI it's going to be the same. The question is, how could Fox, which belongs to both organizations, report anything but what they report? The answer is, they couldn't, unless they made it up...

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Nov 7, 2019 20:48:15   #
Parky60 Loc: People's Republic of Illinois
 
PeterS wrote:
You mean Obama attacks ONE news organization and it's the same as Trump attacking EVERY news organization that isn't Fox? Yeah, like that...

Why would he attack the others? They were in his back pocket. The same leftist ones who attack Trump incessantly.

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Nov 7, 2019 20:50:20   #
Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON
 
PeterS wrote:
Yup, sounds like he knows him well...


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Nov 7, 2019 20:55:14   #
Liberty Tree
 
PeterS wrote:
You mean Obama attacks ONE news organization and it's the same as Trump attacking EVERY news organization that isn't Fox? Yeah, like that...


Obama attacked the one news source who would not walk his line. Trump attacks the news sources deliberately decieving the American people.

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Nov 7, 2019 21:38:20   #
working class stiff Loc: N. Carolina
 
Liberty Tree wrote:
You mean the way Obama attacked FOX news. The press in Jefferson's day was much different.


If by different you mean there was no internet, radio or television, yeah it was different. But partisanship was there from the founding.

https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2016/10/10/think-press-partisan-much-worse-founding-fathers/chronicles/who-we-were/

https://www.britannica.com/topic/party-press-era

During the 1st Adams administration many newspapers critical of the government were prosecuted under the Aliens and Sedition Act for 'fake news'. So...not so different.

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Nov 7, 2019 21:39:25   #
milamber
 
Liberty Tree wrote:
Obama attacked the one news source who would not walk his line. Trump attacks the news sources deliberately decieving the American people.



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Nov 7, 2019 21:46:29   #
Seth
 
PeterS wrote:
Yup, sounds like he knows him well...


When the press abuses its status as a source of news and information to denigrate one political party while cheerleading for the other to the point of lying or otherwise stretching the truth, cherry-picking the dynamics of events or speeches to limit public knowledge of both sides of said events or the full contents of said speeches, they are no longer the "free press" that Jefferson was referring to, they are a propaganda venue.

At that point, all bets are off and the president has every right to expose them for what they are.

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Nov 7, 2019 21:59:28   #
Rose42
 
PeterS wrote:
Gosh, you mean it's only free if every news organization tells a different story? And if they pull from the AP or UPI it's going to be the same. The question is, how could Fox, which belongs to both organizations, report anything but what they report? The answer is, they couldn't, unless they made it up...


You forget Obama’s war with the press. Or is that okay since he was a democrat?

Neither Trump nor Obama were the first to be at war with the press. And anyone paying attention can see how the press has become more activists than wver.

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Nov 7, 2019 22:49:59   #
Radiance3
 
PeterS wrote:
Yup, sounds like he knows him well...

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During the times of Thomas Jefferson, there was the press that states facts, honesty, with professional and moral integrity.

Currently, we cannot call a press a press, because they do not report facts, but lies, deceptions, fabrications to mislead the people. It's not Free Press at this time, but free LIES,to meet their agenda.

The present press is one sided. It is not a press to report factual events to the people. It is an instrument, or weapon of the socialist-democrats to aid and abet their lies and deceptions for political destruction of president Trump and the republican party.



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Nov 7, 2019 23:28:21   #
JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida
 
PeterS wrote:
You mean Obama attacks ONE news organization and it's the same as Trump attacking EVERY news organization that isn't Fox? Yeah, like that...


Is the press free troll when they protect Harvey Weinstein or quash an Epstein investigation? How about them allowing the governor of Va a pass on wearing blackface? The press is free. Free to be biased and partisan. Is it coincidence that of the MSM personnel that contributed to political parties that these same people gave over 95% of their contributions to Democrats?
I actually believe this doesn’t bother you at all because you’re an anti-American little troll which everyone sees through.

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