A Precedent against the President.
The news is biased. That is undoubtedly true. Living with the gross exaggerations and downright lies of British tabloids can be immensely frustrating and infuriating. They lie!
Even the BBC is politically motivated. I remember their deliberate proThatcher policy of inverting events at the Orgreave coking plant. It was blatant.
But it was a documentary on Channel 4 that exposed the BBC lie.
I saw Tony Blair once at an education conference and he told us that the speech we were hearing would be misrepresented on the news – and it was.
I always bear in mind that news has to be taken with a pinch of salt.
But News is the bedrock of democracy. Without unbiased news we do not have democracy.
Trump has been deliberately undermining the media. He calls it all fake news. Every time they reveal his lies he calls them fake.
This is a catalogue of Trump’s 3001 blatant lies – https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/23/opinion/trumps-lies.html
His calling out of the media is an attempt to cover up his lying. He is covering his tracks and feeding raw meat to his rabid followers. The truth goes out the window.
These people have been told that the media lies so they go looking for truth on line. What they find is blatant propaganda and they believe it! Incredible!
It is totally unprecedented for the whole press of America to come together to do an editorial on Trump’s lying and false accusations. No President in the history of the States has generated such hostility.
Of course – the rabid Trump supporters love it.
The big loser is stability and democracy. Trump’s attack on the media is destabilising and threatens the whole bedrock of democracy.
Personally I would prefer to live with a flawed news system. At least I know where I stand with them and can read between the lines.
Trump is actually attacking the whole fabric of what holds a society together in order to benefit in terms of wealth and power. He is feeding off this hostility and division. He is fuelling it.
Where will it end?