(February 25, 2017 at 5:40 am)Orochi Wrote:(February 25, 2017 at 1:13 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Ummmm, the people holding a conference decide who gets invited. The press are the guests, not the hosts.
The press exists to hold our leaders accountable and call them out when they lie . Not be invited to kiss there ass. Any President who wavers from this is a coward . And no there not guests. There the inquisition there to hold a leaders feet to the fire. And there no host there the accused there to answer the peoples concerns .
^Exactly this. What Trump and his ilk don't seem to grasp is that the relationship between the press and the government is meant to be an adversarial one. To dismiss any reportage that displeases you or casts you in a bad light as 'fake news' is to move the relationship from 'adversarial' to 'inimical'.
When the press get something wrong, common practice is to print what is known as a retraction. ['This newspaper recently reported that Counselor Deltoid P. Hamsterpuncher was filmed having unprotected sex with a lawn tractor. Further investigation revealed that the Counselor was, in fact, wearing a condom during the assignation. We regret the error.']. And when the government feels the press to be in error, the proper course of action is to explain why this is so. The current 'liar liar, pants on fire' tactic of the Trumpites is both troubling and dangerous.
Boru
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