{"id":19848,"date":"2017-02-18T04:21:26","date_gmt":"2017-02-18T04:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19848"},"modified":"2017-02-18T04:21:26","modified_gmt":"2017-02-18T04:21:26","slug":"media-are-the-enemy-seriously-mr-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19848","title":{"rendered":"Media are ‘the enemy’? Seriously, Mr. President?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The unique aspect of social media forums — such as, say, Twitter — is that no matter how quickly you take something down the original expression remains embedded in the public mind.<\/p>\n

Donald J. Trump tweeted a statement declaring that the “media is the enemy of the American people.”<\/p>\n

The president deleted it almost immediately. But … oops!<\/em> … it’s still out there.<\/p>\n

Thus, we’ve gotten another look into the weird mind of our nation’s head of state.<\/p>\n

The media aren’t the “enemy.” <\/a>Trump might believe it simply because media representatives are asking sometimes-difficult questions. His senior White House political strategist, Steve Bannon, has encouraged the media to “keep quiet” and has called the media “the opposition party.”<\/p>\n

What neither of these men quite get — or so it appears — is that the media are part of the American fabric. The Constitution guarantees a “free press” that shouldn’t be shackled or silenced by government pressure or coercion.<\/p>\n

Yet that seems to be part of what is happening now with the new president, who’s been in office less than a single month.<\/p>\n

Trump’s critics have lamented what they consider the “danger” that the president\u00a0 presents to our democratic system. I am beginning to believe a president who blurts out ill-considered statements about the media being the “enemy” of Americans is painting a frightening picture for the country he purports to lead.<\/p>\n\n

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The unique aspect of social media forums — such as, say, Twitter — is that no matter how quickly you take something down the original expression remains embedded in the public mind. Donald J. Trump tweeted a statement declaring that the “media is the enemy of the American people.” The president deleted it almost immediately. … Continue reading Media are ‘the enemy’? Seriously, Mr. President?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1424,1738,4300,6673,4932,5043],"class_list":["post-19848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-first-amendment","tag-social-media","tag-steve-bannon","tag-twitter","tag-us-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19850,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19848\/revisions\/19850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}