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Continued at: thehill.com...
Ever since Trump first rode down the escalator in June 2015, the main objective of Trump news coverage was to prevent the real estate mogul from winning the presidency.
For those keeping score, anti-Trump journalists have now lost two out of three. The journalistic establishment should ponder what all that might mean.
For nine years, the media have reveled in their role as leaders of the anti-Trump resistance.
But the public has shown it doesn’t want the news industry to engage in activist push-journalism. Numerous surveys demonstrate that public trust in the news media is in steep decline.
The Media Research Center has consistently reported the negative tone of news coverage throughout Trump’s political years — and the coverage of this fall’s presidential campaign between Trump and Kamala Harris was particularly disproportionate. The organization reported that 85 percent of Trump coverage on the big three broadcast networks was negative, whereas 78 percent of Harris coverage was positive.
originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: WeMustCare
Nope. Free speech must be kept free, no infringement on first Amendment rights.
originally posted by: WeMustCare
originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: WeMustCare
Nope. Free speech must be kept free, no infringement on first Amendment rights.
Here's a new article detailing how NEWS MEDIA being against the majority of Americans is NOT SMART.
Source: thehill.com...
originally posted by: Lumenari
a reply to: WeMustCare
The upcoming administration certainly should not inhibit free speech in any way, shape or form.
originally posted by: JadedGhost
originally posted by: Lumenari
a reply to: WeMustCare
The upcoming administration certainly should not inhibit free speech in any way, shape or form.
They certainly shouldn’t. It’s almost certainly not going to stop them from trying though.
originally posted by: Lumenari
originally posted by: JadedGhost
originally posted by: Lumenari
a reply to: WeMustCare
The upcoming administration certainly should not inhibit free speech in any way, shape or form.
They certainly shouldn’t. It’s almost certainly not going to stop them from trying though.
The current administration did on several levels over years.
originally posted by: WeMustCare
a reply to: Lumenari
Allowing "free speech" is good and appropriate. What if 90% of that "free speech" emanates from outlets who don't like you?
originally posted by: Freeborn
a reply to: WeMustCare
Are you suggesting that the government should control the narrative broadcast by MSM?
originally posted by: JadedGhost
originally posted by: Lumenari
a reply to: WeMustCare
The upcoming administration certainly should not inhibit free speech in any way, shape or form.
They certainly shouldn’t. It’s almost certainly not going to stop them from trying though.
originally posted by: JadedGhost
originally posted by: Lumenari
a reply to: WeMustCare
The upcoming administration certainly should not inhibit free speech in any way, shape or form.
They certainly shouldn’t. It’s almost certainly not going to stop them from trying though.
originally posted by: JadedGhost
originally posted by: Lumenari
originally posted by: JadedGhost
originally posted by: Lumenari
a reply to: WeMustCare
The upcoming administration certainly should not inhibit free speech in any way, shape or form.
They certainly shouldn’t. It’s almost certainly not going to stop them from trying though.
The current administration did on several levels over years.
Care to link to that claim?
I know they requested twitter voluntarily shut down extreme right-wing speech at one point. But twitter (x or whatever) is owned by MAGA now, so that kind of backfired.
Traditional MSM is all but dead at this point anyway, it’s basically irrelevant. Social media is where people are getting there information from these days and the right have been far quicker to catch on to that fact than the left.
originally posted by: WeMustCare
a reply to: Lumenari
Allowing "free speech" is good and appropriate. What if 90% of that "free speech" emanates from outlets who don't like you?
originally posted by: JadedGhost
originally posted by: Lumenari
originally posted by: JadedGhost
originally posted by: Lumenari
a reply to: WeMustCare
The upcoming administration certainly should not inhibit free speech in any way, shape or form.
They certainly shouldn’t. It’s almost certainly not going to stop them from trying though.
The current administration did on several levels over years.
Care to link to that claim?
I know they requested twitter voluntarily shut down extreme right-wing speech at one point. But twitter (x or whatever) is owned by MAGA now, so that kind of backfired.
Traditional MSM is all but dead at this point anyway, it’s basically irrelevant. Social media is where people are getting there information from these days and the right have been far quicker to catch on to that fact than the left.
. . . This term, the Supreme Court has an opportunity to bring clarity to this state of affairs and defend free speech when it hears Murthy v. Missouri. The plaintiffs in Murthy allege that attempts by the Biden administration to pressure social media companies to remove speech, often under the guise of stopping “misinformation,” violate the First Amendment.
The lower courts, which ruled against the Biden administration, found these efforts covered such topics as the origins of the Covid-19 virus, the wisdom of climate change policy, and even jokes about Jill Biden.
For cases involving lawful speech—especially speech about public policy, government officials, and other matters of public concern—courts should abandon this focus on policing the line between “persuasion” and “coercion.” A request from a government official is inherently intimidating, particularly to any regulated industry or taxpaying individual.
originally posted by: WeMustCare
originally posted by: Freeborn
a reply to: WeMustCare
Are you suggesting that the government should control the narrative broadcast by MSM?
As long as (due to owners being anti-Trump) 90% of the U.S. news media is against what the majority of Americans voted for last week, the incoming administration should encourage them to stop making most of their news about Trump/MAGA/Republicans NEGATIVE, and STOP avoiding publishing good news from Trump/Republicans/MAGA.
As long as Americans are given what we want from the big news outlets, we're satisfied.
Call that whatever you want to call it, Freeborn.
originally posted by: TzarChasm
a reply to: WeMustCare
Media is this close 🤏 to being the fourth branch of government and that relationship must be divorced for optimal journalist integrity. Appointing a "czar" to coordinate policy implies the censorship department is under new management as opposed to being removed.