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Contradicting Trump on Russia

artappraiser — Tue, 21 Feb 2017 06:07:44 +0000

In reply to Epic fail:

Contradicting Trump on Russia: Russian Officials NYTimes, Feb. 20, 2017

In Trump Era, Censorship May

artappraiser — Sun, 19 Feb 2017 01:50:33 +0000

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In Trump Era, Censorship May Start in the Newsroom

Jim Rutenberg , MEDIATOR New York Times, Feb.. 17, 2017

This is how the muzzling starts: not with a boot on your neck, but with the fear of one that runs so deep that you muzzle yourself.

Maybe it’s the story you decide against doing because it’s liable to provoke a press-bullying president to put the power of his office behind his attempt to destroy your reputation by falsely calling your journalism “fake.”

Maybe it’s the line you hold back from your script or your article because it could trigger a federal leak investigation into you and your sources (so, yeah, jail).

Or, maybe it’s the commentary you spike because you’re a publicly supported news channel and you worry it will cost your station its federal financing.

In that last case, your fear would be existential — a matter of your very survival — and your motivation to self-censor could prove overwhelming.

We no longer have to imagine it. We got a real-life example last week in San Antonio, where a PBS station sat atop the slippery slope toward censorship and then promptly started down it.

It’s a single television station in a single state in a very big country. And the right thing ultimately happened. But only after a very wrong thing happened [.....]

#NotTheEnemy

artappraiser — Sun, 19 Feb 2017 01:34:27 +0000

In reply to President Trump, White House Apprentice

#NotTheEnemy (warning: has a lot of pro-Trump & anti-media posts)

and

‘That’s how dictators get started’: McCain criticizes Trump for calling media ‘the enemy’

Washington Post, Feb. 18

No, a combo of bathtub meth &

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 18 Feb 2017 12:37:16 +0000

In reply to Epic fail:

No, a combo of bathtub meth & cheap inhalants, perhaps mixed with some bargain WalMart-grade vodka and a dilaudid/percodan drip. But maybe that's why Trump appeals to both Russia and Middle America. He feels their painlessness.

Epic fail:

artappraiser — Sat, 18 Feb 2017 09:15:57 +0000

In reply to President Trump, White House Apprentice

Epic/tragic/comic fail:

Russian tabloid: You need to be drunk to understand Trump

By Brooke Seipe @ The Hilll - 02/17/17 10:17 PM EST

[....] The article comes a day after reports that Moscow is instructing Russian state media to reduce their favorable coverage of President Trump [....]