The one group that most benefits from a free, independent press is us - the working class.
Yet Donald Trump,who presented himself as a champion of workers, today issued a not-very-thinly-veiled threat against those who provide us with critical information. He suggested that licenses of entities like NBC should be challenged.
Bodhi agrees completely with Chris Cillizza of CNN.com, author of the piece just cited, when he says This
is, simply put, the stuff of authoritarian governments. Democracy is
built on the free and independent press. If a president or any
leader seizes the ability to control the news media, democracy dies.
Our best protection is to be correctly, fully, and regularly informed. So I'll let my inner lecturer take over; read Cillizza's full piece.
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