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88 percent of Trump voters: The press is the enemy of the American people



Pro tip: At some point, every president thinks this thought. Bastards. The difference between President Trump and the others is that they don't think it would be wise to say so publicly - either because they think it will cost them politically or because they genuinely don't want to erode the public's trust in the free press. Trump doesn't care, nor should he. When an entire industry uses its megaphone as irresponsibly as this one does, they're doing great harm to the nation. They should be called out. And according to a poll conducted by the Center for Politics, Trump voters didn't vote for him in spite of his belief that the press are "the enemy of the American people." They agree with him:
I don't know if President Trump reads this site, but before he started talking about the press as an enemy of the American people, we were doing it on a fairly regular basis. In 2013, I said it about the New York Times. In 2015, I used the enemy label as the media were whipping people into a frenzy over religious freedom laws. In September 2016, I said it in other words after they intentionally caused race riots via completely false reporting about police-involved shootings. Two days later, I said it again about USA Today writer Bob Nightengale, calling him an enemy of free speech because he tried to ruin the career of a baseball player for expressing an opinion. Yes, it's a tough and very serious charge. But yes, it's an accurate one. Members of the media will no doubt recoil in horror at this suggestion. Oh no, they'll insist. The job they do is one of the most important there is. And that's true, which is precisely why they are enemies of the people. When the thing you do is that important and influences what people understand facts and truth to be, you can do great good but also great ill depending on how you approach the job. When you wield that influence irresponsibly, dishonestly or malevolently, you are an enemy of what's good and right.

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This is the reason the press believes, correctly, that it should hold public officials accountable and call them out when they misuse their positions. It's precisely because they have so much power and influence that there needs to be a check on what they do and how they do it. This is one of the things that makes it true when the press assert their own importance. But at the same time, the press don't seem to think anyone should hold them accountable, nor do they acknowledge that when they do their jobs badly, they can and often do cause serious damage to the country and the people living in it. They do this by obsessing over non-stories like "Russia hacked the election." They do this by obsessing over inconsequential "gaffes" and using them to take people down, while ignoring the malevolence of people like Harry Reid who actually do real harm to the country. They do this by consistently taking sides in partisan and ideological matters instead of just honestly reporting the facts. And they do it by running with information that's unverified and often turns out not to be true, based on tips from anonymous sources who have agendas and axes to grind - often because the reporters in question have the same axes to grind. If 88 percent of Trump voters agree that the media are the enemy of the people, the media probably look at that and shake their heads at how awful Trump voters are. They shouldn't. When that much of the country doesn't trust them and doesn't believe they play it straight or fair, they really ought to step back and look at what they do and how they do it. That's especially true when you consider how much their influence is waning. The media waged all-out war on Donald Trump during the campaign and did everything they could think of to instruct the voters not to elect him under any circumstances. They're always biased against Republican nominees but we've never seen anything like we saw in 2016. And you did notice that up top that we now refer to him as President Trump, yes? Maybe that 88 percent is on to something, media. You love talking about yourselves, but you hate ever having to really change anything, and you never admit you're on the wrong path - even when your business model is failing and your institutions are crumbling. This might be the time to start, while there's anyone out there who still trusts you.

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