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Originally Posted by detbuch
Trump said:
"Dec 16, 2018 08:58:54 AM A REAL scandal is the one sided coverage, hour by hour, of networks like NBC & Democrat spin machines like Saturday Night Live. It is all nothing less than unfair news coverage and Dem commercials. Should be tested in courts, can’t be legal? Only defame & belittle! Collusion? "
His tweet didn't claim that any speech should be banned. He claimed that the hour by hour coverage was one sided and unfair defamation belittlement of him, and possibly collusion against him. He asked if the unfair one-sided coverage should be tested in the courts. If it could be legal--in effect does the First Amendment grant the Press the right to slant only in one direction in dereliction of the right granted to it to provide information necessary to maintain a free Republic, and if it should be tested in courts? He is most likely wrong to wonder if the media doesn't have that right (although the way courts "interpret" things one cannot be sure that his question has no merit).
But he made no claim that any speech should be banned. He asked if it was fair or even legal for news coverage to be so biased. The implication being that negative reporting should be balanced with obvious positive things if the Press's right to free speech has any merit.
And the right to speak is not a right that the Press or media has alone. The President, as well as the rest of us, have that right. His right to ask the question should not be "banned," and it certainly doesn't abridge the right of the media to be biased.
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You’re wrong
Rights are rarely lost wholesale but disappear incrementally
Just as people have concerns about the second amendment and incremental loss all rights need to be carefully guarded
Trump is not an ordinary citizen with limited power but the most powerful political person in this country and possibly the world.
He has yet to wield it well.
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