Donald Trump’s second term promises to deliver historic threats to US press freedom – directly from the Oval Office.
The president-elect made it clear during the campaign that he had the press in his sights. He told a rally on the eve of the election that he “wouldn’t mind” if an assassin shot the journalists standing in front of him.
Ahead of the election, he also signalled his desire to jail journalists, hunt down their confidential sources, cancel the broadcast licences of major networks and criminalise work to counter disinformation.
I’m anticipating that we’re going to have to donate a lot of money to the NPRs and Media Matters of the world.
I don’t understand. He already won. The press loves him because he’s a bad-news buffet. Harris and Biden are boring. They don’t pump up the ratings. Trump does. So the press does, and always will, suck his little mushroom dick for more sound bites.
I was listening to a TEDTalk about incompetent management and why it is celebrated: https://youtu.be/DU06c7f9fzc.
The TLDR is that people love a story and entranced by them, however good management and leadership is and probably should be boring.
He should call it the war on billionaires…now media
Look for Trump to attack public media and NGO media watchdogs.
They’ve already said that they want to defund NPR / PBS, and Musk is suing Media Matters.
They’re going after anyone that reports on rightwing disinformation, and the small journalists will have the least resources to fight the battle.
