Senate Unanimously Passes Resolution Condemning Media Attacks: 'The Press is Not the Enemy...

[DonViejo]

Source: Mediate



Senate Unanimously Passes Resolution Condemning Media Attacks: ‘The Press is Not the Enemy of the People’

by Joe DePaolo | Aug 16th, 2018, 1:51 pm

On a day when hundreds of newspapers around the country have published editorials in defense of the press against attacks from President Donald Trump, the Senate offered a mild — though unanimous — show of support for the Fourth Estate.

The Senate, by unanimous voice vote, passed a non-binding resolution which “affirms the press is not the enemy of the people.

Link to tweet

Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI) introduced the resolution on the Senate floor

“We can’t let statements by the president declaring that the press is the enemy of the people go unchallenged,” Schatz said.

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/online/senate-unanimously-passes-resolution-condemning-media-attacks-the-press-is-not-the-enemy-of-the-people/

[DBoon]

1. Will Trump now try to get the entire senate arrested?

nt

[hedda_foil]

12. Never forget the Reichstag Fire.

[Iliyah]

2. t-rump thinks he's gawd sent and is above any man's rules,

regulations and those stinky laws.

[Va Lefty]

3. The fact that The U. S. Senate felt the need to pass this is beyond depressing

"non-binding resolution" passed on a voice vote.

[TheCowsCameHome]

4. Empty words from the GOP side.

Not worth the paper it was printed on.

[CentralMass]

5. Faux Noise should not be covered by this.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Trump says WaPo should not be covered by this.

Don't you see the mirror image fallacy you have made?

[CentralMass]

13. Trump is an asshole and Fox is a dangerous purveyor of propaganda .

They us tactics like reporting on disgraced GOP politicians and they put up their name a tg the bottom of the screen with a D next to it.

They lie constantly.

All Pants on Fire! statements involving FOX

https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/tv/fox/pants-fire/

50 more lies.
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2015/feb/26/fact-checks-behind-daily-shows-50-fox-news-lies/

Former Fox News Analyst Calls Network a 'Destructive Propaganda Machine ...
The New York Times › business › media

[Bernardo de La Paz]

14. Freedom of speech protects speech that YOU do not like.

Similarly it protects speech that tRump does not like.

No person, not even you, gets to decide what speech is allowed.

The antidote to lies is the truth. If you try to create a government body to adjudicate falsehoods in the name of free speech then it would at some point turn into Big Brother and his MiniTruth (Ministry of Truth) from 1984.

People who are lied to need to be made to feel like suckers until they stop inhaling the lies.

[Tursiops]

15. Fox is officially/legally an Entertainment Channel nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

16. Nonsense. Doesn't matter. It's not a "channel", first & it is legally same as ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC,

It is a broadcaster and a network, as are the others, even if it does stylize itself as "Fox News Channel". They have multiple channels.

A company gets no legal benefits or obligations by calling itself "entertainment" or "news". Fox News is part of Fox Entertainment which is part of 21st Century Fox. Similarly ABC News is part of the American Broadcasting Company which is part of Disney.

Accreditation of reporters is a separate issue handled differently by various venues.

[duforsure]

6. Zero from the KGOP

Stopping him from hurting OUR country, and destroying Democracy. Frauds that got caught up with putin?

[PSPS]

7. Easy to vote on meaningless legislation. Let me know when you actually do something.

[BumRushDaShow]

11. There isn't even a vote for something like this

With the "unanimous consent" request, as long as no one objects, then it passes automatically. So many things have been passed by that method over the years.

[George II]

9. Is he going to be able to get 100 tweets out tomorrow morning?

[BumRushDaShow]

10. From what I understand, the Senate is not really in session

and are graveling in every 3 days (to halt any recess appointments). So I suppose it was good that no (Russian) flag-waving, Constitution having (for shredding) GOP numbskull didn't show up to object to the unanimous consent request.

[Maxheader]

17. Within dementia boys brain..

its pleasure centers are stimulated by this act...like
the child whining to it parents...cheetoz believes it
has the upper hand or there would be no complaints.
imho...