Tag Archives: freedom of the press

CNN hires Sarah Isgur, a Republican operative who once swore loyalty to Donald Trump, to oversee coverage of the 2020 campaign

By Mark | February 19, 2019

Today it was announced that CNN hired Sarah Isgur, a Republican operative with absolutely no journalistic experience, to serve as political editor in charge of the network’s 2020 election coverage. If Isgur’s name sounds familiar, it might be from the Washington Post story in March of 2018 about how, only after she “kowtowed to Trump,” […]

Posted in Media, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2020, authoritarianism, Clinton News Network, CNN, Corey Lewandowski, Department of Justice, Donald Trump, enemy of the people, Jeff Sessions, Jeffrey Lord, loyalty, Media Matters, Michael Caputo, Mitt Romney, Sarah Isgur, slippery slope, Ted Cruz, the sad state of journalism, Vladimir Putin | 42 Comments

Putin, Trump, and the killing of journalists

By Mark | February 17, 2019

This morning, the President of the United States took to Twitter to say that the investigation against him and his associates — the investigation that has already yielded multiple convictions and guilty pleas — is “illegal and rigged”. He then went on to add — quoting Rush Limbaugh — that those investigating him “ought to […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged authoritarianism, call to violence, Capital Gazette, Donald Trump, El Paso, enemy of the people, fascism, First Amendment, future of journalism, Garry Kasparov, gun control, journalism, Limbaugh, Lügenpresse, lying press, mass shootings, Milo Yiannopoulos, Nazi, NRA, political violence, potential for violence, retribution, rule of law, Russia, Saturday Night Live, threats to Democracy, threats to journalists, Vladimir Putin | 45 Comments

Saying, “It is what it is,” Donald Trump announces that we will be giving the Saudis a pass on the cold-blooded murder of Jamal Khashoggi, an American resident and Washington Post reporter

By Mark | November 20, 2018

Today, Donald Trump issued an extremely unusual official statement from the White House on the October 2 murder in Istanbul of United States resident Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist. After declaring the world to be “a very dangerous place,” the President, in his statement, made the case as to why, in his opinion, even […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Alternative Energy, arms dealing, assassination, Bob Corker, bone saws, cheap oil, CIA, demonizing, dismemberment, Donald Trup, Enemy of the State, First Amendment, foreign relations, fuel efficiency, getting away with murder, global climate change, Hillary Clinton, Jamal Khashoggi, James Comey, Khalid bin Salman, Mar-a-Lago, Middle East, Mohammed bin Salman, murder, Muslim Brotherhood, oil, Saudi Arabia, the price of gas, threats to journalists | 45 Comments

White House spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders refuses to say the press is not “the enemy of the people”

By Mark | August 2, 2018

today concedes that his son met with Russian operatives at trump tower with Russian operatives to get dirt on his opponent. Ben Rhodes ‏ Verified account @brhodes 3h3 hours ago More Ben Rhodes Retweeted Donald J. Trump I worked on the Obama campaign and we would never, ever, have held a meeting with a foreign […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Capital Gazette, CNN, David Simon, Donald Trump, enemy of the people, fake news, First Amendment, Hitler, incitement to violence, Jim Acosta, journalism, Lügenpresse, lying press, Michelle Wolf, Q Fever, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, smokey eye, the sad state of journalism | 28 Comments

How does one celebrate Independence Day in a country where our President has declared all out war on the free and independent press?

By Mark | July 2, 2017

Well, it’s been about three months since Alex Morris’s “Why Trump Is Not Mentally Fit to Be President” ran in Rolling Stone, and I think you’d be hard pressed to find a mental health professional to say that our President, in that time, has shown any signs of improvement. In fact, it would appear that, […]