Just when I thought it was safe to enjoy some time with my cat videos and drown out the cruelty and chaos of the president’s actions, he announces he’s going to ban several media outlets he doesn’t like from the White House.
It’s not enough that he has already banished many hard-working and diligent reporters from the Pentagon. And it’s not enough that he demeans and insults reporters just because he doesn’t like their probing questions. But the fact that he took an oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution when he was sworn into office, and chooses to ignore and defy that oath, says it all! Not only about the kind of man he is. Not only about the kind of president he is. But how little he thinks of the free press and its protection from government interference.
I was recently reminded by one of those media outlets that the president “doesn’t like,” of something Thomas Jefferson famously said. He stated that a free press is essential to safeguarding liberty and that it is better to have “newspapers without a government than a government without newspapers.”
Certainly we can all agree with the wisdom of one of America’s Founding Fathers.
Nancy Ann Roblez, Murray