Presidents tend to treat the news media warily, sometimes even with outright hostility. But there’s something different about the way President-elect Donald Trump deals with the press. As Trevor Thrall explains in a new column for Reason, “the deeper danger is that Trump’s war will undermine the media as an effective forum for debate and deliberation.”
Thrall adds:
By avoiding engagement with journalists and by stifling media critics through public shaming and other strong-arm tactics, Trump will weaken the ability of the press to play the role of watchdog and critic envisioned by the Founders and embodied in the First Amendment. By attacking the media’s objectivity and credibility, the Trump administration will weaken what’s left of public confidence in the public sphere and, by extension, in the entire project of democratic self-governance.
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