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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (197510)	3/31/2021 12:08:52 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 356628

>> And the big guys are public figures so the measure of defamation is different, difficult to overcome. Of course, I'm referring to Trump, or the next Trump, whoever it may be. This is not complicated. Trump was defamed, but had no standing because he was a public figure. But my point is that there comes a time that the public figure exception is abused so heavily, as it has been for the last four years, that the media must be curtailed from those abuses, at least for a time. I simply that abusers like CNN and MSNBC and the two big papers (particularly, NYT) should be put on a kind of probation during which they cannot so easily hide from charges claiming someone is a public figure. Their abuses have been so outrageous that the damage done (in this case, contributing to a coup resulting from having mislead the public) outweighs the necessity of absolute freedom as a punishment. Perhaps, if they behave, they can get it back after five or ten years. As a long-time supporter of absolute freedom in the media, it is to me a difficult remedy, but look what we have today as a result of these actions: We have a fool who has imprisoned thousands of children on the border and will have blown $10 Trillion that we cannot even afford the interest on. I think it is worthy of consideration, although I know neither party would dare: Dems because they own the news media, and Republicans because they believe in an absolutely free media even if has been corrupted by partisanship from within.