This has been a busy week for news agencies. There are a couple of things that occurred throughout the week that I would like to discuss. The first being the recent fake terrorist attacks that President Trump and his administration continue to produce. I don’t even know how to react, I am seriously starting to question exactly how much research and thought is put into our president's speeches. Having something like this happen once should be an embarrassment, allowing it to happen three times makes this administration look like a circus. At first it was the bowling green massacre, followed by the alleged terrorist attacks in Atlanta, and now the Sweden terrorist attack. This is simply unacceptable and needs to be addressed. For those who don’t realize, these comments were made to make a point. Lying and making up fake attacks to push your narrative can spiral out of control very quickly. Going around criticizing the media on fake news, and then spilling an unprecedented amount to the public is hypocritical. As if this wasn’t ridiculous enough, his explanation on how this misinformation came to be was even more embarrassing. You would think that the president of the United States would be the last person on earth to require an intelligence briefing from FOX news. However it seems this is his primary source for information. He admitted that he got his information from a story that was developing on FOX news. Furthermore, the piece he was referring to was not even talking about terrorist attacks, it was a piece on Sweden refuges and an increase of the rape rates. The next story I want to discuss are the recent media band from the whitehouse. It appears that in the latest press briefing, a couple of news organizations were barred from entering. These include CNN, BBC, The New York Times, and The LA Times. I believe this is a serious blow to our democracy and a huge concern when it comes to the freedom of the press. Cherry picking which news outlets can cover the white house press briefings is a major step in the wrong direction. Furthermore, how can you ban the BBC, and still allow news outlets like Breitbart to attend? This is the news site that came up with the story of there being a supposed couple of million illegal voters in the U.S.. My point is, if you’re trying to ban the news outlets which you consider “fake news” you should at least ban both the left and right leaning ones.
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Benito Sanchez
2/25/2017 05:31:19 pm
Hello Jose,
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