Reply To: Mainstream Media = The Enemy Of The People

@jackk,
I just don’t see how spreading blood libels (even for only a few hours) come remotely close to spreading election lies. I fail to understand how you minimize its repercussions at this time. (My apology if I seem to be repetitive but I just don’t get you “mach it avek” as if its no big deal)

To address you or osmic of the other commnetors pointers, yes I get you Trump didn’t make up the term and its used by many dictators. But that doesn’t make it untrue. Not everything they said was a total lie. So you ask but what about demcoracy which i think we all agree is a good thing? We need freedom of the press. The answer is not all democratic western countries offer the freedoms that the USA offers. There needs to be some limits too. Just like you understand society needs police even in a democratic society. When it comes to national secuirty or broad statements that put sects of people at risk and result in embassies burned down, the media needs to be held accountable. The govt at times needs to silence them and citizens should be able to sue easier when its so libelous just like was done to Fox. Democracy still needs governance and the media is just out of control.

I still contend that spreading a false blood libel makes you my enemy.