News media should not tolerate Trump’s jabs

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President Trump is the very reason for the First Amendment. Have no doubt, the man is dangerously inept in many ways, but his personal, daily attacks on the free press are gross incompetence for someone who has sworn by oath to protect the Constitution.

Chas Holman

Yes, a free press is preferable. But a dishonest, biased and Democratic Party news media are not desirable. The country’s Founders never envisioned a news media that could become so corrupted.

Barry Van Trees

Millions of Americans fought — and thousands died over the past 200 years — to defend freedom of the press, but it took Trump only four weeks to take the dark path toward fascism by calling the press “the enemy of the American people.” When, in fact, the press is only the enemy of the paranoia, the mis informantion and the intentional lies that are spewing from Trump himself.

Gary Douglas

When the press endorses a candidate and then slants its news stories in favor of that candidate, that is not providing the facts to the public; it’s controlling the mind of the public. That is wrong and not what the freedom of press intended. To report the news, the press should be required to report all facts and let the public make up its own mind, instead of trying to shape our thoughts. Couple that with the reporters’ rush to be the first one to get the story and you get inaccurate facts.

Scott Simpson