Denigrating the press is a time-honoured tactic of demagogues, despots and dictators.
How soon we forget, or choose to overlook.
AP FACT CHECK: Obama doesn’t always tell the straight story"Trump may use extraordinary rhetoric to undermine trust in the press, but Obama arguably went farther — using extraordinary actions to block the flow of information to the public.
The Obama administration used the 1917 Espionage Act with
unprecedented vigor, prosecuting more people under that law for leaking sensitive information to the public than all previous administrations combined."
Trump may denigrate the press, but Obama actually persecuted them. I ask you, which is more reminiscent of a dictatorship? One of my biggest gripe with Obama is that fact that he constantly campaigned on having an open administration, the most open actually, but refused to pardon Snowden.
Add to that, recently Bloomberg News stated that they would not investigate Bloomberg or any Democrat, but will continue to investigate Trump. This, in flashing red lights, not only shows their bias but signals they have abandoned all journalistic ethics, and it is not like Bloomberg News is some minor company. This received wide spread criticism from most press outlets, including former editors of Bloomberg News, except for our grey lady & paper of record. Instead the New York Times criticized Trump for banning Bloomberg reporters from events (perhaps an overreach, but with such blatant bias and abandonment of ethics, perhaps justified) and implied a support of Bloomberg News. I never thought I would loose complete confidence in the NYTs.