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Lou's avatar

Hey listen, he had me at ultraviolet light inside the body. It just keeps getting worse day after day and if you think it can't get worse, ask yourself during the past 3 and a half years when did it not get worse? This mentally ill president still holds the nuclear codes. He still has the ability to cause even more damage to this country than he already has. The press is aiding and abetting the destruction of our democracy for fear of losing access. Do journalists understand that once we descend all the way to authoritarianism, if we're not there already, that they will not even have a job. Or if they do they may be forced to simply report on this year's grain harvest like the press used to do in the Soviet Union. Are they okay with that? Will they be okay with journalists being locked up or perhaps worse? This maniac in the White House never forgets his enemies. You would think for self preservation interests alone, the mainstream media would be speaking truth to power but yet, it's mostly crickets.

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I agree regarding the reticence of the press to address Trump's obvious mental issues. My question is, why? I don't mean the boilerplate answer that sounds as if it's coming out of a journalism textbook - I mean the real, honest-to-goodness answer.

What's always missing from these stories about the press not doing something are quotes from the press themselves - reporters, editors, publishers, sales managers. I want to hear the real answers from the people who make the decisions about what I read. If they don't want to expose themselves, can we at least have anonymous quotes from the decision makers in the press? I'm actually curious and want to know the truth about why Trump has been allowed to skate by for his entire career.

On a personal note, I understand that members of the press are off-the-recording each other while having a cocktail or ten. However, the need for the public to know the truth, for history to record the truth, is more important than some chummy confidentiality between two newspaper pals. I want to know the reason, dammit. Period.

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