Gun Control Reform Activism

ehrnst

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12. So again... how do you go about criminalizing journalists for reporting on an event

Wed Dec 25, 2019, 09:23 PM

Dec 2019

without becoming what Trump is, and violating the First Amendment, and therefore overrulling the Constitution?

That's what dictators do.

The First Amendment doesn't make exceptions for journalists who report on events you don't want them to, nor does it criminalize ownership of a news entity by a for-profit entity, no matter how large.

This is what the FoxNews viewership wants for the rest of the media that reports on events and revelations about Trump that enrage them. They see THAT as evidence that the media is "corrupt," and "un-Christian" and "Evil"

Are you sure that you want be banging that drum along with them?

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