MSNBC: Maine Governor Paul LePage replied in the Waterville Morning Sentinel in response to a student question about his fears;
“My greatest fear in the state of Maine: newspapers,” he said to the school children. “I’m not a fan of newspapers.” He accused newspapers of lacking objectivity. “If they were fair and balanced, I would be a supporter.” According to the Sentinel report LePage said he doesn't have the same problems with TV and radio “because they don’t ‘spin’ the news.”
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Tuesday, February 5, 2013
"The Press" next on the list of Republican Fears!!!
The Constitutional guarantee preventing the federal government from ever abridging the press is apparently on it way out under Republican rule. If a person had any sense of the First Amendment at all, they would have never said what Maine's governor said the other day:
The lie of "fair and balanced" is that the truth no longer matters. We are stuck in a dysfunctional 2-party system and the media presents false dichotomies -- regardless of reason or truth, the only thing that matters is blandly presenting what repugs and dems have to say.
ReplyDeleteFact checking is not allowed and, if one does not regurgitate talking points provided by republicans, then you are "biased".
We were all taught the lie of objective journalism in school, so thank a teacher and our dysfunctinal public schools.