Will Trump destruct the media? Let's be positive

The last president to mess with the media was Richard Nixon. It should be a memento for Trump: the memory that no president has won with the press in the United States, and the government of losers is long. But has the political and media climate in the US surely not changed and will the United States stay a democratic country under Trump?

Trump is warned by organizations specified as Reporters Without Borders, the Freedom of the Press Foundation, and the Committee for the Protection of Journalists (CPJ). The first stated that "His choice for the second word marks a dangerous minute for American journalism and global freedom of the press." Evidence of interference with Trump's press work is more than enough. He denied the right to participate and to ask questions during his press conferences, among others, to journalists CNN, Politico and CBS, a rabble reporter, called journalists fake news, he withdrew accreditations, threatened lawsuits and licenses to tv stations that did not favour him (e.g. CBS News station after interviewing Kamala Harris on the program 60 Minutes), and more late under his influence the editorial of major newspapers (Los Angeles Times and Washington Post) changed the policy of expressing opinions about candidates in the presidential election for years, so as not to annoy Trump with their support for Kamala Harris (the editorial board was not afraid New York Timeswho declared support for the Democratic candidate). Trump was besides greatly helped by propaganda on the X platform, owned by his friend, and now most likely future associate of his cabinet – multibillioner Elon Musk.

By Washington Post Trump lied over 30,000 times during his tenure. In little than 2 months (from 1 September to the end of October) he insulted journalists – according to Reporters without Borders – at least 108 times, but for entries on social media. He and his co-workers have repeatedly directed defamation lawsuits against journalists. Trump besides announced the pursuit of journalists who "help Joe Biden fake the presidential election". present he is the president of the most powerful country in the world. After these elections, he will have the support of the Senate, the home of Representatives, legislation, the Justice Department – and almost dictatorial power.

Commentators fear Trump's revenge on the media. But let's be positive, due to the fact that the tradition of the American press from Benjamin Harris, the first investigative writer (1690), through the alleged era. muckrakers after Watergate's scandal and her extended legacy in Bob Woodward's books shows that ethos watchdog, the rebellion and the sight of power on his hands survived for over 330 years and no president was able to destruct it. In 1971, erstwhile newspapers New York Times and Washington Post were attacked by the Nixon administration due to the publication of the so-called. Pentagon Papers (secret papers on American politics), it was the solidarity given to them by the media in general in the US that the press won the conflict against censorship in the name of the right to freedom of publication. The first amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which does not let any restrictions on media freedom, is sacred in America and so far no 1 has desecrated it. Trump needs to know that the assassination of the I Amendment could mean the end of his political career.