Sunday, journalist Jonathan Karl guest-hosted ABC’s This Week. As the program came to a close, he offered some thoughts regarding President Donald Trump’s claim that the media is the “enemy of the American people.”
There’s been no shortage of outrage over the president’s statements on the press, but I’d like to close with a little perspective. There is nothing new about a President of the United States criticizing or even vilifying the press. Even Thomas Jefferson–the same Thomas Jefferson [who] wrote the Declaration of Independence, and ten years after that, wrote: “Our liberty depends on freedom of the press”–Even Thomas Jefferson, when he was a few years into his own presidency, was so upset with what was being written about his administration, that he flatly declared: “Nothing can now be believed that is seen in a newspaper.”
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