According to news reports on Sunday, July 15, our president, Donald Trump, has once again attacked our journalists and our news media and called them “the enemy of the people.” If it were not for my tendency to actually read the news from many sources and fact check information that I receive along with my fellow Americans on a daily basis, perhaps I could believe the words of our president. But truth be told, there are so many ways to accurately check facts in our world which show so much actual evidence of President Donald Trump’s continuing to voice false and inaccurate information in an effort to cloud the reality about us, that I am unable to conclude anything other than our president is a disgrace to our nation.
To all of us in American, we need to understand that the questions surrounding our current president have nothing to do with the political and social differences that exist among our fellow citizens. Rather, it has to do with whether or not we have a president who has chosen to disregard the ethical and moral boundaries of his position.
One of my country’s major strengths, freedom of the press, is found in the First Amendment of our United States Constitution. Said Amendment reads as follows: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
Our current president has knowingly been attempting to destroy our press in public through his constant tweeting and voiced statements essentially claiming that fake news is all that we are getting from our journalists and news media. I will never deny that on occasion, we have experienced inappropriate reporting by individual members of our press corps, but our history has shown us that our American press has been a positive influence on the survival of our current democracy through their mostly honest reporting, and it is up to “We The People” to defend all that makes us great including freedom of speech, freedom of religion and freedom of the press.
To all of us in American, we need to understand that the questions surrounding our current president have nothing to do with the political and social differences that exist among our fellow citizens. Rather, it has to do with whether or not we have a president who has chosen to disregard the ethical and moral boundaries of his position.
One of my country’s major strengths, freedom of the press, is found in the First Amendment of our United States Constitution. Said Amendment reads as follows: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
Our current president has knowingly been attempting to destroy our press in public through his constant tweeting and voiced statements essentially claiming that fake news is all that we are getting from our journalists and news media. I will never deny that on occasion, we have experienced inappropriate reporting by individual members of our press corps, but our history has shown us that our American press has been a positive influence on the survival of our current democracy through their mostly honest reporting, and it is up to “We The People” to defend all that makes us great including freedom of speech, freedom of religion and freedom of the press.
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