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President Trump’s disdain for the media and its information could shape attitudes across the country—how electorates evaluate claims during campaign cycles, how students are taught in school to ferret out facts, and how political and corporate officials deal with the media and the public.
Just this past month, we’ve seen an alarming number of attacks on journalists—from a Republican candidate for Congress physically assaulting a reporter, to a State Department official threatening a CNN reporter about who her sources were.
The watchdog role of the media, an informed citizenry, and the vigilance of public discourse in exposing lies and wrongdoing have separated the United States from kleptocracies, oligarchies, and cronyist regimes all over the world. Those precepts may now be in jeopardy.
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Paul Hogarth, Daily Kos