{"id":27266,"date":"2017-02-19T17:37:42","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T22:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huntsville.dopperonline.ca\/?p=27266"},"modified":"2017-02-19T20:10:42","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T01:10:42","slug":"listen-up-in-between-elections-a-free-press-is-all-weve-got","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/listen-up-in-between-elections-a-free-press-is-all-weve-got\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen Up! In between elections a free press is all we&#8217;ve got &#8211; Opinion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5890\" style=\"width: 184px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5890\" class=\" wp-image-5890\" src=\"https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2015\/10\/HM-0020-2-Profile-picture-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"174\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2015\/10\/HM-0020-2-Profile-picture-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2015\/10\/HM-0020-2-Profile-picture.jpg 321w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 174px) 100vw, 174px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5890\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hugh Mackenzie<br \/>Huntsville Doppler<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>The Media and the Message<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Just how important to a democratic society is freedom of the press and what does that really mean anyway? Like him or hate him, President Donald Trump has kicked off this debate and it has captured the attention of people around the world. He has accused the media of &#8220;fake news\u201d and called them \u201cthe enemy of the American people\u201d. Equally alarming is the warning from Reince Priebus, the White House Chief of Staff, that \u201cTrump should be taken seriously, when he calls the press the enemy\u201d. What the hell does that mean? It sure sounds like a threat to me.<\/p>\n<p>In Europe this week, Republican Senator John McCain, who is known to stray beyond party lines, was clearly worried about presidential attacks on the media. \u201cShutting down the press is how dictators get started,\u201d he said. He also said that \u201cthe suppression of an adversarial press can lead to a dictatorial regime.\u201d Strong words indeed.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 14px;\"><strong><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45658\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone><\/strong><\/div>\n<p>What is the responsibility of the media when the fake news comes from the other side? Just yesterday, the President, addressing a political rally in Florida and defending his immigration policies, referred to a recent terrorist attack in Sweden to make his point. Only problem is, there wasn\u2019t an attack in Sweden. Fake news? You betcha. One also has to ask if Kelly Anne Conway, the White House Pitbull-in-Chief, has also assumed the role of Propaganda Minister. The president of her alma mater hit the nail on the head when he said she is \u201cfacilitating the manipulation of facts\u201d. And wasn\u2019t she the one who coined the phrase \u201calternative facts&#8221;? If that is not propaganda, what is?<\/p>\n<p>If the media is not going to fact check politicians and hold them accountable for what they say and do, who is? Can we stand by, in any country, and allow a political leader to effectively say that anyone who challenges him (or her) is an enemy of the state? If a leader gets away with it in one jurisdiction, is it a slippery slope for the others?<\/p>\n<p>Now the news media is not lily white in all of this. In Canada, the Toronto Star practically chokes when it is compelled to say something nice about the Conservatives. The same goes for the Sun newspapers when it comes to the Liberals. And it was quite sickening to see so-called non-partisan journalists such as CBC\u2019s Peter Mansbridge and CTV\u2019s Craig Oliver salivate over Justin Trudeau\u2019s victory last year. Gone, it seems, are the days when news belonged on the news pages or in news broadcasts and opinion belonged in the editorial or commentary sections. The same can be said of course for the American media, especially cable networks, where their political persuasions are less than subtle.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump has also accused the media of being the opposition. I am not at all sure that is a bad thing. Voters can only hold governments accountable every four years or so and memories are short and easily influenced. As Trump himself has said, tell the same lie three times and people will believe it. Journalists are hard at work every day. As flawed as it may be, we have no better system than the media to hold politicians accountable on a day-to-day basis in a democratic society. To me, fact checking and holding their feet to the fire is a sacred mission.<\/p>\n<p>Many will argue, with some legitimacy, that it is as important to make the media accountable as it is politicians. The problem is how to do that without oversight and how do you have oversight without censorship and once you have censorship you no longer have a free press. Someone controls it.<\/p>\n<p>On balance, an open and free press trumps (pun intended) whatever flaws may exist in the fifth estate. To quote Senator McCain again, \u201cWhen you look at history, the first thing dictators do is shut down the press.\u201d In my view the second thing they do is appoint a Propaganda Minister.<\/p>\n<p>In the United States, many people held their noses and voted for Donald Trump because they believed that the end justified the means. Fair enough, but where does that stop? Does it stop at calling the media an enemy of the state? Are we in danger of going beyond populism to fascism? Is attacking and suppressing a free press, as some suggest, the first step? Where do we draw the line? It is not just about America. This stuff spreads like measles. It is about where we are as a Western society. If that is not an important discussion to have, I am at a loss to know what is.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Don\u2019t miss out on Doppler! Sign up for our free, twice-weekly newsletter <a href=\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/dont-miss-out-on-doppler\/\"><u>here<\/u><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45657\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Media and the Message Just how important to a democratic society is freedom of the press and what does that really mean anyway? 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