Posted on 08/04/2018 10:04:41 AM PDT by drpix
President Trump's verbal attacks on the media, saying his administration needs to promote a “vibrant” free press and stop going after journalists.
David Kaye, the U.N.’s special rapporteur on freedom of expression, and Edison Lanza, special rapporteur of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, issued a joint statement on Thursday in response to Trump’s repeated attacks on the media.
“His attacks are strategic, designed to undermine confidence in reporting and raise doubts about verifiable facts,” Kaye and Lanza said in the statement.
“These attacks run counter to the country’s obligations to respect press freedom and international human rights law,” the experts added.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Americans also don't need a domestic media - that collaborates with those dictators if they are fellow socialist - to lecture us on our constitution or the "freedom of the press" it guarantees.
AND ABOVE ALL... The FAKE news media should Stop lying about "freedom of the press!"
The Constitution's "freedom of the press" is freedom from control and restrains, but is not freedom from criticism and ridicule by whoever - including Trump & his supporters.
What is “un-American” is a media to demanding people who criticize and ridicule them be silenced, because it has been in Communist & Nazi/Fascist societies where criticism & ridicule of their media is prohibited. Not in America before, now or ever!
Oh, bullcrap! The fact the MSM has no respect is because they deserve no respect. This country's MSM has been shooting itself in the foot for almost 2 decades. They have had an agenda for a long time and everyone who still has a neuron firing knows that. Trump isn't "attacking" anyone, he's simply telling the truth and the MSM doesn't like the truth...especially when it's not their version of the truth.
F the UN
And just how many UN participating countries have a constituted ‘freedom of the press’ ?
I wish more people knew the difference between a “free press” and a propaganda mill.
Sure. Problem with UN “human rights experts” is the UN’s definition of human rights is genocide.
That’s right. The UN puts genocidal maniacs on their human rights committees.
So we can conclude nothing other than the UN sees human rights as the rights of dictators to kill as many people as possible.
Methinks the Trump organization should buy the U.N. building and Turtle Bay and turn it into an amusement park.
5.56mm
Americans don’t need anyone from the UN telling us what we should or should not do.
They would better spend their time cleaning up their own problems that are much more serious, e.g., pedophilia, rape, corruption, genocide.
NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, are NOT the press. They are democrap propagandists.
Trump doesn’t say a peep to the real press that simply reports the facts.
Besides, Trump, and every other American, has the right to ridicule the press in any way we see fit.
Freedom of speech is for EVERYONE.
The United Nations does not have “human rights experts.”
The United Nations does however have the finest “pedophile sex tourism experts” on the planet.
If that Trump amusement park will include 5-star restaurants and hotels, with $1,000/hour hookers, many present tenants will stay on without any change in their daily schedules or expense accounts.
“promote a “vibrant” free press”...
They left out the word “honest” between vibrant and free.
This is unmitigated hogwash.
Rhetorical attacks on the press by a sitting politician violate...nothing.
Nothing.
"At a very early period of my life, I determined never to put a sentence into any newspaper. I have religiously adhered to the resolution through my life, and have great reason to be contented with it. Were I to undertake to answer the calumnies of the newspapers, it would be more than all my own time and that of twenty aids could effect. For while I should be answering one, twenty new ones would be invented. I have thought it better to trust to the justice of my countrymen, that they would judge me by what they see of my conduct on the stage where they have placed me, and what they knew of me before the epoch since which a particular party has supposed it might answer some view of theirs to vilify me in the public eye. Some, I know, will not reflect how apocryphal is the testimony of enemies so palpably betraying the views with which they give it. But this is an injury to which duty requires every one to submit whom the public think proper to call into its councils." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Smith, 1798. ME 10:58"[I have seen] repeated instances of the publication of what has not been intended for the public eye, and the malignity with which political enemies torture every sentence from me into meanings imagined by their own wickedness only... Not fearing these political bull-dogs, I yet avoid putting myself in the way of being baited by them, and do not wish to volunteer away that portion of tranquillity, which a firm execution of my duties will permit me to enjoy." --Thomas Jefferson to John Norvell, 1807. ME 11:226
"Conscious that there was not a truth on earth which I feared should be known, I have lent myself willingly as the subject of a great experiment, which was to prove that an administration, conducting itself with integrity and common understanding, cannot be battered down even by the falsehoods of a licentious press, and consequently still less by the press as restrained within the legal and wholesome limits of truth. This experiment was wanting for the world to demonstrate the falsehood of the pretext that freedom of the press is incompatible with orderly government. I have never, therefore, even contradicted the thousands of calumnies so industriously propagated against myself. But the fact being once established, that the press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood, I leave to others to restore it to its strength by recalling it within the pale of truth. Within that, it is a noble institution, equally the friend of science and of civil liberty." --Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Seymour, 1807. ME 11:155
"My opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted so as to be most useful [is]... 'by restraining it to true facts and sound principle only.' Yet I fear such a paper would find few subscribers. It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood." --Thomas Jefferson to John Norvell, 1807. ME 11:224
"Perhaps an editor might begin a reformation in some such way as this. Divide his paper into four chapters, heading the 1st, Truths. 2nd, Probabilities. 3rd, Possibilities. 4th, Lies. The first chapter would be very short, as it would contain little more than authentic papers and information from such sources as the editor would be willing to risk his own reputation for their truth. The second would contain what, from a mature consideration of all circumstances, his judgment should conclude to be probably true. This, however, should rather contain too little than too much. The third and fourth should be professedly for those readers who would rather have lies for their money than the blank paper they would occupy." --Thomas Jefferson to John Norvell, 1807. ME 11:225
"An editor [should] set his face against the demoralizing practice of feeding the public mind habitually on slander and the depravity of taste which this nauseous aliment induces. Defamation is becoming a necessary of life, insomuch that a dish of tea in the morning or evening cannot be digested without this stimulant. Even those who do not believe these abominations, still read them with complaisance to their auditors, and instead of the abhorrence and indignation which should fill a virtuous mind, betray a secret pleasure in the possibility that some may believe them, though they do not themselves. It seems to escape them, that it is not he who prints, but he who pays for printing a slander, who is its real author." --Thomas Jefferson to John Norvell, 1807. ME 11:225
They almost get it.
The whole point is to abolish destructive norms.
Do we really care what the U.N. has to say, they haven’t been to swift for some time on improving ANYTHING, ANYWHERE!
It figures the UN mouthpiece is from the University of California - where they have free speech and free press codes that mirror those of his comrade dictators at the UN.
Oh it’s from the U.N. so that means we have to believe it. I think not.
The UN’s David Kaye is an American Marxist and graduate of Boalt law school, U. of California, Berkeley.
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