Climate Crisis
#8 – Attacks on the Press Injure U.S. Democracy
Every time Trump attacks our free press, he draws blood from our democracy. Biden will begin to heal the wounds.
Every time Trump attacks our free press, he draws blood from our democracy. Biden will begin to heal the wounds.
No “imminent danger” or emergency declaration necessary.
It’s time for the North Dakota news media to come up with a different secondary identifier for the man who is a representative in the North Dakota House and a fine public servant. Period.
Trump’s made a habit of banning from his events any news outlet whose reporters that have said or written things he finds troubling.
Look at it. The front page of your daily newspaper, down at the bottom. Winking at you!
Every morning when I open my copy of the local newspaper, The Forum, I can’t help but think of Jackie O’Shea’s line from “Waking Ned Devine.” Because at the bottom right of page one, Monday-Saturday, there it is just winking at me – a print ad. It’s no winning lotto number, to be sure, but in the end Jackie and I are referring to the same thing: fortune.
Many an old codger has been heard of an afternoon here in North Dakota praising the extreme weather.
“Keeps the riffraff out,” says Old Boy, motioning out the window of the local cafe over a cup of scalding black coffee.