Donald Trump’s recent “gag” orders on federal government agencies is right out of a “dictators’ playbook - “create and maintain totalitarian regimes by keeping power through control of mass media.”
A recent article written by former labor secretary, Robert Reich and shared by journalist Bill Moyers on his FaceBook blog, reveals exactly how Trump is devising his lock step regime with every action he takes.
Trump’s Seven Techniques to Control the Media “Tyrants always try to suppress a free press; here's Trump's playbook.”
Democracy depends on a free and independent press, which is why all tyrants try to squelch it. They use seven techniques that, worryingly, President-elect Donald Trump already employs.
- Berate the media. Last week, Trump summoned two dozen TV news anchors and executives to the 25th floor of Trump Tower to berate them for their reporting about him during the election. For 20 minutes he railed at what he called their “outrageous” and “dishonest” coverage. According to an attendee, “Trump kept saying, ‘we’re in a room of liars, the deceitful, dishonest media who got it all wrong,’” and he called CNN a “network of liars.” He accused NBC of using unflattering pictures of him, demanding to know why they didn’t use “nicer” pictures. Another person who attended the meeting said Trump “truly doesn’t seem to understand the First Amendment. He thinks we are supposed to say what he says and that’s it.”
- Blacklist critical media. During the campaign, Trump blacklisted news outlets whose coverage he didn’t approve of. In June he pulled The Washington Post’s credentials. “Based on the incredibly inaccurate coverage and reporting of the record setting Trump campaign, we are hereby revoking the press credentials of the phony and dishonest Washington Post,” read a post on Trump’s Facebook page.
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Rachel Maddow (MSNBC) reported last night on Trumps takeover of the historically non-partisan news radio station “ Voice of America.” A wake up call to all of us, it’s another example of why we must remain vigilant and fight back against Trump and his administrations plans to censor and remove all facts and replace them with false propaganda.
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