Poll: Nearly half of Republicans think Trump should have authority to shutter media outlets

[corbe]

Poll: Nearly half of Republicans think Trump should have authority to shutter media outlets

By Tal Axelrod - 08/07/18 01:04 PM EDT

Forty-three percent of Republicans think President Trump “should have the authority to close news outlets engaged in bad behavior,” while only 36 percent disagreed with the statement, according to an Ipsos poll released Tuesday.

A large number of Republicans polled also seem to take issue with the media in general, with 48 percent agreeing that the news media is “the enemy of the American people.” Seventy-nine percent said mainstream media outlets treat Trump “unfairly.”

The Daily Beast first reported the poll results.

While Republicans criticized the media in higher numbers than Democrats and Independents, 12 percent of Democrats and 21 percent of Independents said the president should have the power to close down news operations “engaged in bad behavior.”

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http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/400736-poll-nearly-half-of-republicans-think-trump-should-have-authority-to

[corbe]

   This is some scary $hit.

[Frank Cannon]

Considering that most MSM outlets are open surrogates for the Rat party, who cares.  There is no free press and there hasn't been for decades.

[LMAO]

Assuming this poll is accurate, be careful what you wish for. You  just might get it

The media has already damaged itself in the eyes of the public. No president should be able to shut down media that’s hostile to them

[LMAO]

From the article....

“While Republicans criticized the media in higher numbers than Democrats and Independents, 12 percent of Democrats and 21 percent of Independents said the president should have the power to close down news operations “engaged in bad behavior.”

These poll results will switch if a Democrat wins the presidency in the future

[Bigun]

Poll: Nearly half of Republicans think Trump should have authority to shutter media outlets

By Tal Axelrod - 08/07/18 01:04 PM EDT

Forty-three percent of Republicans think President Trump “should have the authority to close news outlets engaged in bad behavior,” while only 36 percent disagreed with the statement, according to an Ipsos poll released Tuesday.

A large number of Republicans polled also seem to take issue with the media in general, with 48 percent agreeing that the news media is “the enemy of the American people.” Seventy-nine percent said mainstream media outlets treat Trump “unfairly.”

The Daily Beast first reported the poll results.

While Republicans criticized the media in higher numbers than Democrats and Independents, 12 percent of Democrats and 21 percent of Independents said the president should have the power to close down news operations “engaged in bad behavior.”

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http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/400736-poll-nearly-half-of-republicans-think-trump-should-have-authority-to

I am not among those who would give this, or any, president the authority to "shutter" news outlets but I sure as hell would like to know exactly who is propping up outlets that the public has long since left to their fate!

[corbe]

Sorry, Journalists: Trump Isn’t The First President To Threaten The Press
 
From John Adams to JFK, we've had plenty of dishonest presidents who waged war with the media. The press shouldn't pretend Trump is an anomaly.
 
By D.C. McAllister   
January 24, 2017

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Trump’s Behavior Is Nothing New

Still, you might say, Trump’s behavior is unlike anything we’ve ever seen. Let me address this by framing his actions in a historical context. Trump’s brash style might be unprecedented. His use of social media and Twitter, in particular, is new. But there have been presidents in the past who lied with a smile, who silenced the press with a finger to the lips or a cup to the ear, who used modern technology to their advantage (Roosevelt with the radio and John F. Kennedy with television are just two examples).

You might find it interesting to know, given the dismay reporters are showing over Trump’s consideration of canceling or reducing televised news conferences, that Kennedy was the first to broadcast news conferences. And you know what? Journalists hated it. They called it anarchy. They longed for the days of FDR’s cozy press conferences, and they railed against the dog-and-pony show of the televised press conferences.

Additionally, news conferences are really a modern phenomena, and our Republic survived without them. Until Theodore Roosevelt, reporters had to submit their questions in writing to the president. Sometimes he answered, and sometimes he didn’t. I’m sure that irritated many a journalist wanting to “speak truth to power.”

Trump Is Nothing to Adams’ 1798 Sedition Act

   Full Article Below:

http://thefederalist.com/2017/01/24/sorry-journalists-trump-isnt-first-president-threaten-press/

[Frank Cannon]

Assuming this poll is accurate, be careful what you wish for. You  just might get it

The media has already damaged itself in the eyes of the public. No president should be able to shut down media that’s hostile to them

People would care if there was a real press in this country but there is not. You got circus acts like Bezo and the Sultzbergers using them as in kind in kind donations to the Rat party.

[kevindavis007]

Sorry, Journalists: Trump Isn’t The First President To Threaten The Press
 
From John Adams to JFK, we've had plenty of dishonest presidents who waged war with the media. The press shouldn't pretend Trump is an anomaly.
 
By D.C. McAllister   
January 24, 2017

<..snip..>

Trump’s Behavior Is Nothing New

Still, you might say, Trump’s behavior is unlike anything we’ve ever seen. Let me address this by framing his actions in a historical context. Trump’s brash style might be unprecedented. His use of social media and Twitter, in particular, is new. But there have been presidents in the past who lied with a smile, who silenced the press with a finger to the lips or a cup to the ear, who used modern technology to their advantage (Roosevelt with the radio and John F. Kennedy with television are just two examples).

You might find it interesting to know, given the dismay reporters are showing over Trump’s consideration of canceling or reducing televised news conferences, that Kennedy was the first to broadcast news conferences. And you know what? Journalists hated it. They called it anarchy. They longed for the days of FDR’s cozy press conferences, and they railed against the dog-and-pony show of the televised press conferences.

Additionally, news conferences are really a modern phenomena, and our Republic survived without them. Until Theodore Roosevelt, reporters had to submit their questions in writing to the president. Sometimes he answered, and sometimes he didn’t. I’m sure that irritated many a journalist wanting to “speak truth to power.”

Trump Is Nothing to Adams’ 1798 Sedition Act

   Full Article Below:

http://thefederalist.com/2017/01/24/sorry-journalists-trump-isnt-first-president-threaten-press/

I don't give a s**t who did it first.  It is just plain wrong.

[goatprairie]

Assuming this poll is accurate, be careful what you wish for. You  just might get it

The media has already damaged itself in the eyes of the public. No president should be able to shut down media that’s hostile to them

True. If  a Republican president can shut down news outlets he thinks have treated him unfairly, then so can a Democratic president. And we'll get one back in the WH again at some future date.
Apparently,  many people on both sides of the political equation are polishing their hobnailed boots.

[INVAR]

[ABX]

[corbe]

   It is indeed a slippery slope and if #FakeNews becomes more than just another tired ol cliché like #BuildTheWall and #LockHerUP our Republic is in more serious trouble than I thought. 

[INVAR]

It is interesting this 'poll' comes out as a 'bipartisan' effort is underway in the Congress to put the internet under Government control.

[ABX]

Poll up.
http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,327552.0.html

[ABX]

It is interesting this 'poll' comes out as a 'bipartisan' effort is underway in the Congress to put the internet under Government control.

Timing is coincidental isn't it.

The Democrats start circulating a memo within the past few weeks about taking over and regulating social media like a public utility.

Then, suddenly, something happens that gets the Republican masses on board with the Democrat plan (without realizing it).

I don't wear tinfoil hats and such, but if I did, this one would sure smell funny. (remember the old conspiracy theory that Alex Jones was really a CIA op)?

[kevindavis007]

True. If  a Republican president can shut down news outlets he thinks have treated him unfairly, then so can a Democratic president. And we'll get on back in the WH again at some future date.
Apparently,  many people on both sides of the political equation are polishing their hobnailed boots.

Hell, the next Democratic President will shut down Talk Radio like Clinton tried to do.

[ABX]

Hell, the next Democratic President will shut down Talk Radio like Clinton tried to do.

What about political forums? They are also considered social media and just a few years ago, some touted them as just as powerful as the big players.
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/223493

I can just imagine what would happen if that can of worms is open.

Be careful what you ask the government to give you, because they will give it to you good and hard.

[XenaLee]

   This is some scary $hit.

Only if... fake/BS polls frighten you.

[ABX]

Only if... fake/BS polls frighten you.

We have members here who have come out clearly thinking that they should be regulated like public utilities. If you go over to a certain other political forum, the opinion is overwhelmingly stacked toward the government not just regulating but going so far as nationalizing them in the public interest.

From social media threads and comments I've seen on the right, this poll falls in line with what many are thinking now. They want big brother to make things fair for them.

[Sanguine]

   This is some scary $hit.

Yes, it is.

[goatprairie]

Hell, the next Democratic President will shut down Talk Radio like Clinton tried to do.

They had literally achieved that before the deregulation that occurred in the eighties that propelled Limbaugh and the other conservative talk radio big names into superstardom or something close to it.
They used to have some sort of rule (can't remember the name..."fairness doctrine" ?) that said that if someone on the airwaves voiced a political opinion, there had to be someone there voicing the opposite opinion.
And they're itching to do it again.
But it is not the duty of the media to be cheerleaders for whomever is president.  I'd rather have an adversarial press than one that has its snout up the hindquarters of the POTUS.
What we should have is a Republican president  who, while citing the media for their numerous errors and biases, refrains from calling them evil.
The leftist media (or the media) is mostly made up of lying, leftist scoundrels.
But that's beside the point....we don't need the president deciding who gets to print or be aired.  That's fascism in the making.

[corbe]

Be careful what you ask the government to give you, because they will give it to you good and hard.

   The Sand won't be optional either.

[XenaLee]

We have members here who have come out clearly thinking that they should be regulated like public utilities. If you go over to a certain other political forum, the opinion is overwhelmingly stacked toward the government not just regulating but going so far as nationalizing them in the public interest.

From social media threads and comments I've seen on the right, this poll falls in line with what many are thinking now. They want big brother to make things fair for them.

Um.... you do realize, don't you.... that "most" right-leaning Americans don't participate in polls and in fact, many or most have never even been polled (myself included).  Most of them are too busy working their asses off to take a stupid online poll OR to make comments on a political forum.

This poll by no means represents the opinions of 'half' of Republicans, dude.  Get real.

It's fake/phony/BS.

[ABX]

Um.... you do realize, don't you.... that "most" right-leaning Americans don't participate in polls and in fact, many or most have never even been polled (myself included).  Most of them are too busy working their asses off to take a stupid online poll OR to make comments on a political forum.

This poll by no means represents the opinions of 'half' of Republicans, dude.  Get real.

It's fake/phony/BS.

Citation?