I am rather ambivalent about Donald Trump's staunch--perhaps even strident--denunciation of the media, in general.
On the one hand, a free media is essential to a free country. (Jefferson once intoned that if he were to have to choose between "a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government," he would not hesitate to choose the latter.
On the other hand, there is no doubt that most of the media nowadays is bitterly opposed to Donald Trump. Why, just today, The Washington Post ran a story with the headline, "These Iowans voted for Trump. Many of them are already disappointed."
Another story featured the headline, "For many Indians, Kansas shooting is a harsh warning about Trump's America".
Still, I am not at all sure that President Trump is doing himself any favors by angrily denouncing the press (which can easily be interpreted as petulant).
And he really should not speak of the media as "the enemy of the people," as that has clear Leninist undertones.
Thoughts?