The American people are presently trapped in a Catch-22 situation in that any criticism that is leveled against the U.S. mainstream media is channeled away from social discourse by the very institutions under attack.
A prominent DC circuit judge has delivered a scathing attack on the Democratic Party's "ideological control" of the U.S. media landscape. Yet who will heed the call if legacy and social media are empowered to suppress news and debate at will?
Donald Trump, the first sitting president in U.S. history to have had his voice deliberately blocked from reaching the American people, is not the only one who has a beef with the control-freak liberal media. Senior Circuit Judge Laurence Silberman, 85, appointed in 1985 to the U.S. Court of Appeals by Ronald Reagan, thrust the question of liberal media bias into the spotlight during an otherwise ordinary
libel case.
Silberman took umbrage against the 1964 court case
New York Times v. Sullivan, which made it incumbent upon those parties looking to sue media outlets to prove that the latter's reporting was the result of "actual malice," or a "reckless disregard for the truth." That ruling, critics say, has made it exceedingly difficult to hold media outlets accountable for what Trump regularly denounced as "fake news."
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