Daily Take: Dear NY Times: Our Founders Explain Why the Press Must Defend Democracy
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 10 July 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
From the founding of our republic, protecting the power of the press to call out anti-democratic behavior has been a firewall, protecting our form of government. It is their job.
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| 1:01.2 | Our founders explain why the press must defend democracy. |
| 1:09.7 | Donald Trump and many of his supporters have explicitly promised to overturn American democracy |
| 1:14.9 | using Victor Orban's illiberal democracy Hungarian model where the press is controlled political |
| 1:21.4 | opposition sidelined or imprisoned and oligarchs run the government |
| 1:25.7 | as their model. |
| 1:27.4 | But you rarely hear that from our media. |
| 1:30.2 | Back on May 5th, semaphores Ben Smith interviewed New York Times editor Ben, excuse me, |
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