The White House’s attempt at regulating language used by independent media mark a sharp escalation in President Donald Trump’s often fraught dealings with news organizations.
The ‘trivial’ part is intentional and has to do with conditioning this admin’s supporters. There’s a clear pattern of trying to make opposition “cry wolf” on issues that the republican base either agrees with the party on, or ideally dismiss as being entirely unimportant. It’s important (to them) for the MAGA base to not only distrust, but revile sources of information that don’t tow the line.
So the left sees this issue as a blatant erosion of 1st amendment rights and the right sees a stupid hissy fit about the name of a body of water most of them will never see. When both sides aren’t even close to agreeing whether there even is a problem, they definitely won’t band together to stop the overreach in power.
The ‘trivial’ part is intentional and has to do with conditioning this admin’s supporters. There’s a clear pattern of trying to make opposition “cry wolf” on issues that the republican base either agrees with the party on, or ideally dismiss as being entirely unimportant. It’s important (to them) for the MAGA base to not only distrust, but revile sources of information that don’t tow the line.
So the left sees this issue as a blatant erosion of 1st amendment rights and the right sees a stupid hissy fit about the name of a body of water most of them will never see. When both sides aren’t even close to agreeing whether there even is a problem, they definitely won’t band together to stop the overreach in power.