Yeah, I mean, I think that this isn't the first time that we've seen, you know, a White
House that has went to war with the media community.
I mean, we saw it in the 1960s with Nixon, I mean, Nixon was was even was even worse.
I mean, again, the whole the whole thing behind Watergate was because he didn't really trust
people and he hired a bunch of guys to go break into the Democratic National headquarters
to tap the phones and Nixon was also, you know, a lot of people knew that Nixon also
would tap the phones of a lot of reporters back then too.
So, so I mean, this isn't and there's been other there's been other times in history
where a president has taken an aggressive stance against the media.
Trump certainly is a different kind of president.
There are a lot of people in my party include myself that that oftentimes wish that he would
tone down the rhetoric and some of the combative nature that he has with the media.
If you look at the press conference that he did this past Thursday, now I will say that
there's a part of what Trump's doing and this is the appeal that Trump that Trump has to
his base.
A part of what he's doing is also very stylistic, you know, a lot of people like to see the
president engage the media the way he does.
He is very transparent.
He is someone that just certainly says exactly what he's thinking.
And I think there's a lot of people that that that are attracted to that.
But I also think that this this whole rise of Trump sort of sort of fits in with what's
been going on and just the media world as a whole.
I mean, we just consume so much more information today than we used to, I mean, and so you
wake up in the morning and you don't just go to good morning or America or you don't
just turn on WXI in the morning to figure out what's going on in the world.
You're going out to Facebook and you're in your Instagram feed and you're in your Twitter
timeline.
I mean, you're you're looking at all these different sources.
And to be honest with you, as the as the as the information universe continues to get
larger and larger and grow grow more and more, it's becoming a lot harder to discern whether
or not some of this news is fake or real.
And the reality is there have been times in the last few weeks that you've had major
news outlets like a CNN report a story and then have to come back out a day later and
say, oh, that that story wasn't quite the way we reported.
There was a story that came out in the past week that said that that intelligence officials
was withholding briefings and information from the president was in the Wall Street
Journal of all places.
One of the most respected media institutions out there, well, they had to come out a day
later and we can't say, oh, sorry, we got that wrong.
That story wasn't wasn't quite that way.
So I think what Trump is doing, and you can say it's right, wrong, or indifferent, what
Trump is doing is he is exploiting the fact that sometimes the media does get it wrong.
And he's basically taking that message to his base and and you know, he's rallying
him with it.
I think the problematic part of it is, though, is just like calling everything fake.
And you just like, I know that he said certain outlets specifically, but then it really does
take like, you know, working at W like, there's people who are saying that we're fake.
News and all that and it's charging like and we're real people that live in your community
that, you know, that's really trying to do a job.
And I think that's that's the part that's that's troubling.
But then also like a news outlet getting something wrong and recanting the next day or whenever
they figure it figure out that it was wrong, isn't a new thing.
You know, I'm saying like that happens a lot because at the end of the day, we're humans
and you know, you get a piece of information or you go with the source that says that this
is true only to find out that you that you've trusted before only to find out that they swayed
you on this particular thing.
So then that goes away.
That's something that happens a lot that's been happening for for years for the centuries.
I mean, since since the media community was born, here's the difference today in today's
time with everyone being digitally connected the way we are and with information moving
at the speed of light the way it does and when a story comes out, it gets circulated
extremely fast.
You have to slow it down to make sure you're getting it right nowadays, because if you
don't get it right, that is what sort of sort of feeds into this idea of fake news.
I mean, you had a major, I won't say the name, but you had a major publication out of Raleigh
in the past week report that Trump was talking about sending in the National Guard to round
up illegal immigrants here in North Carolina.
They printed this.
The National Guard actually came out the next day and said that was not true.
No, that memo or that document hasn't been circulated.
So so here's the thing in today's time with with the way technology is and the world being
flat.
It is incumbent upon all journalists.
They're going to have to slow it down.
They're going to have to make sure they get it right because if they don't get it right,
that only continues to feed into this narrative that I think Trump has created and created
a lot of energy.
She's going to step in here and talk real because this is getting crazy, forget about
everything Mr. Cash just said.
Trump is actually saying that news that doesn't benefit him is fake.
Forget about all this crap about, oh, we apologize.
We reported a story that this particular piece of it wasn't true.
No, we're talking about their reporting saying that the reporter wore a black jacket, but
it was blue.
The story itself is still true, but it's a blue jacket.
It was circulating memos and discussing getting National Guard to go in and get illegal immigrants.
The memo was created.
So even though the distinction is between them actually doing it and discussing the people
who are reporting the story on liars and that they are dangerous, the president of the United
States is saying these things.
