Trump Wanted Jeffrey Rosen To Be His FOX, His NY Post, His Paid-For NYT Ad

LISTENING TO CHRIS HAYES talking about how the Repulbican-fascist party is doing what Trump told his acting AG to do, just put something "out there" and he and the Republicans in the Congress would overturn the election with it has become a serious problem, it was nice to hear a journalist talking about it but he needs to go farther back. 

That isn't something Trump invented, the media invented it when they were given the permission to carry lies by the Supreme Court.  For decades I heard the "it's being said" transmission of lies on NPR, on PBS, on network news, in "opinion journalism" as all of them, freed from anything like a commitment to carry the truth adopted the standards of the tabloids.   If they want to know where the idiot savant Trump (his one talent being conning the susceptible) and Republican-fascists learned it, they learned it from media, from journalists, from news program speaking heads, from cabloid 24-7 air fillers.  And it all started with the permission given to them by the Warren and later courts based on "the First Amendment."  

Trump was merely asking the acting AG, Jeffrey Rosen to do what Bush II, Bush I, Reagan. . . going back to Richard Nixon regularly had the press doing, putting lies and innuendo out there for the benefit of Republicans, going back to the period when they weren't all fascists.  The habit of having the media do that, especially broadcast media, has been setting us up since at least 1964 on the allegedly respectable media the way the tabloids have always done it for them.  He was asking him to be his FOX or NY Post or his paid-for NYT ad* calling for the execution of innocent black kids.  It should never be forgotten that the NYT published that ad as it did the one that led to it getting the original permission to publish lies with impunity from the Warren Court, a permission to lie that is universally celebrated by journalists, I've yet to hear a major one say that that decision has been a disaster for democracy.

There are a number of needed revisions to the Bill of Rights and other amendments, protecting individuals and the media when they tell the truth AND NOT WHEN THEY LIE is among the most serious of those.  That's right up there with making it plain that there is no personal or private right to amass military sized arsenals and ownership of what are effectively military assault weapons.  

It must be possible for individuals to punish the media for lying about them and for democracy to protect itself from media lies that intentionally and unintentionally undermine and attack democracy.  Our media are the main transmitters of the poison that Trump used as it was when it was Gingrich doing the same thing.  

* It wasn't only the old gray slag that took his money and published his racist screed, he put it in a number of papers.  Not to be fair because there is no such thing as being fair to the publishers of murderous, racist, lying slander but to tell the truth of it.