because they felt like whatever your argument is, they felt like they needed to because of the civil war. woodrow wilson, one of the great progressive intellectuals that became president of the united states almost by accident, he went further. he put a new act in place in 1918. and an extension of the espionage act, we re familiar with that. what he and his party did is they went after journalists they disagreed with. they went after political opponents. they put him in jail. he put in place an extensive censorship campaign and propaganda campaign, the great progressive. franklin roosevelt turned the irs on newspapers he disagreed with. the owner of the enquirer was investigated by the irs by his direction. gannett was investigated at the direction of eleanor roosevelt. so they would use the irs. kennedy did too. barack obama. this is recent history. the fbi, the department of
and we re not going to allow deniers on meet the press. he s more than the host. he s the chief political guru for the entire nbc network. sean: you seem to hand him a whole so-called news channel that s a conspiracy channel. msnbc. sean: like rozwell, new mexico over there. chuck todd doesn t know the first thing about climate change. you re a physicist, phd.s, climb dialogists, meteorologists, not just hundreds of them, thousands of them debate man made climate change, debate if it exists. he has declared we re not going to allow that on our show. that demonstrates to you, he s pushing the agenda. the whole russia conclusillusio thick. the notion of news versus propaganda versus pseudoevents. the president of the united states is on to something. when he talks about fake news,
nothing to do with congressional oversight. pseudoevents. this impeachment debate, absolutely phony. another pseudoevent. meanwhile, there s all kinds of events taking place in the world and in this country that are not being covered by news organizations. there s some exceptions. but in the aggregate, this is the condition we face. this is an enormous disservice to the american people. remember this. the first amendment belongs to the american people. the bill of rights, belongs to the american people. the constitution belongs to the american people. when they say donald trump is like a dictator because he calls the media or media outlet or media person the enimy of the people, they have no idea what they re talking about. donald trump points out, questions them, is harsh in his rhetoric, and ought to be. and he have acosta in a few weeks going to write a book and say we basically have not seen anything like this, sean. let me give you a history lesson. sean: it.
are we? a banana rebe unlick? this book focuses not so much on this president. even though there s examples of what s going on with this president and russian collusion and so forth. it s crucial. it s taking place where we live in. it focuses on the media. there s a difference between media and a free press. we don t have a free press. it s not because donald trump calls them names or the government is interferinterferi. it s because they re not free. a free press would give us the closest thing to news that they can. they re not doing that. they re giving us propaganda and pseudoevents. sean: it s unbelievable. you will not put this book down once you start it. freedom of the press, the great mark levine, he ll explain more about what this book is about, why it s important, and how the media works in conjunction with the democratic party, straight ahead.
are we? a banana rebe unlick? this book focuses not so much on this president. even though there s examples of what s going on with this president and russian collusion and so forth. it s crucial. it s taking place where we live in. it focuses on the media. there s a difference between media and a free press. we don t have a free press. it s not because donald trump calls them names or the government is interferinterferi. it s because they re not free. a free press would give us the closest thing to news that they can. they re not doing that. they re giving us propaganda and pseudoevents. sean: it s unbelievable. you will not put this book down once you start it. freedom of the press, the great mark levine, he ll explain more about what this book is about, why it s important, and how the media works in conjunction with the democratic party, straight ahead. moving is hard.