‘Journalism’ professors demand media censor Trump; show why public doesn’t trust journalists –Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs

‘Journalism’ professors demand media censor Trump; show why public doesn’t trust journalists –Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs"
"...I refer to the 531 individuals who signed a recent letter to the chiefs of ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, and MSNBC demanding “that the live, unedited airing of the Daily White House Task Force Briefings stop.”
Why?
“Because Donald Trump uses them as a platform for misinformation and disinformation about COVID-19, they have become a serious public health hazard—a matter of life and death for viewers who cannot easily identify his falsehoods, lies, and exaggerations.”
But it’s not only Trump’s daily coronavirus briefings these people demand be censored:
“We ask that no speech, rally, or press conference involving the president be covered live anymore. The risk of passing along bad information and harmful advice is too great.
...That is a demand for censorship, pure and simple. 
Damn the First Amendment. 
Damn the people’s right to know.
Damn transparency and accountability in government.
Journalists these professors trained will decide what the rest of us will be told about Trump.
This is elitism of the worst sort.
Curiously, Medium, which published the letter, headlined it as the product of “professors of communications, journalism, and media studies.”...
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