One of the greatest things about living in America is our guaranteed freedom of speech and the press, but the government can fire or otherwise discipline officials who leak classified information to the press without violating the First Amendment. But, according to failed former CNN anchor Jim Acosta and MS NOW’s Ali Velshi on Thursday’s episode of The 11th Hour, the Trump administration’s efforts to identify leaks is horribly authoritarian and Putin-like.
If “your only job were to listen to what the White House press secretary says and report that to the people, that would be a little hollow, right? That would be the kind of thing that they do in authoritarian countries,” Velshi said, ignoring that for almost four years under Biden, that’s exactly what his network did for questions about the president’s health.
“Imagine if those things [Trump says] were reported as true,” Acosta agreed.
On the contrary, imagine if nothing the President said was ‘reported as true.’ That wouldn’t be journalism, either
