The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.
The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.
Politicians are very experienced - maybe too experienced - at using body language to signal power and competence. But what these politicians are much more likely to struggle with, or just neglect to do altogether, is communicate warmth and trustworthiness.
The second is the damage to the credibility and independence of a free press which may be caused by covert relationships with the U.S. journalists and media organizations.
I'd never compromise my position as a journalist by having a friendly relationship with a politician.
If you aren't overly effusive or really nicey-nice with the press, you get a reputation for being outspoken or difficult.
Journalists hold themselves apart, and above, the common person. They have rules designed to ensure their objectivity and impartiality.
Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.
When politicians seek to restrict political speech, it is invariably to protect their own incumbency and avoid having to defend their policies in the marketplace of ideas.
The press is the enemy.
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