I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that we're getting into, by giving up the right of the Congress to talk about when and how and where we go to war.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and informative. And I believe they have fallen down recently on that.
The press these days should be rather careful about its role. We may have acquired some tendencies about over-involvement that we had better overcome.
Our founding fathers could not have foreseen that freedom of the press might eventually be threatened just as much by media consolidation as by government.
Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together.
What the right-wing in the United States tries to do is undermine the press.
I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.
We have got to make sure there is proper independent scrutiny and accountability for people in the press, just as there should be in any other industry where things go wrong. But let's not try and think it is for politicians or governments to tell people what they stick in newspapers. That is deeply illiberal.
The job of the press is to speak truth to power. And yet, for doing our job, we are persecuted. I say that these aggressive and illegal tactics to silence us - inventing arbitrary legal interpretations, over-zealous charges and disproportionate sentences - must not be permitted to succeed.
I think that the press has a duty and an obligation to report on local government, state government, federal government - to be aggressive, to do its job. And its job is to report on whatever it's covering.
I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things that come to me as president.