Media Evil: Trump is Running Against the Media, but the Media Have Already Destroyed America (Pat Buchanan)

Excerpted by Nicholas Stix

“Today the press decides what words are permissible and what thoughts are acceptable. The press conducts the inquisitions where heretics are blacklisted and excommunicated from the company of decent men, while others are forgiven if they recant their heresies.

“With the rise of network television and its vast audience, the fourth estate reached apogee in the 1960s and 1970s, playing lead roles in elevating JFK and breaking Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon.

“Yet before he went down, Nixon inflicted deep and enduring wounds upon the fourth estate….”

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