The Media have been mak­ing hay recent­ly about a few com­ments that Don­ald Trump made about per­haps lim­it­ing the free­dom of the press to engage in destruc­tive pol­i­tics.

This is a good ques­tion and one that should be debat­ed.

The Media and the Press might object and then point to the con­sti­tu­tion how­ev­er those that draft­ed the con­sti­tu­tion nev­er even dreamed that the press would become so cor­rupt that they would seek to inter­ject them­selves into the elec­tion process in a bad way.

Evil many might say…

Has the press become evil?

Should they be able to run around putting out fraud­u­lent news sto­ries as if they were real news sto­ries?

Many years ago there was such a thing as yel­low jour­nal­ism.

Many thought that it was long dead how­ev­er that is not the case Yel­low Jour­nal­ism is alive and well the only prob­lem is that the case for Yel­low Jour­nal­ism was long ago cast for the social scene and indeed there still exists gos­sip mag­a­zines and the like that still pub­lish sto­ries that are sure to raise the eye­brows of many a read­er.

Those are dif­fer­ent and per­haps in some cas­es they are still appro­pri­ate to the eyes of the pub­lic or the read­er of many a page.

The great­est prob­lem we have now is what once was known for seri­ous pub­lish­ing of news have now begun to pub­lish as if they were a gos­sip mag­a­zine writ­ing any­thing and every­thing as if it were indeed for enter­tain­ment or gos­sip.

Those pub­li­ca­tions that use satire to “poke fun” at the world are also known for the con­tent of its pages and no one takes them seri­ous­ly unless you hap­pen to be one of those peo­ple that have been “Tak­en by lit­tle green men” Those pub­li­ca­tions peo­ple take with a grain of salt.

Most peo­ple cer­tain­ly rec­og­nize that just because a mag­a­zine pub­lish­es a pic­ture of “the Baby of an Alien” real­ize that its most­ly for enter­tain­ment and that is what form it takes most peo­ple know this up front and so when you are stand­ing in line at the local A and P then you know about what those papers are real­ly about, its enter­tain­ment and most of the time that is how those papers make a liv­ing then enter­tain the read­er regard­less of if there is real­ly an alien clild out there some­where with an extra set of appendages no one real­ly takes those seri­ous­ly or if they do then most of the time those peo­ple are not real­ly “seri­ous” them­selves.

You see it is about what we know and what we should know how­ev­er that sit­u­a­tion has changed.

We now have a sit­u­a­tion where peo­ple can smear and clear a per­son with­out hav­ing to face the courts or any ret­ri­bu­tion.

They did it to Mitt Rom­ney, John McCain and now Don­ald Trump…

There is only one prob­lem we have here these pub­li­ca­tions and TV sta­tions, do not have pro­tec­tion to be an inter­lop­er.

in·ter·lop·er

When this hap­pens you have a debate that become two against one.

When that hap­pens it is no longer a debate at all.

In these sit­u­a­tions there must be a method of hold­ing the so called “Press” to account for what they choose to pub­lish when it has been proven to be non­sense or trumped up, non­sense.

Which sort of makes it a fun­ny thing does it not?

This cer­tain­ly gives new mean­ing to the term Trumped Up…

We can­not afford to have the Press tak­ing sides, it is not only moral­ly wrong it is a sick­ness.

What real­ly is dif­fi­cult is that when the media choos­es to “Inter­fere” with an elec­tion in favor of one can­di­date over anoth­er it becomes a prob­lem.

A prob­lem that Con­gress must fix.

It is not a prob­lem for a pres­i­dent to fix, how­ev­er it is a good thing to think about, it is some­thing that must be exam­ined.

Which brings us to the final thought of this arti­cle or prose which ever you pre­fer, should the press, the media, TV, Radio, ect, be giv­en the abil­i­ty to engage in polit­i­cal sab­o­tage, choos­ing sides, pick­ing pres­i­dents, influ­enc­ing the out­comes of elec­tions?

Is that what they were and are to us now?

What hap­pens next?

We already have most every high pro­file case exposed to the media and we have often seen crim­i­nal and civ­il cas­es decid­ed in the media, cas­es tried in the media.

Judge Jury Exe­cu­tion­er?