crumbling Freedom of the Press too divisive to discuss?

Trump is right to hate the media. The establishment hates Trump and are disparaging him at every opportunity. CNN is the worst.

I am not a Trump supporter and find it somewhat odd to be uttering a word in his defense. The big picture is that the last election was the first time that large numbers in both parties rebelled against 1% rule. One percent rule is the way it has been forever. Remember the divine right of kings?

I didn't vote for Trump and told my friends that a vote for Hillary was a vote for endless war.

If you honestly believe that parity exists between the accuracy of reporting from NYT, CNN, as opposed to Breitbart & Infowars, Trump and Bannon's work is complete.

They are not hacks, so far as I can tell

One of said "Twittter Connections" posts quite a bit of info and suggests that the Trump casino losses were very probably laundromats for Russian dirty money. More than I can digest, but others may find as interesting as I am.

The fake DrF is not me you dimwit.

Russ is correct. I'm not he. But you are indeed a dimwit.

Neither Breitbart nor Infowars ever directly influenced an election...

Not allowing a set of disfavored news agencies access to information about policies emanating from the White House, while showing favor to others with direct and intimate ties to the administration, is criminal in spirit if not in current letter of the law for several reasons.

Neither of them has ever published anything factually accurate either.

You libs have ZERO credibility...

And yet, still tons more credibility than you. Funny isn't it?

Use a consistent standard of evidence-evaluation. And Twitter is not a "source."

John R. Schindler is a strategist, author, and commentator whose security-focused career has included a couple decades as both a scholar and practitioner. He is the national security columnist for the New York Observer.

Previously a professor of national security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College, where he taught courses on security, strategy, intelligence, terrorism, and military history, before joining the NWC faculty, he spent nearly a decade with the super-secret National Security Agency as an intelligence analyst and counterintelligence officer. There’s not much he can say about that, except that he worked problems in Eastern Europe and the Middle East with a counterespionage flavor, and he collaborated closely with other government agencies who would probably prefer he didn’t mention them. He’s also served as an officer specializing in cryptology (now called information warfare for no particular reason) in the U.S. Navy Reserve.