i don't see the problem? he isn't getting on the news because he isn't doing anything newsworthy - the appearances mentioned are all fluff. if he has something actually important to talk about, it will be reported on and covered.
in fact, i would say by now Trump has lost the benefit of being aired live and uncut. you can't spout untruths constantly and expect people to just keep mainlining your BS to every TV in the country.
it sounds to me that you think that if Trump doesn't get full, unrestricted, on-demand use of american companies' broadcast facilities, he's being censored and oppressed. Sadly, he's President not King. Just because he's President doesn't mean anything that he says has value to anyone any more than anything i have to say.
The transition from a situation in which public officials can speak to the public directly to one in which they can only do so at the whim of corporate titans is not a safe precedent.
> The transition from a situation in which public officials can speak to the public directly to one in which they can only do so at the whim of corporate titans is not a safe precedent.
Public officials have not lost any ability they ever had to speak directly to the public. They have at the same time always had an additional ability to do so mitigated by the need to get other private parties (including, but not limited to, “corporate titans”) to relay their speech, whether it was newspapers which existed before the founding and expanded over time, broadcast media starting in the early 20th century, or online media starting in the late 20th century.
And it's not a new phenomenon that some subset of current incumbent politicians might lose some degree of the favor they have had with one of those mechanisms that relies on the exercise of First Amendment rights by some intermediary.
in fact, i would say by now Trump has lost the benefit of being aired live and uncut. you can't spout untruths constantly and expect people to just keep mainlining your BS to every TV in the country.
it sounds to me that you think that if Trump doesn't get full, unrestricted, on-demand use of american companies' broadcast facilities, he's being censored and oppressed. Sadly, he's President not King. Just because he's President doesn't mean anything that he says has value to anyone any more than anything i have to say.