{"id":31150,"date":"2017-02-28T22:34:53","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T22:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=31150"},"modified":"2017-02-28T22:34:53","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T22:34:53","slug":"bush-criticises-trump-for-media-bashing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=31150","title":{"rendered":"Bush criticises Trump for media bashing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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AFP . Washington<\/span> | Update: 22:04, Feb 27, 2017<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Former Republican US president George W Bush offered a tacit criticism of his successor Donald Trump Monday, in rare public comments regarding politics and the media.<\/p>\n

The 43rd president\u2014who had his own battles with the press while in office\u2014rejected Trump\u2019s assertion that the media are the \u201cenemy of the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI consider the media to be indispensable to democracy. That we need the media to hold people like me to account,\u201d Bush told NBC\u2019s \u201cToday\u201d program.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s inflammatory remarks have been criticized as authoritarian, but the media remains a popular whipping boy for his supporters.<\/p>\n

Amid wave after wave of leaks from his White House and probing reports on his campaign\u2019s links with Russia, Trump has repeatedly decried the media as \u201cfake news.\u201d<\/p>\n

Influential Trump aide Steve Bannon is fond of referring to the media as the \u201copposition party.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Bush responded to that sentiment by saying \u201cpower can be very addictive and it can be corrosive, and it\u2019s important for the media to call to account people who abuse their power.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bush also described Trump\u2019s comments as undercutting America\u2019s efforts to promote democracy and the free press abroad.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AFP . Washington | Update: 22:04, Feb 27, 2017 Former Republican US president George W Bush offered a tacit criticism of his successor Donald Trump Monday, in rare public comments regarding politics and the media. The 43rd president\u2014who had his own battles with the press while in office\u2014rejected Trump\u2019s assertion that the media are the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":31151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44,5],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\t\n