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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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CMV: The president is trying to infringe on the freedom of the press. And it's working.

Free Speech and Press is one of the core values of the United States. It is possibly one of the most important thing to Americans. But I've noticed a trend recently when observing Donald Trump and how he treats the "mainstream media." It strikes me as similar to how some countries (can't think of their names off the top of my head) managed to infringe on the press and oppress their country.

The president has been attacking basically any media source that says anything negative about him. Not anything "false", just negative. He has been slowly delegitimizing media organization after media organization. Now apparently CNN is a socialist, Soros funded propaganda machine. His goal isn't to eliminate "fake news". His goal is to eliminate anything that shows him in a bad or negative light. He has proposed making a "Trump TV." That's an incredibly dangerous concept. 

This is how those aforementioned countries took control of the media. Remove their credibility, push them out of the market, establish your own media organization, control what the public thinks.

These are the inklings of fascism and corruption. And we should all be concerned. The Washington Post's tagline since the election is "Democracy Dies In Darkness." Well right now it's dying in broad daylight.
gpt
OK. So your stance is a bit unhinged from a legal perspective. The freedom of press is solidified in the first amendment. The presidents freedom of speech is also enshrined right there in the first amendment. The press can use their freedom to bash him up to the point of libel or illegal incitement to specific violent action and the exact same law protects the presidents right to respond however he damn well pleases speech wise. Should we withhold constitutional protections based on the occupation of the individual? Should we control who gets to make news networks? Because that opens the floodgates of who gets to control this. Well, in America there's only one regulating body and you definitely don't want them controlling who gets to be news.