Opinion

Facing our ‘Free’ press: new public enemy No. 1?

The Issue: Whether the mainstream media remain objective enough for the American people to trust.

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Pat Caddell sees the obvious (“Enemy of the People,” PostScript, Sept. 30).

The mainstream media are a propaganda arm of the Democratic Party.

It is amazing that even 40 percent in the Gallup poll can actually believe the media are trustworthy. I think a lot of those people know that isn’t the case, but they like the liberal slant the media put on things.

Peter Skurkiss

Stow, Ohio

As a conservative Republican, I could not agree more with Caddell.

Our liberal Democratic friends should remember that if not for the free press, Richard Nixon and his boys would have assumed absolute power. The free press broke Watergate, but it can’t touch Obama.

Dictators only need two things to assume complete power: the media and the military. Obama is halfway there.

Jim Maione

Rye

Caddell rightly blasts the mainstream media, who are guilty on all counts and should be held accountable.

Henrik Ibsen penned the play “An Enemy of the People” over a hundred years ago, blaming greedy politicians, community leaders, the press and the easily manipulated majority for refusing to right the wrongs pointed out by a single naive man.

Nothing has changed in all these years. The same people are responsible for the evils that befall society, and the majority of people have not learned to think for themselves.

We have allowed a smooth-talking president to turn his back on and thoroughly ignore the serious responsibilities of running this country, resulting in chaos throughout the world. And the manipulated masses chant “Four more years,” instead of “Enemy of the people.”

When will we ever learn?Helen Freedman

Manhattan

Caddell is a patriot. Unless we forget politics and face what we are turning into and what the press has become today — our enemies — we will not stand as we have to now in the world.

Graciela Cattarossi

Surfside, Fla.