Enemy of the People: Trump’s War on the Press, the New McCarthyism, and the Threat to American Democracy Audiobook (Free)

Shortly after assuming office in January 2017, President Donald Trump accused the press of being an ‘enemy of the American people.’ Episodes on the media have been a hallmark of Trump’s presidential marketing campaign, but this charge marked a dramatic turning point: language like this ventured into dangerous territory. Twentieth-century dictators-notably, Stalin, Hitler, and Mao-had all denounced their critics, especially the press, as ‘enemies from the people.’ Their objective was to delegitimize the work of about Enemy from the People: Trump’s Battle on the Press, the New McCarthyism, as well as the Risk to American Democracy the press as ‘artificial news’ and create misunderstandings in the general public brain about what’s actual and what isn’t; what can be respected and what can’t be.

That, it seems, is also Trump’s goal. In Enemy of the People, Marvin Kalb, an award-winning American journalist with an increase of than six decades of knowledge both like a journalist and media observer, creates with interest about why we ought to fear for future years of American democracy because of the unrelenting episodes from the Trump administration in the press.

As his new reserve shows, the press has been a bulwark in the defense of democracy. Kalb creates about Edward R. Murrow’s courageous reporting on Senator Joseph McCarthy’s ‘reddish scare’ theatrics in the first 1950’s, which led to McCarthy’s demise.