The Economist Just Downgraded the US From a ‘Full Democracy’ to a ‘Flawed Democracy’

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etking said:

Just another case for dishonest media reporting. Regarding democracy, absolutely nothing has changed since Obama. Democracy means power to the people and not power to the elites that control the media.

And the dishonest, biased and one-sided media reporting is a real threat for democracy. Someone once said something like 'freedom of the press is the empowerment of the rich to force their opinion and will onto the poor' which is the opposite of democracy. So in my opinion the media and Trump need to sit together and define new measurable quality standards for honest journalism that will be fair and truthful. They must still be allowed to criticise the government but not without any reason.

They need to be free to criticize the government however they want (and if using false information or just slandering then they shall be presecuted), the job of the media is to watch and criticize the government always, instead of being in bed with them like they do in some regimes and parties.