Colle anglais n°2
During a press conference, the day after midterms, the 7th of November, Trump attacked Jim
Acosta, a CNN journalist, who was interrogating him about the «!migrant caravan!». “
Summary “
The US press has to learn to resist Trump. Journalists are intimidated by Trump, and they don’t
answer the bully, as they are powerless in front of the president. “
The president isn’t new, he’s been president for 2 years and the US press knows his way of acting
: he is used to lying and rejecting any criticism as fake news. For him, the only thing that he want
to let us see he is the greatest and all media are the ennemies of the people. “
So he is used to attacking journalist and that did not fail during a press conference, when Trump
attacked Jim Acosta and answered that Jim Acosta is a! «!rude and terrible!» person, the
journalist’s job is suspended, and others journalist didn’t say anything. “
Moreover, Trump’s behavior is amplified by this lack of reaction and revolt on the part of the
journalist. The question is : how to answer Trump? But the journalists seem passive and disunited
to the question, while Trump continues the scandals throughout his tweets. “
Trump continues his lies, always bigger than the others, and in addition, he describes as liars the
media that tries to denounce him, except to Fox and Infowars. “
1) Trump nuit-il à la liberté de presse et d’expression? = Can Donald Trump reduce free speech? “
Firstly : DT can reduce freedom of press and expression “
Criticism of media doing by DT is part of the character and of his political show “
For some people, the DT’s action against the media = undemocratic and directed against a free
press → journalists can be hindered and threatened in the exercise of their profession “
But : for others people, DT don’t reduce freedom of press and expression “
Even if causing journalist of «!ennemies of people!» is unwelcome on the part of the president of
