If Donald Trump truly wants to turn off the spigots of hostile information flowing out of the federal government and insolent sass flowing in, may I suggest a war? In wartime even people with ardent attachments to the First Amendment find themselves agreeing everyone needs to shut up.
Whatever this impudence was all about, once again the White House looked terrible. “The broader concern, of course,” reported Anderson Cooper on CNN Tuesday evening, “is that the administration is putting a lockdown on information it doesn’t like.” CNN’s Van Jones saw a fiasco: “You cannot possibly think that it is great for a new administration deleting tweets that only put out facts.”
