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LBJ AND THE PRESS'S NEW STYLE!!

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"I've served my time with that bunch and I give up on them. There's no objectivity left anymore. The new style is advocacy reporting. Send some snotty nosed reporter down here to act like a district attorney and ask me where I was on the night of the twenty third. I'm always guilty unless I prove otherwise. So to hell with it."- Lyndon Johnson. President Lyndon B. Johnson kept the press off his property after he left the White House and the above quote is how he felt after leaving office. Despite at times he felt President's should respect the press because you hit them the wrong way-they'll never let up on you. I agree with that and I guess he thought Richard Nixon was tough on them. But if LBJ lived to see what they've been doing to Donald Trump-he would understand why Nixon was tough on them.But then had he seen Watergate who knows. Respect goes both ways,if the press was respectful even in there disagreements with the president then there wouldn