Posted on 07/29/2018 5:24:16 PM PDT by Ennis85
The publisher of the New York Times has urged President Donald Trump not to continue labelling reporters "enemies of the people", saying it could "lead to violence" against the media.
AG Sulzberger made the details of their off-the-record meeting public after Mr Trump tweeted about it.
In his initial tweet, the president said it had been a "very good" meeting.
But he later accused media of putting people's lives at risk through their reporting.
His first tweet read: "Spent much time talking about the vast amounts of Fake News being put out by the media & how that Fake News has morphed into phrase, 'Enemy of the People.' Sad!"
He did not refer to his own repeated use of the phrase.
The New York Times then released its statement, saying it had decided to "respond to the president's characterisation of their conversation".
Mr Sulzberger said he had accepted the meeting with Mr Trump to raise concerns about the president's "deeply troubling anti-press rhetoric".
He said he told Mr Trump that the phrase "fake news" was "untrue and harmful" but said he was "far more concerned about his labelling journalists 'the enemy of the people'".
"I warned that this inflammatory language is contributing to a rise in threats against journalists and will lead to violence," he said.
Mr Sulzberger said he had told the president that this was particularly true in other countries, where he said Mr Trump's rhetoric was being used by some regimes to crack down on journalists.
"I warned that it was putting lives at risk, that it was undermining the democratic ideals of our nation, and that it was eroding one of our country's greatest exports: a commitment to free speech and a free press," he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
During part of a Face The Nation interview earlier today President Trump’s attorney innocuously dropped a bombshell revelation that Michael Cohen recorded hundreds of conversations, including dozens of interviews with journalists and reporters.
Some of those recordings between Cohen and journalists were recently passed along to Mr. Giuliani because the subject of them was his client, President Donald Trump.
Let that sink in.
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So President Trump and Rudy Giuliani have at least a dozen (or so) recordings of journalists discussing their opinions of, and intentions toward, their coverage of Donald Trump.
Conversations that thoroughly expose the MSM intentions toward the content of their coverage…. that the journalists never knew were being recorded.
Imagine what is on those recordings.
And President Trump has them.
Now…. Does this “meeting” begin to make more sense:
[...]
More at link.
If you don’t want to be considered an enemy, quit acting like one. This is not difficult. Report the news fairly or suffer the consequences.
It’s an absolute testament to the strength of character of the USA political right that we’re not burning down news rooms all over the country. Their behavior has been atrocious since Trump’s election and can only be considered a coordinated pogrom of high treason against the body politic of this nation at this point.
I might wonder about the relatively faint performance of conservative news, however. For some reason the lefties dominate the public eyeshare by something like an order of magnitude. Maybe it’s like people are fascinated in horror watching train wrecks.
President Trump is not anti press.
NY Times lies again.
NY Times are The Enemy of the People.
BBC is an enemy of the people. won’t accept Brexit; won’t accept Donald Trump was elected to be President.
can’t get more undemocratic than The Beeb.
in the middle of the article posted, they link to this, which has nothing whatsoever to do with Donald Trump:
3 May: BBC: Reality Check: World Press Freedom Day: Are journalists increasingly under attack?
By Soraya Auer
More than 2,500 journalists have been killed since 1990, and media rights groups warn, on World Press Freedom Day on 3 May, of a growing trend of journalists being targeted for the work they do...
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-43961380:
and this:
29 Jul: BBC: Why Donald Trump attacks the media
VIDEO: Fox v MSNBC: How the news divides America
The president wants positive news coverage for himself and critical coverage of his adversaries. “Fake news”, “enemy of the people” and all the other media-bashing is simply a means to achieving that goal.
In sport, the strategy is called “working the referee”. It’s the same idea in politics - but the stakes are much higher...
There’s more to it than that, however. Mr Trump doesn’t just want the referee’s “calls” to go his way. His goal is to question the reliability the referee entirely. And it’s working - at least among the president’s most loyal supporters...
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45001525
17 Feb 2017: BBC: ‘Enemies of the people’: Trump remark echoes history’s worst tyrants
Being branded an “enemy of the people” by the likes of Stalin or Mao brought at best suspicion and stigma, at worst hard labour or death.
Now the chilling phrase - which is at least as old as Emperor Nero, who was called “hostis publicus”, enemy of the public, by the Senate in AD 68 - is making something of a comeback...
The reaction was swift. “Every president is irritated by the news media. No other president would have described the media as ‘the enemy of the people’”, tweeted David Axelrod, a former adviser to President Barack Obama.
Gabriel Sherman, national affairs editor at New York magazine, called the phrase a “chilling” example of “full-on dictator speak”.
Steve Silberman, an award-winning writer and journalist, wondered whether the remark would prompt Trump supporters to shoot at journalists.
And that might not be a far-fetched concern. Late last year, a Trump supporter opened fire in a pizza restaurant at the centre of a bizarre conspiracy theory about child abuse...
The US president’s use of “enemies of the people” raises unavoidable echoes of some of history’s most murderous dictators...(STALIN, MAO)...
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39015559
pity the British people have to fund BBC through a licence fee.
No, enemies. That’s exactly the word for it. “Acting in direct opposition to your own rights, freedoms, way of life, etc.” Enemies.
So now the NYT is in charge of what a President may or may not say?
From the NYT 29 July:
How Trump Lost Re-election in 2020
A sneak peek at The Times’s news analysis from Nov. 4, 2020.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/29/opinion/columnists/trump-loss-re-election-2020.html
In defense of the NYT, at least it’s on the Opinion Page.
@ThonasWictor posted that Trump never called NY Slimes “enemy of the people.” He called FAKE NEWS the enemy of the people. The publisher just called his paper fake news.
The NYT literally still has a Pulitzer that was awarded to a writer of theirs who was absolutely a soviet mouthpiece.
...and with a straight face he said it as if were a bad thing? Like undeserved?
Seriously?
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They also view urbanites as too stupid to obtain an ID, a job or cross the street by themselves.
Good point; they really appeal to the bottom-feeders.
They incite violence with their own slanted reporting and then worry that being called out might result in violence against them...which would give then a great opportunity to show how it’s really right-wingers who are violent, but it would be hurting them...but it would be a great opportunity...
But they are.... They do a disservice to anyone who chooses to watch them. The misinform, mislead, focus only on the negative, outright lie in some cases... all in the name of a biased agenda. Trump is right and the media has inflicted this on themselves.
But the media labeling Trump supporters as Nazis, racists, homophobes, etc, which HAS resulted in violence against them in many instances -- THAT is OK...
Goebbels: “dont call us NAZIs!”
Perhaps a journalist at risk of life will start writing the truth
The fallacy is the term journalist. Every employee of the New York Times (aka the Old gray whore madam to presstitutes) is actually a propagandist
Rotten destructive scum based on their specific behavior.
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