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Hundreds Of Newspapers Denounce Trump's Attacks On Media In Coordinated Editorials
WBUR ^ | 8/16/18 | James Doubek

Posted on 08/16/2018 3:46:24 AM PDT by Libloather

More than 300 news publications across the country are joining together to defend the role of a free press and denounce President Trump's ongoing attacks on the news media in coordinated editorials publishing Thursday, according a tally by The Boston Globe.

The project was spearheaded by editorial staff at the Globe, who write, "This relentless assault on the free press has dangerous consequences. We asked editorial boards from around the country – liberal and conservative, large and small – to join us today to address this fundamental threat in their own words."

Editorials are typically written by opinion writers and are considered separate from organizations' news coverage. NPR, for example, has a separate "opinion" category.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: defundnpr; defundpbs; dnctalkingpoints; editorial; media; mediawingofthednc; msm; newspapers; npr; partisanmediashills; pbs; presstitutes; smearmachine; trump; trumpmedia
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Thirty-one journalists have been attacked so far in 2018, according to the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker.

How many of those were investigating the First Felons?

Watched some PMSNBC last night. Oh, they're in full election attack mode alright. I've never seen anything like it. But, that's what socialists do.

1 posted on 08/16/2018 3:46:24 AM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Collusion!!!!!!

Somebody call Mueller!


2 posted on 08/16/2018 3:49:18 AM PDT by Redleg Duke (The Democrats in California want another civil war over cheap labor!)
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To: Libloather

There’s no proof that the media operates in a bubble of bias and coordinated talking points. Oh wait...


3 posted on 08/16/2018 3:49:43 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (In God We Trust, In Trump We MAGA)
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To: Libloather

Weren’t all of these journalists attacked by Democrats or progressives? I don’t think any of them were attacked by actual conservatives.

or was the old lady who shook her fist at Acosta that much of a threat?


4 posted on 08/16/2018 3:50:20 AM PDT by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: Libloather

Hundreds of papers owned by how many companies?

Just curious.


5 posted on 08/16/2018 3:51:16 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: Libloather

What a pathetic and funny leftist ploy!

Showing how the media is unbiased by being leftist and biased.

The thugs are showing their totalitarian underpinnings,

and they don’t even realize it!

Time to start the giggles and memes.


6 posted on 08/16/2018 3:52:55 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: Libloather

Personally it’s ‘funny’ when the media gets all butt-hurt when someone who they attacked first responds back at them.

Just a bunch of cry-baby losers. As far as I care to think about them.


7 posted on 08/16/2018 3:54:36 AM PDT by The Working Man
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I wonder if there is anyone on any editorial staff of any of those newspapers who has even a smidgeon of ability to introspect. The news media has been spinning and outright lying for decades, and now they want us to believe that the man we elected in part to call them out is the problem? On the contrary, shenanigans like what they are pulling today just reconfirm how biased and untrustworthy they are, and how correct Trump is.


8 posted on 08/16/2018 3:57:31 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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For years Limbaugh and others have been talking about Leftist Media coordination.

Best thing that Rush Limbaugh could do is play all the coordinated media echoes tapes that he has devised and collected throughout the years. Play them over and over, and have Fox and others play them too.

Over and over. Each one of the echoes of our leftist totalitarian controlled press.

Play them over and over and laugh at them.

They are pathetic.

Wouldn’t hurt for the White House Press secretary to do a couple of minutes of playing the echoes too.

Yeah! That is their new name....THE ECHOES!!

The Main Stream Media are today known as THE ECHOES!!!


9 posted on 08/16/2018 3:58:05 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: exDemMom

FWIW, I think this may be less about Trump and more about trying to goose circulation figs circling the bowl.


10 posted on 08/16/2018 3:59:17 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: mewzilla

Excellent point.


11 posted on 08/16/2018 4:03:04 AM PDT by Yardstick
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To: Libloather

Hundreds of Newspapers! Oh no! That means thousands of readers! This is a disaster.


12 posted on 08/16/2018 4:03:09 AM PDT by 728b (Never cry over something that can not cry over you.)
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To: Libloather

They do know that no one reads those things other than a few old people?


13 posted on 08/16/2018 4:03:49 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: Libloather

It’s not the media’s lies, fake news and spin. It’s what they bury that makes them enemies of the people.


14 posted on 08/16/2018 4:04:00 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (A woman's right to choose: except for rape, she can choose NOT to have sex.)
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How many original, actual facts will the Magpie Press produce?


15 posted on 08/16/2018 4:05:23 AM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (Closed for repairs)
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Editorials are typically written by opinion writers and are considered separate from organizations' news coverage.

No, the “news coverage” sections are also largely opinion pieces as well.

16 posted on 08/16/2018 4:06:13 AM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." -- M. O'Neal, USMC)
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Just wondering....is there a single paper among them that isn’t on the brink of bankruptcy?


17 posted on 08/16/2018 4:06:24 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (You Say "White Privilege"...I Say "Protestant Work Ethic")
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The project was spearheaded by editorial staff at the Globe, who write, "This relentless assault on the free press has dangerous consequences. We asked editorial boards from around the country – liberal and conservative, large and small – to join us today to address this fundamental threat in their own words."

Talk about a vast, left wing conspiracy! Will the lemmings follow the lead of the Boston Globe?

Like Communists, the Globe is incapable of acknowledging its failures to follow responsible journalism. Are they unaware that what they produce is propaganda?

If the Boston Globe was a competent, responsible place, they would be repenting of their twisted, biased and warped reporting that has become a constant drumbeat of the Democratic party.

They have nothing to offer except hate, bigotry, and twisted reporting. They are in a tailspin.

18 posted on 08/16/2018 4:07:47 AM PDT by olezip
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Hundreds Of Newspapers Denounce Trump's Attacks On Media In Coordinated Editorials

..... and the difference from any other day is.....?

19 posted on 08/16/2018 4:07:57 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The New York Times is a racist hate group. It is Propaganazism.)
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To: Chickensoup

‘Greek Chorus’ is actually closer to it. ;-)


20 posted on 08/16/2018 4:10:09 AM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is mine. Even tho physically free, Tommy's not free yet. He's still facing charges.)
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