Posted on 08/16/2018 2:30:07 PM PDT by Ennis85
More than 300 news outlets have launched a campaign to counter US President Donald Trump's attacks and promote a free press.
The Boston Globe made the call last week for a nationwide denouncement of the president's "dirty war" against the media, using the hashtag #EnemyOfNone.
Mr Trump has derided media reports as "fake news" and attacked journalists as "enemies of the people".
And he tweeted on Thursday: "The fake news media is the opposition party."
"It is very bad for our great country... But we are winning!"
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1030074380397752320
UN experts have warned that Mr Trump's comments about the media raise the risk of violence against journalists.
The Boston Globe had pledged to write an editorial "on the dangers of the administration's assault on the press" on 16 August, and asked others to do the same.
The initial positive response from 100 news organisations has grown closer to 350 with major US national newspapers and smaller local outlets answering the call, along with international publications like the UK newspaper The Guardian.
What have the papers said?
-Starting with the Boston Globe itself, the editorial there, headlined Journalists Are Not The Enemy, argued that a free press had been a core American principle for more than 200 years
-The New York Times chose the headline A Free Press Needs You, calling Mr Trump's attacks "dangerous to the lifeblood of democracy". It published excerpts from dozens more publications beneath
-The New York Post - a pro-Trump tabloid - answered the Globe's call by saying "Who are we to disagree?" adding: "It may be frustrating to argue that just because we print inconvenient truths doesn't mean that we're fake news, but being a journalist isn't a popularity contest. All we can do is to keep reporting." But it also said: "Will this make a difference?
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300 fifth-column leftist media oxygen thieves.
No, I’m sure he didn’t say that, despite the fact the media keeps repeating it. He said fake news media is an enemy of the people. I
f these so-called journalists are taking offense, I suppose that’s an admission that they subscribe to fake news.
open the bomb bay doors now
So how many times do these indoctrinational offsprings of the democrat party think we don’t notice the anti-Trump political cartoons, anti-Trump editorials, and anti-Trump headlines they print without a single day of pro-Trump news except hidden in back pages where they believe no one will see those articles? This stunt serves to “out” them as Trump haters - it serves no other purpose.
I dropped out subscription (Biloxi Sun Herald) years ago when McClatchy bought it out - the subscriber opinion page suddenly went super-left and normal people never got posted.
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