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āNot the enemy of the peopleā: 70 news organizations will blast Trumpās attack on the media
Cleve Wootson
For most of the past 19 months, President Trumpās war of words with American news organizations has been more of a one-sided barrage ā at least according to the Boston Globeās editorial board.
Trump labeled the news media āthe enemy of the American peopleā a month after taking the oath of office. In the year that followed, a CNN analysis concluded, he used the word āfakeā ā as in āfake news,ā āfake stories,ā āfake mediaā or āfake pollsā ā more than 400 times. He once fumed, the New York Times reported, because a TV on Air Force One was tuned to CNN.
And last week, at a political rally in Pennsylvania, Trump told his audience that the media was āfake, fake disgusting news.ā
āWhatever happened to honest reporting?ā he asked the crowd. Then he pointed to a group of journalists covering the event. āThey donāt report it. They only make up stories.ā
Now, the editorial board of the Boston Globe is proposing that newspapers across the nation express their disdain for the presidentās rhetoric on Aug. 16 with the best weapon they have: their collective voice.
The rally calls for the opinion writers that staff newspaper editorial boards to produce independent opinion pieces about Trumpās attacks on the media. So far, according to the Associated Press, 70 news organizations have agreed ā from large metropolitan daily newspapers such as the Miami Herald and Denver Post to small weekly newspapers with four-digit circulation numbers.
āNot the enemy of the peopleā: 70 news organizations will blast Trumpās attack on the media
āNot the enemy of the peopleā: 70 news organizations will blast Trumpās attack on the media
Cleve Wootson
For most of the past 19 months, President Trumpās war of words with American news organizations has been more of a one-sided barrage ā at least according to the Boston Globeās editorial board.
Trump labeled the news media āthe enemy of the American peopleā a month after taking the oath of office. In the year that followed, a CNN analysis concluded, he used the word āfakeā ā as in āfake news,ā āfake stories,ā āfake mediaā or āfake pollsā ā more than 400 times. He once fumed, the New York Times reported, because a TV on Air Force One was tuned to CNN.
And last week, at a political rally in Pennsylvania, Trump told his audience that the media was āfake, fake disgusting news.ā
āWhatever happened to honest reporting?ā he asked the crowd. Then he pointed to a group of journalists covering the event. āThey donāt report it. They only make up stories.ā
Now, the editorial board of the Boston Globe is proposing that newspapers across the nation express their disdain for the presidentās rhetoric on Aug. 16 with the best weapon they have: their collective voice.
The rally calls for the opinion writers that staff newspaper editorial boards to produce independent opinion pieces about Trumpās attacks on the media. So far, according to the Associated Press, 70 news organizations have agreed ā from large metropolitan daily newspapers such as the Miami Herald and Denver Post to small weekly newspapers with four-digit circulation numbers.
āNot the enemy of the peopleā: 70 news organizations will blast Trumpās attack on the media