Journalists are not the enemy: The Boston Globe’s editorial board publishes its response to President Trump’s attack on the media.
More than 350 news outlets joined the Globe’s move to support a free press.
“A central pillar of President Trump’s politics is a sustained assault on the free press,” writes the Globe. “Journalists are not classified as fellow Americans, but rather ‘the enemy of the people.’ This relentless assault on the free press has dangerous consequences.”
Media mount attack on “fake news” charges.
Cleve R. Wootson Jr. writes the Boston Globe urges American news groups to respond to the president’s scorn of the press.
“The rally calls for the opinion writers that staff newspaper editorial boards to produce independent opinion pieces about Trump’s attacks on the media,” he writes. The Associated Press reports that 70 news organizations agreed.
Enemy of the people: Ken Thomas writes about the impact of President Trump’s attack on the U.S. media as “fake news.”
Thomas quotes Prof. Jay Rosen saying, “It’s the erosion of the common world of fact. If we can’t agree on what the facts are, if there are no facts because they are in endless dispute, there is no accountability.”
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