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    More than 100 US newspapers plan editorials decrying Trump media attacks

    https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/aug/13/more-than-100-us-newspapers-plan-editorials-decrying-trump-media-attacks

    More than 100 US newspapers plan editorials decrying Trump media attacks

    Boston Globe rallies outlets across the country for 16 August action, saying president’s ‘dirty war on free press must end’

    Kate Lyons

    Mon 13 Aug 2018 06.55 BST
    Last modified on Mon 13 Aug 2018 17.40 BST

    More than 100 newspapers across the US will publish coordinated editorial responses to president Donald Trump’s repeated attacks on the media on Thursday.

    The campaign has been organised by the Boston Globe, whose editorial staff approached news outlets across the country asking them to write an editorial denouncing the president’s hostility to the media.
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    “This dirty war on the free press must end,” said the appeal.

    “Publications, whatever their politics, could make a powerful statement by standing together in the common defence of their profession and the vital role it plays in government for and by the people.”

    As of Saturday, more than 100 publications had signed up to the campaign, Marjorie Pritchard, the Globe’s deputy editorial page editor, told CNN.

    The publications include large metropolitan dailies like the Houston Chronicle, Miami Herald and Denver Post through to small weekly newspapers.

    Each newspaper will publish their own editorial in their own words on Thursday.

    “We propose to publish an editorial on August 16 on the dangers of the administration’s assault on the press and ask others to commit to publishing their own editorials on the same date,” the appeal said.
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    “Our words will differ. But at least we can agree that such attacks are alarming.”

    The campaign has been supported by the American Society of News Editors.

    Trump regularly lashes out at news outlets and individual reporters for stories he does not like, accusing them of spreading “fake news”.

    The president has come under fire for repeatedly calling the press “the enemy of the people”, including from the outgoing UN human rights commissioner Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, who told the Guardian Trump’s anti-press rhetoric was “very close to incitement to violence”.

    “We began to see a campaign against the media … that could have potentially, and still can, set in motion a chain of events which could quite easily lead to harm being inflicted on journalists just going about their work and potentially some self-censorship,” Zeid said.

    The tensions have been especially acute at Trump’s rallies, where his supporters often jeer at, curse and harass reporters working in a closed-off media pen, sometimes with the apparent support of the president.

    Earlier this month, after being loudly heckled at a Trump rally in Florida, CNN’s Jim Acosta asked White House press secretary Sarah Sanders to confirm that she did not think the press were the “enemy of the people”. Sanders refused to give Acosta an answer.

    Last month, Trump met with the publisher of the New York Times to discuss the president’s labelling of the press the “enemy of the people”. The president said it had been a “very good meeting”, but just hours later he returned to Twitter to launch a scathing attack on “anti-Trump haters in the dying newspaper industry”.

    “The failing New York Times and the Amazon Washington Post do nothing but write bad stories even on very positive achievements,” Trump tweeted. “And they will never change!”

    #2
    Trump's attacks on the media, and the FBI are clear attempts to cover up, silence critics and obstruct justice.

    Trump is a classic demagogue.

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      #3
      The MSM needs no protection. If they are under attack its for good reason. Try a little more diversity in reporting and you might find less threatened.

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        #4
        Oh cry me a river. Useless one sided reporting it’s not news it’s a view point.

        Same in canada gay boy can do no wrong.

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          #5

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            #6
            chuck Chuck, you show an amazing capacity for what you call tolerance.

            So, do you have tolerance for pedophiles?

            Any tolerance?

            Even just a wee bit of tolerance?

            Or do you perhaps think that they should be outed and dealt with?

            Or do you think they should be "normalized"? Treated as a "disorder" that should be studied further until psychologists develop science on it?

            Or seen as misunderstood?

            Or maybe a type of diversity that has yet to gain mainstream acceptance?

            If you now think that it is not an acceptable practice, are you willing to revisit your current view and become tolerate of pedophilia if/when it becomes normalized in, oh, about 5 - 10 years?

            Edit: I presume that you are not a pedophile. Because if you are then that could skew your response.
            Last edited by burnt; Aug 13, 2018, 15:41.

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              #7
              Most Americans couldn't care less about what these propaganda rags have to say. Many Canadians, including myself couldn't care less as well.

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                #8
                Originally posted by macdon02 View Post
                the graph seems incomplete since each of the institution's ratings don't equal anything close to 100%.

                Where is the "some" and "very little" portions of each institution's rating? I guess we have to assume how much of each there is.

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                  #9
                  The media colluding with each other, to print anti Trump stories on Tuesday,,,,,just another day at the office !

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                    #10
                    Pretty much every media new outlet is summed up in the very Jordan Peterson video clip from an earlier post .
                    “So what you really mean is ??? “ lol lol

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                      #11
                      So most of you only support the media that agrees with your point of view? I am not surprised that most of you are in Trump's camp.

                      Do you also agree that Presidents and Prime Ministers should be allowed to obstruct justice and are above the law?
                      Last edited by chuckChuck; Aug 14, 2018, 07:46.

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                        #12
                        Originally posted by chuckChuck View Post
                        So most of you only support the media that agrees with your point of view? I am not surprised that most of you are in Trump's camp.

                        Do you also agree that Presidents and Prime Ministers should be allowed to obstruct justice and are above the law?
                        Are you referring to KADR's lawyer becoming a judge?

                        Seems a little too coincidental?????

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                          #13
                          Originally posted by bucket View Post
                          Are you referring to KADR's lawyer becoming a judge?

                          Seems a little too coincidental?????
                          Show me where anyone besides the Government of Canada broke Canadian law in the Kahdr case or by his lawyer becoming a judge?

                          The supreme court ruled that the Government of Canada broke the law when dealing with Kahdr. That is why he was paid compensation.

                          You probably believe the Supreme Court is corrupt as well! LOL

                          So you have no problem with President's and other leaders obstructing justice? I guess as long as he is your guy no problem! LOL

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                            #14
                            Kadr had no way of ever making 10 million in his lifetime....he was a brainwashed teenager...and Canada did nothing wrong other than paying this terrorist money....

                            No different than stupid Canadians going to saudi Arabia and breaking the law....

                            So our canadian laws protect terrorists...

                            **** I don't know how I let myself get dragged into these conversations...

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                              #15
                              Originally posted by chuckChuck View Post
                              So most of you only support the media that agrees with your point of view? I am not surprised that most of you are in Trump's camp.

                              Do you also agree that Presidents and Prime Ministers should be allowed to obstruct justice and are above the law?
                              Originally posted by burnt View Post
                              chuck Chuck, you show an amazing capacity for what you call tolerance.

                              So, do you have tolerance for pedophiles?

                              Any tolerance?

                              Even just a wee bit of tolerance?

                              Or do you perhaps think that they should be outed and dealt with?

                              Or do you think they should be "normalized"? Treated as a "disorder" that should be studied further until psychologists develop science on it?

                              Or seen as misunderstood?

                              Or maybe a type of diversity that has yet to gain mainstream acceptance?

                              If you now think that it is not an acceptable practice, are you willing to revisit your current view and become tolerate of pedophilia if/when it becomes normalized in, oh, about 5 - 10 years?

                              Edit: I presume that you are not a pedophile. Because if you are then that could skew your response.
                              Why don't you want to respond to this question chuckChuck? Did your advisors tell you to ignore it, perhaps?

                              You know how the media will react to you if you answer these questions?

                              Yup, there's the problem with the media.

                              Your silence says more than you could ever say with words.

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