Trump Amps Up Media Attacks After 350 Editorials Speak Their Truth
It takes the courage of one’s convictions to speak out, especially against the vindictive occupant of America’s Oval Office, and 350 newspapers demonstrated that courage by publishing editorials Thursday decrying President Trump’s repeated attacks on the media.
Naturally, the schoolyard bully can’t leave this alone:
The Boston Globe, which was sold to the the Failing New York Times for 1.3 BILLION DOLLARS (plus 800 million dollars in losses & investment), or 2.1 BILLION DOLLARS, was then sold by the Times for 1 DOLLAR. Now the Globe is in COLLUSION with other papers on free press. PROVE IT!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 16, 2018
There is nothing that I would want more for our Country than true FREEDOM OF THE PRESS. The fact is that the Press is FREE to write and say anything it wants, but much of what it says is FAKE NEWS, pushing a political agenda or just plain trying to hurt people. HONESTY WINS!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 16, 2018
The New York Times notes that Trump’s first tweet contained a factual error; the Times Company paid $1.1 billion for the Boston Globe and other properties decades ago, then sold them for $70 million in 2013. But an editorial at Investor’s Business Daily Wednesday was on Trump’s side, and even used the same charged c-word in its headline:
“Editorial Collusion By Dozens Of Newspapers Proves Trump’s Point: The Media Are Biased.”
It calls the move by the newspapers (CNN lists some of those that participated) a “political stunt” that shows the papers are more interested in pushing a left-wing agenda than actually informing the public.
At Politico, Jack Shafer says the plan “played right into Trump’s hands” and will surely backfire, despite Trump’s attacks on the press being truly “alarming” and deserving of a rebuttal.
At NOLA.com Tim Morris echoes that, noting that the Times-Picayune editorial board did not participate because…
“…we believe a local news organization’s voice should be independent. … Having 350 editorial voices saying the same thing on the same day just seems to prove Trump’s point.”
I’ve no doubt that some of those papers who criticized the actions of the 350 are Right-leaning, if not out and out Trumpers, excepting Politico which, from time to time, takes a Trump friendly approach, which is confusing to its readers. The fact is those hundreds of newspapers spoke the truth, and no amount of whining by Trump supporters will change that. What do you think?
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This guy just can’t let anything go. Nothing. What a pig he is, and WHEN WILL WE BE SHED OF HIM??????