Trump Amps Up Media Attacks After 350 Editorials Speak Their Truth

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by Michael John Scott

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 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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5 years ago

This guy just can’t let anything go. Nothing. What a pig he is, and WHEN WILL WE BE SHED OF HIM??????

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