Almost 350 news outlets to publish editorials denouncing Trump's 'dirty war'

[Origanalist]

Almost 350 news outlets to publish editorials denouncing Trump's 'dirty war' on press


Participation comes after a push organized by the Boston Globe to run coordinated editorials against Trump’s attacks on the media

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/15/trump-press-editorials-defence-fake-news-media-attacks-us#img-1

Nearly 350 news organizations are set to publish editorials on Thursday pushing back against Donald Trump’s attacks on the media and defending freedom of the press.

The publications are participating in a push organized by the Boston Globe to run coordinated editorials denouncing what the paper called a “dirty war against the free press”.

As of Wednesday morning, 343 publications had pledged to participate, said Marjorie Pritchard, the Globe’s deputy managing editor overseeing the opinion page.

The Guardian has also joined the effort and has published an editorial alongside outlets around the United States.

“Donald Trump is not the first US president to attack the press or to feel unfairly treated by it. But he is the first who appears to have a calculated and consistent policy of undermining, delegitimising and even endangering the press’s work,” the Guardian’s editorial says.

Trump has routinely attacked the press as a whole as well as individual reporters, labeling factually accurate reports “fake news” and calling the news media “the enemy of the people”.

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The Globe’s opinion page put out the call for a mass response last week.


“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 pitch to editors said.

The hundreds of newspapers and sites participating include the New York Times, Chicago Sun Times, Philadelphia Inquirer and Miami Herald. A host of smaller papers from cities and towns around the country are also joining in.

continued.. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/15/trump-press-editorials-defence-fake-news-media-attacks-us

[tod evans]

The sounds of a dying industry....

:D

[pcosmar]

350 media attacks on the sitting President..

Not reporting news,, Attacks on the Elected President just for being elected..

[Origanalist]

350 media attacks on the sitting President..

Not reporting news,, Attacks on the Elected President just for being elected..

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dj9zv5jVAAAFeqo.jpg

[Swordsmyth]

The sounds of a dying industry....

:D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA0kNGaYrtg


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv_eOMyhtms

https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse2.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP. jMHt9ngRLeUR0OXDm1XwFgHaLA%26pid%3D15.1&f=1

[Aratus]

The BOSTON GLOBE has been purchased by the NEW YORK TIMEs.

This is being run out of the "big apple" and not beantown, duckies!

[pcosmar]

The BOSTON GLOBE has been purchased by the NEW YORK TIMEs.

This is being run out of the "big apple" and not beantown, duckies!

And the punks in Portland are run out of Fusion Centers,, with SPLC assistance..

but Media ain't gonna tell you that.

[Jamesiv1]

Fug em.

I predict Trump comes out stronger than before.

[donnay]

Operation Mockingbird

If more people ignored the fake CIA media they would lose in the end.

[Aratus]

Years ago, when both the Boston Globe and the New York Times printed up
the PENTAGON PAPERs, two different groups of people made those decisions.
Today, one small group of people is making THE decision here. Small nitpick.

[Dr.3D]

And all this time, I thought people were calling libertarians, libtards.

This gets so confusing....

[phill4paul]

The sounds of a dying industry....

:D

Exactly. Weren't that anti-war minded when Obama was the POTUS now were they. Pay attention to the publishers. They will all be CIA created enterprises.

[Jamesiv1]

And all this time, I thought people were calling libertarians, libtards.

This gets so confusing....
Libtards are the Hollywood leftwing lunatics that hire armed security guards to escort them to the anti-gun rally.

And the people that champion said libtards.

[Aratus]

Lets rephrase this. Do think of BUD. Think of Bud-Lite.
Think of COORs. Think of Coors-Lite. Picture the auld
Left-Wing Bawwstun Globe as being like a microbrew
that is more earthy, but it now is either Coors-Lite or
Bud-Lite becuz decisions now must loop thru NYC!!!

[Aratus]

Technically, 349 papers are going to be on the same basic page, not 350! (my nitpick)

[spudea]

what policy established by the Trump administration is undermining the free press?

[Dr.3D]

So I have to wonder, according to the media, who is supposed to call them out when they are delivering fake news?

When I was a kid in school, I was told, "the United States is better than the Soviet Union, because their media is government controlled and ours isn't."

I grow up only to find our media is also controlled by somebody and if it's not the government, then who but some folks with money, trying to control the government?

[Aratus]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^THIS^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

[Jamesiv1]

So I have to wonder, according to the media, who is supposed to call them out when they are delivering fake news?

When I was a kid in school, I was told, "the United States is better than the Soviet Union, because their media is government controlled and ours isn't."

I grow up only to find our media is also controlled by somebody and if it's not the government, then who but some folks with money, trying to control the government?
Another feather in Trump's hat. With one well-delivered snark he started the fake news ball a-rolling.

[Aratus]

Technically, 349 papers are going to be on the same basic page, not 350! (my nitpick)

Or is it 348 papers, not 349?

The NY Times is the Boston Globe.
1 + 1 = 1 and not TEW today.

[Aratus]

Almost 350 news outlets to publish editorials denouncing Trump's 'dirty war' on press


Participation comes after a push organized by the Boston Globe to run coordinated editorials against Trump’s attacks on the media

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/15/trump-press-editorials-defence-fake-news-media-attacks-us#img-1

Nearly 350 news organizations are set to publish editorials on Thursday pushing back against Donald Trump’s attacks on the media and defending freedom of the press.

The publications are participating in a push organized by the Boston Globe to run coordinated editorials denouncing what the paper called a “dirty war against the free press”.

As of Wednesday morning, 343 publications had pledged to participate, said Marjorie Pritchard, the Globe’s deputy managing editor overseeing the opinion page.

The Guardian has also joined the effort and has published an editorial alongside outlets around the United States.

“Donald Trump is not the first US president to attack the press or to feel unfairly treated by it. But he is the first who appears to have a calculated and consistent policy of undermining, delegitimising and even endangering the press’s work,” the Guardian’s editorial says.

Trump has routinely attacked the press as a whole as well as individual reporters, labeling factually accurate reports “fake news” and calling the news media “the enemy of the people”.

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The Globe’s opinion page put out the call for a mass response last week.


“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 pitch to editors said.

The hundreds of newspapers and sites participating include the New York Times, Chicago Sun Times, Philadelphia Inquirer and Miami Herald. A host of smaller papers from cities and towns around the country are also joining in.

continued.. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/15/trump-press-editorials-defence-fake-news-media-attacks-us

Let's pop the gourmet popcorn...

[kpitcher]

what policy established by the Trump administration is undermining the free press?

The president saying "much of our news media is indeed the enemy of the people".

I applaud the papers, we can't pick and choose which of the Bill of Rights we want to protect, it's all or nothing. Yes the press has screwed up badly over the years. We clearly saw how the MSM gladly accepted everything the Bush Jr. admin fed them on Iraq other than a few exceptions. I will never forgive the MSM for their treatment of Ron Paul, especially Fox for going out of their way to shaft him on results. However I think they should continue to exist and question everything. Too bad investigative journalism isn't what it used to be.

[Swordsmyth]

The president saying "much of our news media is indeed the enemy of the people".

I applaud the papers, we can't pick and choose which of the Bill of Rights we want to protect, it's all or nothing. Yes the press has screwed up badly over the years. We clearly saw how the MSM gladly accepted everything the Bush Jr. admin fed them on Iraq other than a few exceptions. I will never forgive the MSM for their treatment of Ron Paul, especially Fox for going out of their way to shaft him on results. However I think they should continue to exist and question everything. Too bad investigative journalism isn't what it used to be.

Trump is right and it is not a violation of the 1st Amendment to call the FakeNews enemies of the people, get back to me when he actually abridges freedom of the press.

[Wooden Indian]

The president saying "much of our news media is indeed the enemy of the people".

I applaud the papers, we can't pick and choose which of the Bill of Rights we want to protect, it's all or nothing.

I've seen two posts from you this fine eventide. The first is your argument for the Tranny Govenor and now this... applauding the "papers" (AKA our Corrupt and Evil to The Core MSM).

I don't think I care for the cut of yer jib, mista.

[ThePaleoLibertarian]

Nothing shows the legitimacy of the legacy media like hundreds of articles all saying the exact same thing! :up:

[Origanalist]

Nothing shows the legitimacy of the legacy media like hundreds of articles all saying the exact same thing! :up:

Exactly! They can't all be wrong, can they? :smirking:

[CaptUSA]

Exactly! They can't all be wrong, can they? :smirking:

They don't call it "programming" for nuthin'.

[Anti Federalist]

This is hilarious.

The Monolithic State Media created Donald Trump, by giving him, what amounted to, free press, in the run up to 2016, in what is now recognized as a monolithic effort to set up a "ringer" candidate to be easily knocked over by Hillary.

They systematically ignored and mocked Ron and Rand and others, who presented a clear alternative to Trump and to the same old same old establishment line politicians.

And then he wins, and the press responds to complaints of being monolithically opposed to Trump for the last two years, by?

Engaging in monolithic opposition to Trump.

Assholes...be careful what you wish for.

Hope they all go bankrupt.

[Origanalist]

This is hilarious.

The Monolithic State Media created Donald Trump, by giving him, what amounted to, free press, in the run up to 2016, in what is now recognized as a monolithic effort to set up a "ringer" candidate to be easily knocked over by Hillary.

They systematically ignored and mocked Ron and Rand and others, who presented a clear alternative to Trump and to the same old same old establishment line politicians.

And then he wins, and the press responds to complaints of being monolithically opposed to Trump for the last two years, by?

Engaging in monolithic opposition to Trump.

Assholes...be careful what you wish for.

Hope they all go bankrupt.

Too big to fail? How long until we hear calls for bailouts by leftist politicians?

[Origanalist]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DkrH0z8U0AACZLe.jpg

[juleswin]

The biggest and longest active LARP event is going on in our lifetime, the media, the political parties are playing it and the voters have no clue what is going on. How sad :( This is historical and if you are lucky enough to understand it, the entertainment value is limitless. Cancel your cable and streaming subscription cos the drama here is simply amazing :clap:

[spudea]

The president saying "much of our news media is indeed the enemy of the people".

I applaud the papers, we can't pick and choose which of the Bill of Rights we want to protect, it's all or nothing. Yes the press has screwed up badly over the years. We clearly saw how the MSM gladly accepted everything the Bush Jr. admin fed them on Iraq other than a few exceptions. I will never forgive the MSM for their treatment of Ron Paul, especially Fox for going out of their way to shaft him on results. However I think they should continue to exist and question everything. Too bad investigative journalism isn't what it used to be.

So he is merely expressing an opinion which all American's have a free speech right to do. There is no government policy undermining the free press. And they constantly misquote him, he says its the FAKE NEWS media that is the enemy of the people.

[kpitcher]

I've seen two posts from you this fine eventide. The first is your argument for the Tranny Govenor and now this... applauding the "papers" (AKA our Corrupt and Evil to The Core MSM).

I don't think I care for the cut of yer jib, mista.
because I'm alright with people standing uo for the freedom of press and their own personal liberty concerning their own bodies?

That's OK, hang around Libertarians longer and you may come around.

[Ender]

This is hilarious.

The Monolithic State Media created Donald Trump, by giving him, what amounted to, free press, in the run up to 2016, in what is now recognized as a monolithic effort to set up a "ringer" candidate to be easily knocked over by Hillary.

They systematically ignored and mocked Ron and Rand and others, who presented a clear alternative to Trump and to the same old same old establishment line politicians.

And then he wins, and the press responds to complaints of being monolithically opposed to Trump for the last two years, by?

Engaging in monolithic opposition to Trump.

$#@!s...be careful what you wish for.

Hope they all go bankrupt.

IMHPOV this all just another ruse to take everyone's eye off the mark.

We'll all be yelling about Trump/fake news, leftists/right-ists, progressives/neocons, while the last vestige of freedom is squeezed out of the country with nobody noticing. In fact with so-called liberty lovers applauding.

To paraphrase Jefferson:

"If a nation expects to be ignorant & free then that nation expects what never was and never will be.

For where the press is free and every man can read, all will be safe."

[AuH20]

It's not free press. It's never been. It's a high priced conduit for our intelligence agencies and the various sociological 'think tanks'.

[thoughtomator]

The very fact of coordinated unanimity among so many papers is hard proof that they have no genuine independence and are reading from a script that someone else is providing to them. And it's not that hard to come up with a fairly narrow list of who those someone elses might be.

[spudea]

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[AuH20]

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He's right. It's all orchestrated from above. There is little to no editorial freedom, assuming you the actual attribution and facts.