I heard on FoxNews Radio this morning that over 300 newspapers led by the Boston Globe ran an editorial today demanding that Trump stop interfering with freedom of the press by calling them "fake news". They also demanded that he stop calling the press the enemy of the people, according to the radio report.

I guess the best/worst part about this is that they don't get the fact that this is completely self inflicted on the part of the media.

Stop being the enemy of the American public and we'll stop calling you the enemy of the American public.

See how that works?

Link I found. Globe calls it Trumps "Dirty War" on Press.

https://www.news18.com/news/wo...n-press-1846109.html

They even reference batshit crazy Jeffy Flake in this one. A real American hero.

Link

Newspaper editorials across the US rebuke Trump for his attacks on the press

Published 1 Hour Ago Reuters

Hundreds of U.S. newspapers devoted print space on Thursday to a coordinated defense of press freedom and a rebuke of President Donald Trump for saying some media organizations are enemies of the American people.

The Boston Globe and The New York Times took part in the push along with more than 350 other newspapers of all sizes including some in states that Trump won during the 2016 presidential election.

The Globe said it coordinated publication among the newspapers and carried details of it on a database on its website.

Each paper ran an editorial, which is usually an unsigned article that reflects the opinion of an editorial board on a particular subject and is separate from the news and other sections in a paper.

The Globe's editorial accused Trump of carrying out a "sustained assault on the free press."

"The greatness of America is dependent on the role of a free press to speak the truth to the powerful," the Globe's editorial said. "To label the press 'the enemy of the people' is as un-American as it is dangerous to the civic compact we have shared for more than two centuries."

Trump has frequently criticized journalists and described news reports that contradict his opinion or policy positions as fake news.

In February 2017, for example, he tweeted that "The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @NBCNews, @ABC, @CBS, @CNN) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American people!"
The front page of the New York Times carries a picture of President Donald Trump on February 25, 2017, a day after he criticized the FBI and journalists.

The front page of the New York Times carries a picture of President Donald Trump on February 25, 2017, a day after he criticized the FBI and journalists.

His comments reflect a view held by many conservatives that most newspapers and other news outlets distort, make up or omit facts because of a bias against them.

The New York Times editorial said it is right to criticize the news media for underplaying or overplaying stories or for getting something wrong in a story.

"News reporters and editors are human, and make mistakes. Correcting them is core to our job," it said. "But insisting that truths you don't like are 'fake news' is dangerous to the lifeblood of democracy. And calling journalists the 'enemy of the people' is dangerous, period."

A representative for the White House could not immediately be reached for comment on the editorials.

In January, U.S. Senator Jeff Flake, a Republican from Arizona, said Trump had embraced the despotic language of former Soviet dictator Josef Stalin.

The media doing shit like that is EXACTLY why Trump is attacking them.

I like how they pretended to coordinate this effort when we know they coordinate agendas every day...

They're busy proving Trump's (and our) case against them.

Birds of a feather Fake News generators flock together.

So even their editorial proves that they cannot help but make up shit. They quote Trump very specifically calling out listed sources that have been forced to retract false stories. Why would a reputable source defend making up false news?

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The Globe said it coordinated publication among the newspapers and carried details of it on a database on its website.

It seems the Globe website is behind a paywall.
I was kind of curious to see the list "more than 350 other newspapers of all sizes" involved in this.

Newspapers writing bad things about Trump ?, what’s the difference?, it’s a daily thing, not really a newsworthy item. However, if they wrote positive items about him, that would be a big deal. Kind of like the late night shows not spending every moment making fun of the President and the adminastration, if they didn’t do that , they would not have a show.

Freedom of the Press?
Or Group-Think Propaganda?

300+ newspapers publish the same anti-Trump editorial today
By Thomas Lifson

Today marks another milepost on the funeral march of the American newspaper industry. Has there ever before been such a mass demonstration of self-unawareness as the collective expression of outrage this morning by the editorial boards of these ailing enterprises? Here is the editorial as it appears today in the Boston Globe , which no doubt will receive one or more journalism awards (journalists love to give each other awards for agreeing with each other) for their “courage” – as if howling mobs were outside their doors, and military vans on their way to seize the printing presses.

The editorial, indeed, raises the fear of being shut down right up front, relying on a poll supposedly indicating a public ready to send storm troopers into the nation’s newsrooms. Ginning up polls is a standard operating procedure for the media, who are well aware that by careful wording and sequencing on questions, you can shape the public response into the direction you are hoping for. In this case, Trump-haters are anxious to manufacture a purported threat to shut them down, which is something that nobody in a position of authority has ever even hinted at.

Replacing a free media with a state-run media has always been a first order of business for any corrupt regime taking over a country. Today in the United States we have a president who has created a mantra that members of the media who do not blatantly support the policies of the current US administration are the “enemy of the people.” This is one of the many lies that have been thrown out by this president, much like an old-time charlatan threw out “magic” dust or water on a hopeful crowd.

The tell here is the word “blatant.” It means unashamedly, with the direct implication that support for “the policies of the current US administration” is shameful. All of them.

The notion of a state-run media waiting in the wings is pure paranoid fantasy and a straw man argument.

You can read the whole thing yourself. It is pathetic. And so is the graphic attached to the project, with Texas apparently incontinent. Or is it the newspapers?

The great satirist Richard Terrell captures the ridiculousness of journalists who tout their “independence”:

My friend Andrew Malcolm, a veteran journalist who made his career as a foreign correspondent of the New York Times has the best commentary on the pathetic effort at Hot Air (read the whole thing):

When’s the last time you read a newspaper editorial, online or in print, and thought, “You know, that anonymous writer is right and I’ve been wrong all these years!”

Or more accurately, when’s the last time you read a newspaper editorial period? I know. I don’t read them either. And I wrote them for several of my wonderfully rewarding 40+ years in newspaper journalism.

As part of their drift off into monopoly arrogance, newspapers in general and editorial pages in particular somehow came to think and lecture like they knew better than the readers who paid good money to read their words. They were pharmacists handing out a daily dose of the news they prescribed. Not a good attitude for any business to have toward customers, especially in an era of expanding free choices.

And now these same editors and publications will again lecture the country about the dangers and evils of the man they didn’t like 646 days ago, who punches back and got elected by millions who didn’t read those lectures then either.

https://www.americanthinker.co...editorial_today.html

That's the funniest thing I've heard this week! Newspapers want to be able to say anything they want to say, but they want the President to shut the fuck up.

Only in America! No, wait, that's not right. Shit like this happened in just about every country that was ruled by an oppressive dictator.

"The Press" has been on a collusion course for quite some time now.

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"The greatness of America is dependent on the role of a free press to speak the truth to the powerful,"

They did get this (mostly) right, though. (Emphasis added)...

Not sure the greatness depends on it, but, well, that whole “speaking the truth,” however...

There are 300 newspapers still in existence?

So where were these media types when celebrities attacked the National Inquirer, The Star, and other tabloid papers?

Because the "serious" mainstream press is exactly like the tabloid press now, pure yellow journalism. Much worse. Mixed in with their propaganda support of the Democrat Party, the U.S. press is at its lowest ever. 100% garbage.

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Trump’s attack feedback loop helps explain why his faithful are following him into undemocratic territory. More than a quarter of Americans now say that “the president should have the authority to close news outlets engaged in bad behavior,” including 43 percent of Republicans. Thirteen percent of those surveyed thought that “President Trump should close down mainstream news outlets, like CNN, The Washington Post and The New York Times.”

Trump can’t outlaw the press from doing its job here, of course. But the model of inciting his supporters in this regard is how 21st-century authoritarians like Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan operate; you don’t need formal censorship to strangle a supply of information.

They compare Trump to "authoritarians like Vladimir Putin"?
An yet... it is not the MSM that is actually censored but alternative conservative voices that are silenced by Google, Facebook and YouTube.