Hundreds Of Newspapers Denounce Trump's Attacks On Media In Coordinated Editorials

More than 300 news publications across the country are joining together to defend the role of a free press and denounce President Trump's ongoing attacks on the news media in coordinated editorials publishing Thursday, according a tally by The Boston Globe. “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.”

Each of the newspapers, including some in states that Trump won during the 2016 presidential election, ran an editorial, which is usually an unsigned article that reflects the opinion of an editorial board and is separate from the news and other sections in a paper. “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.”

Meanwhile, the U.S. Senate on Thursday passed a resolution with no objections stating that “the press is not the enemy of the people.”

Cognizant of heated feelings on the issue, the Globe hired extra security on Thursday, said Jane Bowman, newspaper spokeswoman. Remember the First Amendment of our Constitution

New York Post

 Hate the press all you want — we’ll keep reporting

The New York Times

 A Free Press Needs You

The Sag Harbor Express

 We Are the People

Las Vegas Sun

 Take it from the Founding Fathers: Journalists are Public Ally No. Our reporters and editors strive for fairness.”

The New York Times encouraged readers to subscribe to a local newspaper. Criticizing the news media “is entirely right,” The Times said in its own editorial. Here’s What We Really Do

Hays Free Press

 We are the people

Hillsboro Tribune

 The news isn’t ‘fake’ just because you see things differently

Idyllwild Town Crier

 Out Loud: Fake news, American institutions, and the presidency

Journal Star

 President Trump’s attacks on the press must stop

The Kansas City Star

 President Trump, we’re not ‘enemies of the people.’ End your war on our free press

The Lakeville Journal

 Perspective on truth, lies, respect and hate

McClatchy 

 President Trump, we’re not ‘enemies of the people.’ End your war on our free press

Miami Herald

 Trump, we’re not ‘enemies of the people.’ End your war on our free press

Mercury News 

 Editorial: President Trump, we are not the nation’s enemy

The New York Times

 A Free Press Needs You

New York Post

 Hate the press all you want — we’ll keep reporting

News and Tribune

 We are defined by purpose, not the president

News Herald 

 The First Amendment is first in line for a reason

Omaha World-Herald 

 Omaha World-Herald remains committed to our community and state

Orlando Sentinel and South Florida Sun Sentinel

 President Trump, the press isn’t the ‘enemy’ — it’s America’s watchdog

The Orange County Register

 The president’s dangerous dubbing of media as America’s enemy

Panama City News Herald

 We are your defense

The Post-Standard 

 Journalists are not the ‘enemy of the people’

The Plymouth Review

 This dirty war against the press must end

The Philadelphia Inquirer

 Stop the war on a free press

Queens Courier and the Ridgewood Times

 Stop attacking the press! The Boston Globe, which led and coordinated the media campaign, wrote that “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,” its editorial, entitled “Journalists are not the Enemy,” said. It said, “It’s how Joseph Stalin’s critics were marked for execution.”

 Another paper to join the campaign was the Topeka Capital-Journal which said of Trump’s attack on the media: “It’s sinister.
In coordinated editorials defending press freedom, hundreds of U.S. newspapers rebuke President Donald Trump's repeated accusations that the news media reports "fake news" and that journalists are "enemies of the people".