MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “More than 300 U.S. newspapers have pledged to run editorials on Thursday [8-16-18] defending freedom of the press in response to President Donald Trump calling some media organizations enemies of the American people. The Boston Globe organized the editorial push, which was joined by the New York Times and a number of smaller newspapers, including some in states that Trump won during the 2016 presidential election…The publication of the editorials follows similar criticism of Trump by a number of public figures over the issue of press freedom. 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 Kansas City Star, in Missouri which Trump won in the 2016 presidential election, in its editorial also compared Trump’s comments on the media to Stalin’s silencing of his critics. And it took issue with the term ‘fake news.’”
–Alex Dobuzinskis, “Newspaper editorials across U.S. rebuke Trump for attacks on media,” Reuters, August 15, 2018 8:17 pm