Last month, at a news conference in Britain, he refused to call on the CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta, saying, “CNN is fake news. I don’t take questions from CNN.” A week later, the White House barred another CNN reporter, Kaitlan Collins, from attending a public appearance by President Trump in the White House Rose Garden, after she had called out questions during a photo opportunity earlier in the day.
“We’re not the enemy of the people,” Ms. Pritchard, who oversees The Globe’s opinion section, said in an interview. “We thought that a coordinated effort across the country would make a powerful statement about the importance of a free press.”
The newspapers participating in the effort include large-circulation dailies like the Houston Chronicle and the Miami Herald, as well as smaller publications like The Oakridger in Oak Ridge, Tenn., and the Griggs County Courier and Steele County Press in North Dakota.
Each newspaper will prepare its own editorial to be published Thursday.
James Bennet, the editorial page editor of The Times, cited the public stance of the newspaper’s publisher, A. G. Sulzberger, in laying out the reason for the newspaper’s participation in the initiative. “Our publisher has put a stake in the ground on this issue, and at a time when newspapers around the country are under real commercial and political pressure, we think its important to show solidarity,” Mr. Bennet said.
Last month, Mr. Trump and Mr. Sulzberger met for an off-the-record discussion at the White House on July 20. The president made the meeting public in a Twitter post more than a week later, saying they had discussed “the vast amounts of Fake News being put out by the media.” Mr. Sulzberger responded in a statement, saying that he found Mr. Trump’s language “not just divisive but increasingly dangerous.”
Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/business/media/trump-news-media-editorials.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
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