"Members of the news media are increasingly working together as they try to turn up the heat on President Trump's White House.
"On Thursday, more than 100 newspapers around the country are set to publish editorials in a coordinated push back against Trump’s repeated complaints of “fake news” and his remark that many in the press are the “enemy of the people."
"The Boston Globe initiated the campaign, and contacted local and national papers around the country to get them to join the effort.
“ 'We have some big newspapers, but the majority are from smaller markets, all enthusiastic about standing up to Trump's assault on journalism,” Boston Globe’s deputy editorial page editor Marjorie Pritchard told CNN on Saturday.
"But coordination within the press is going beyond the staging of op-eds. Liberal New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman suggested last week that the media should work together on a new way to cover Trump's mega-rallies, where the president often ridicules reporters who are collectively covering the event, usually in an elevated pen so that cameras can get a clear shot.
“ 'No question that the press should not allow itself to be props at Trump’s rallies, and that can be dealt with by using a single pool camera that feeds all the networks, or reporters just sitting among the rally attendees, not in a special pen,” wrote Friedman." . . .
"Things were not always thus.
“ 'We seem to recall that the economy was stagnating in 2016 after the weakest recovery from a recession since the Great Depression,” the IBD editorial noted. “In fact, The New York Times itself described Obama’s economy this way in August 2016: ‘For three quarters in a row, the growth rate of the economy has hovered around a mere 1 percent,” the IBD editorial recalled. “In the last quarter of 2015 and the first quarter of 2016, the economy expanded at feeble annual rates of 0.9 percent and 0.8 percent, respectively.”
"The editorial also cited similar coverage at CBS News." . . .
Unfake the News: Mainstream Media Glorifies Violent Antifa Protests . . . “'Unfake the News” is a Daily Caller program dedicated to debunking the mainstream media narratives that dominate our news cycle.
"That’s where TheDC’s Vince Coglianese steps in to cut through the PC bull. Each week, Vince takes a closer look at how cable news outlets are telling the top story and then gives you his own unadulterated take." . . .
White House: Media Dividing Our Country More than Donald Trump . . . “It wasn’t until this individual started to negatively attack this President and this administration, and try to tear this entire place down, that she received the type of platform and rollout that she’s getting,” she said.
"Sanders said it was “sad” that Manigault-Newman embarked on a “self-serving” media blitz, noting that she was never critical of the president when she was in the administration. She pointed the media to positive economic statistics, reforms on school choice, and prison reform as proof that Trump was helping African-Americans.
“ 'This is a President who is governing to help all Americans,” she said. “And I think we’d all be better off if the media gave that just a little bit more attention.' ”
MRC "More than 100 newspapers have promised to publish editorials Thursday condemning Trump’s anti-media rhetoric. All while conveniently ignoring the hundreds of left-wing Antifa idiots who spent the weekend assaulting journalists in the street, vandalizing their equipment and trying to destroy their cameras."
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