"For the nation’s journalists, this has been a summer of unease and unrest.
On live television, a caller to C-Span threatened “to shoot” a pair of CNN journalists, Don Lemon and Brian Stelter, for their political commentary. In Tampa, Fla., rallygoers hurled vitriol at reporters covering a speech by President Trump, who later tweeted his approval. Mr. Trump added a new adjective to his nickname for the media — “the fake, fake, disgusting news” — and his press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, declined to disavow the phrase “enemy of the people.”
All of this came on top of the usual, apolitical afflictions facing news organizations, like Tronc’s move to lay off half the staff of The Daily News, decimating one of New York’s biggest papers."
Michael M. Grynbaum reports for the New York Times August 16, 2018
SEE ALSO:
"Senate Adopts Resolution Backing Free Press After Trump Attacks" (Reuters)
"Trump Says Newspapers Are ‘in Collusion’ on Championing a Free Press" (New York Times)
"A Free Press Needs You" (New York Times)
"US Newspapers To Trump: We’re Not Enemies Of The People" (AP)
"Hundreds Of Newspapers Denounce Trump's Attacks On Media In Coordinated Editorials" (NPR)
"Coast to Coast, And In Between, Local News Is Standing Up To Trump's Press Attacks" (CNN)
"Newspapers Across U.S. Rebuke Trump For Attacks On Press" (Reuters)
