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Around 350 U.S. News Outlets Agree To Run Editorials Against Trump’s ‘Dirty War’
The Boston Globe's editorial push has been joined by around 350 news organizations
Nearly 350 news organizations in the U.S. have come together for a pledge to run editorials on Thursday defending freedom of the press condemning President Donald Trump’s attack on “fake news” and calling some media organizations enemies of the American people.
The Boston Globe was the first to invite newspapers across the country to stand up for the press with editorials.
“We propose to publish an editorial on August 16 on the dangers of the administration’s assault on the press and ask others to commit to publishing their own editorials on the same date,” read The Globe’s appeal calling out for a mass response from other media outlets.
“Our words will differ. But at least we can agree that such attacks are alarming,” the appeal added.
The editorial push has since been joined by the New York Times, Chicago Sun-Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Miami Herald and some other smaller newspapers, including some in states that Trump won during the 2016 presidential election.
According to Marjorie Pritchard, op-ed editor at the Globe, nearly 350 news organizations have already pledged to participate as of Wednesday morning.
In an editorial piece posted online on Wednesday, the Boston Globe accused Trump of carrying out a “sustained assault on the free press.”
“The greatness of America is dependent on the role of a free press to speak the truth to the powerful,” the Globe’s post said. “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.”
Notably, Trump has called out the U.S. media as fake several times in the past.
“The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @NBCNews, @ABC, @CBS, @CNN) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American people!” the president noted in a tweet in February.
Even during a recent rally in Pennsylvania, the U.S. President pointed out the journalists covering the event and derided them as “fake, fake, disgusting news”.
