POTUS* got all touchy about the Boston Globe getting 300 outlets to run editorials condemning his attacks on the press.
Otherwise, his tweets featured lots of cribbing from others today (he definitely talked to Hannity) with the daily rigged witch reference.
There’s this sequence during executive time prior to the Cabinet meeting. As always, trying to figure out the ones actually authored by 45* rather than the ghosted content is an interesting challenge.
This sequence below is only interesting because of the ALL CAPS and as an attack on the Boston Globe, it is all about Trump’s dislike of a free press.
The trouble is that he makes little sense since POTUS* demonizing the press embodies the contradiction that he can’t abide dissent. And then the Trumpists made bomb threats.
Hundreds of newspapers across the country united in solidarity today and published editorials on the importance on the First Amendment.
The coordinated editorials are in response to a campaign by The Boston Globe that called on publications to condemn President Trump’s oft-repeated assertions that journalists are “the enemy of the people.”
“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,” The Globe said in its pitch to fellow newspapers.
SPJ submitted a letter to the editor of 200-plus papers, supporting their efforts. The newspapers – big and small – were joined by organizations such as the Center for Public Integrity, Washington Newspaper Publishers Association and by the president of the Society of Professional Journalists.
“The Society of Professional Journalists stands in solidarity with these newspapers and applauds their efforts to explain the importance of the work they do every day. We know that without them, the country would be a much darker, more secretive place,” wrote SPJ president Rebecca Baker.
“Journalists are trying to do a job,” read the editorial in The Mercury News and East Bay Times of San Jose, California. “We’re not trying to tear down our nation. We’re trying to strengthen it. For we believe in the foundational premise behind the First Amendment – that our nation is stronger if its people are informed.”