The White House’s ‘media offender’ list will fizzle. The reporting won’t.
We’re back after the Thanksgiving break, and what did we miss?
President Donald Trump attacking the media. Again.
With each passing day, Trump and his administration get more and more brazen in their all-out assault on the press. Trump has gone after the media with threats, lawsuits, bans, more threats, more lawsuits and insults. Lots and lots of insults.
Trump has always had a habit of name-calling organizations and reporters who have the temerity to ask him fair, but tough questions. He calls outlets “fake news” and then gets even more personal when it comes to reporters, often calling them “terrible” or “nasty.” Just recently, he referred to a female reporter as “piggy” while telling her to be quiet when she asked a legitimate question about the Epstein files.
Related Knowledge Center: The White House vs. the press
Whether it’s the Des Moines Register’s publication of an unfavorable election poll, a routine edit of a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris, or the Associated Press’s decision in its authoritative stylebook to continue to use “Gulf of Mexico,” Donald Trump and the White House have used executive authority and legal reprisals in an effort to punish and suppress press coverage that runs contrary to the administration’s preferred narratives.
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