U.S News Outlets published editorials against President Trump

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A large number of U.S news outlets have published their editorials in order to hit back at the U.S President Donald Trump due to his repeated attacks on the media. The recent move is a combined response to tirades of Trump against Fake News and his comments about journalists as he called journalists the Enemies of the American People. The Boston Globe urged newspapers including large and small groups to defend the principle of a free press in their editorials on Thursday. Marjorie Pritchard, op-ed editor at The Boston Globe said that at least 350 organizations have agreed to participate. Some of the editorials started appearing online a day early. North Carolina newspaper The Fayetteville Observer said it hoped “all the president’s supporters will recognize what he’s doing because Trump is manipulating reality to get what he needs.

The St Louis Post-Dispatch called journalists “the truest of patriots”, while the Chicago Sun-Times said it was confident the majority of US citizens did not share Trump’s views. “We firmly believe most Americans know that Trump is talking nonsense, whatever they might tell the pollsters,” the Chicago paper’s editorial stated. “We firmly believe they understand that a free society is impossible without a free press”. The New York Times, meanwhile, made a plea to support the local press. “If you haven’t already, please subscribe to your local papers. Praise them when you think they’ve done a good job and criticize them when you think they could do better. We’re all in this together”. Not all newspapers support the coordinated action, however. The Wall Street Journal said it would not be participating and its columnist James Freeman said the idea went against the spirit of independence that editorial boards were claiming to uphold.