N.Y. Times Joins Hundreds of Newspapers in Combating Trump’s Attacks on Journalists
The New York Times joined hundreds of newspapers on Wednesday in denouncing President Donald Trump’s assertion that journalists are the “enemy of the people,” calling that moniker “dangerous, period.”
“News reporters and editors are human, and make mistakes. Correcting them is core to our job. But insisting that truths you don’t like are ‘fake news’ is dangerous to the lifeblood of democracy. And calling journalists the ‘enemy of the people’ is dangerous, period,” the paper’s editorial board wrote in an opinion piece published Wednesday.
