US newsrooms to Trump: We’re not enemies of the people

TIL Desk/World/New York/ The nation’s newsrooms are pushing back against President Donald Trump with a coordinated series of newspaper editorials condemning his attacks on “fake news” and suggestion that journalists are the enemy. The Boston Globe invited newspapers across the country to stand up for the press with editorials today, and several began appearing online a day earlier.

Nearly 350 news organisations have pledged to participate. In St Louis, the Post-Dispatch called journalists “the truest of patriots.” A Chicago based newspaper said it believed most Americans know that Trump is talking nonsense.

Another newspaper said it hoped Trump would stop, “but we’re not holding our breath .” “Rather, we hope all the president’s supporters will recognize what he’s doing – manipulating reality to get what he wants,” the North Carolina newspaper said.