Tag: Trump attack on the media

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The following article by Paul Farhi and Felicia Sonmez was posted on the Washington Post website July 25 2018:

CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins said she was barred on July 25, from an open White House media event after officials objected to her questions. (Melissa Macaya /The Washington Post)

A CNN reporter said she was blocked from an open media event at the White House on Wednesday after officials objected to questions she asked President Trump at an event earlier in the day.

Reporter Kaitlan Collins said press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and communications director Bill Shine told her she was banned from a late-afternoon announcement in the Rose Garden involving Trump and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker a few hours after she sought to question Trump during a press-pool “spray” in the Oval Office.

Blocking a credentialed White House reporter from an event open to all members of the media is highly unusual and possibly unprecedented, and it marks another low point in the Trump White House’s highly strained relationship with the news media.

View the complete article here.

Trump tweets another anti-CNN cartoon — this one by the same artist who drew Clinton in blackface

The following article by Callum Borchers was posted on the Washington Post website February 18, 2018:

President Trump renewed his attacks against CNN, which he has repeatedly called “fake news,” with a tweet on Christmas Eve. (Video: Jenny Starrs/Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)

President Trump on Sunday used his Twitter account to share an anti-CNN cartoon by an artist who in 2016 caused heartburn for Trump’s presidential campaign by drawing Hillary Clinton in blackface.

The latest image by cartoonist Tony Branco imagines CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer in the year 2038, leaning on a cane as he delivers the following report: “Update! We should see evidence of Russia-Trump collusion any day now.” The implication is that the media will never let go of the story. Continue reading “Trump tweets another anti-CNN cartoon — this one by the same artist who drew Clinton in blackface”

Arizona’s Double-Barrel Rejection of President Trump’s ‘Fake News’

The following article by Niels Lesniewski was posted on the Roll Call website January 17, 2018:

Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake gave a speech on the Senate floor Wednesday in defense of the free press. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photo)

Arizona’s two Republican senators asserted themselves Wednesday as defenders of the free press.

Jeff Flake took to the Senate floor for a well-publicized defense of the truth, as President Donald Trump was potentially preparing for an Orwellian “fake news” award ceremony.

“The free press is the despot’s enemy, which makes the free press the guardian of democracy. When a figure in power reflexively calls any press that doesn’t suit him ‘fake news,’ it is that person who should be the figure of suspicion, not the press,” Flake said. Continue reading “Arizona’s Double-Barrel Rejection of President Trump’s ‘Fake News’”