New York Times publisher slams Trump over ‘virtual act of Treason’ allegation
6/20/19
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from The Washington Post,
6/20/19:
It was another rage tweet from the president. It landed on a weekend thick with news stories. It aligned with hundreds of previous tweets. It was this:
For all those reasons, “Few paid much attention. Many news organizations, including the Times, determined the accusation wasn’t even worth reporting, a sign of how inured we’ve grown to such rhetorical recklessness,” wrote New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger in a Wall Street Journal op-ed deploring Trump’s campaign against the media. (According to a Times spokeswoman, the op-ed was offered to the Journal because “attacks on press freedom are global and broader than any one news organization.”)
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