Newspapers from Maine to Hawaii pushed back against President Donald Trump's attacks on "fake news" Thursday with a coordinated series of editorials speaking up for a free and vigorous press.
The Boston Globe, which set the campaign in motion by urging the unified voice, had estimated that some 350 newspapers would participate.
On Thursday morning, Trump again took to Twitter to denounce "fake news."
The Boston Globe, which was sold to the the Failing New York Times for 1.3 BILLION DOLLARS (plus 800 million dollars in losses & investment), or 2.1 BILLION DOLLARS, was then sold by the Times for 1 DOLLAR. Now the Globe is in COLLUSION with other papers on free press. PROVE IT!
THE FAKE NEWS MEDIA IS THE OPPOSITION PARTY. It is very bad for our Great Country....BUT WE ARE WINNING!
It remains unclear how much sway the effort will have. Newspaper editorial boards overwhelmingly opposed Trump's election in 2016. Polls show Republicans have grown more negative toward the news media in recent years: Pew Research Center said 85 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents said in June 2017 that the news media has a negative effect on the country, up from 68 percent in 2010.
But some newspapers have decided to not participate, including LA’s hometown paper, the Los Angeles Times. What do you think of this strategy from this group of newspapers?
With files from the Associated Press
Guests:
Dan Shelley, executive director of the Radio Television Digital News Association, who joined the Boston Globe’s coordinated series of editorials; he tweets
John Diaz, editorial page editor for the San Francisco Chronicle, which is not participating in the coordinated series of editorials; he tweets