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Did yours participate? Denver Post was supposed to, but so far nothing there....
Some may have elected to do so a day or so around the August 16 date... ON EDIT: Denver Post just put their's online. See post # 3
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/08/14/newspapers-join-globe-effort-freedom-press-editorials/yvvZ0yepu8j1lJ3G3qYbSJ/story.html
More than 300 newspapers join Globe effort on freedom of the press editorials
More than 300 news publications across the United States have committed to a Boston Globe-coordinated effort to run editorials Thursday promoting the freedom of the press, in light of President Trumps frequent attacks on the media.
Some of the most respected and widely circulated newspapers in the country have committed to taking a stand in their editorial pages, including The New York Times, The Dallas Morning News, The Denver Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Chicago Sun-Times. The list ranges from large metropolitan dailies to small weekly papers with circulations as low as 4,000.
Pacifist Patriot
(24,653 posts)If so, I don't see him passing up on this opportunity.
hlthe2b
(102,283 posts)It has been abysmal.
Charles Plunkett resigned 1 month following his brave stance described in the link above.
https://www.denverpost.com/2018/05/03/denver-post-chuck-plunkett-resigns/
Pacifist Patriot
(24,653 posts)I haven't thought of him in years, but I knew Dean Singleton in the 1990s. I think it was the spring of '93 at a family-owned newspaper conference in Cambridge, MA when I told him that within a decade far more people would be reading newspapers on their computer instead of in print. I told him computers were going to seriously impact newspaper advertising. He listened politely and didn't argue with me, but was skeptical.
I've long since stopped following the newspaper business since the family sold out in '98, but I was always impressed he took the time to engage with a 24 year old with no newspaper experience (I was marrying into it). He gave me his attention and seemed genuinely interested in what I had to say. Sorry to see him step down as chairman in May.
jayschool2013
(2,312 posts)Pacifist Patriot
(24,653 posts)jayschool2013
(2,312 posts)He's much more qualified than I ever was.
CU did a regular search after I retired in 2017, but they couldn't find the right person. Then Chuck resigned from the Post. He fell into their lap, but the students at the College of Media, Communications and Information at CU have a tremendous resource. I hope they're fired up enough to make use of his expertise, attitude and experience.
hlthe2b
(102,283 posts)We tell the truth: Denver Post decries Trumps attacks on journalists
Theres no political filter or agenda belying our printed words, just a desire to inform the public
-snip--
Trump is a difficult politician to cover. His tweets and factually inaccurate statements frequently put him at loggerheads with the media. In a vacuum void of his outlandish statements, some of Trumps policies would earn more straightforward media coverage. It has become a destructive cycle where the media covers Trumps words and instead of self-reflection following scathing media reports, Trump cries fake news.
Its a dangerous cry coming from the White House.
And so we are taking this opportunity to assure our readers that The Denver Post newsroom and opinion pages are dedicated to bringing you all the facts. We are also encouraging our readers to point it out when we are missing the mark of telling the whole truth. We are listening and capable of self reflection.
Pacifist Patriot
(24,653 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)300 newspapers, and most of cable and MSM also reporting some truth, versus Murdock Media empire...yet the braindead Fox sycophants remain locked in a death grip of propaganda.
How to break that iron dome??
Zing Zing Zingbah
(6,496 posts)"Our View: The best defense against tyranny is a free and independent press
The public shouldn't trust the powerful people who claim they have a monopoly on the truth and all conflicting versions are false."
Shows right up on the top of their web page today.
Zing Zing Zingbah
(6,496 posts)Zing Zing Zingbah
(6,496 posts)demmiblue
(36,858 posts)Inspired (and provoked) by President Donald Trump's serial slanders on our craft and our colleagues, I and dozens of other editorial page editors across the country have set today aside to remind our readers what journalists do, what makes them tick, and how democratic values are threatened when the leader of the free world vilifies their honorable profession as the "enemy of the people" and a conduit of "fake news."
But first I want to talk about the klong.
If you are unfamiliar with the term (as I was until I came across it in the official style-book I was handed when I joined this newspaper sometime during the Bronze Age), a klong is defined, colloquially, as "a cold rush of excrement to the heart," usually occasioned by the realization that one has committed a serious error.
The klong is also the occupational hazard of journalists everywhere.
The klong typically arrives in the wee hours, after the last edition has gone to print and the late web supervisor has left the newsroom for the evening.
Just as our sleepy reporter is about to drift off to oblivion, she is jolted into five-alarm wakefulness by a nagging question: Does the widow of the late Congressman Joe Schlabotnik, whose obituary the reporter spent the previous day writing, spell her name Katherine with a K or Catherine with a C? Did the reporter remember to check?
https://www.freep.com/story/opinion/columnists/brian-dickerson/2018/08/16/defending-journalists/988574002/
GoCubsGo
(32,084 posts)Outside of three small papers, there's not one paper within 200 miles of me that had the guts to print it, including all of the major ones. Not The State. Not The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Not the Charlotte Observer. Not the Charleston Post and Courier. Not the Savannah Morning News. Zip. Zero. Zilch. Nada. I wish I would say I was surprised.
hlthe2b
(102,283 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,084 posts)I thought that The State and Charleston papers might be, as well. Sad.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)conservative in the nation, but I did have hopes for the AJC. Not all that much. I subscribed the first year we moved to GA and found it an astonishingly lousy paper. We were used to the LA Times and, in those days at least, it was clear the AJC leaned to withholding information and barring understanding, not enlarging both.
TNNurse
(6,926 posts)hlthe2b
(102,283 posts)More Editorials
Editorial: We the people includes journalists and news outlets
Today we join news media outlets around the country in condemning the enemy of the people attacks by our president, Donald Trump. We published an editorial to that effect two Sundays ago, Aug. 5, under the headline Presidents tone
GoCubsGo
(32,084 posts)Still a bunch of cowards in my book.
Zing Zing Zingbah
(6,496 posts)Zing Zing Zingbah
(6,496 posts)Zing Zing Zingbah
(6,496 posts)hlthe2b
(102,283 posts)--snip--
The Los Angeles Times, however, has decided not to participate. There will be no free press editorial on our page today.
This is not because we dont believe that President Trump has been engaged in a cynical, demagogic and unfair assault on our industry. He has, and we have written about it on numerous occasions. As early as April 2017, we wrote this as part of a full-page editorial on Trumps War on Journalism:
Trumps strategy is pretty clear: By branding reporters as liars, he apparently hopes to discredit, disrupt or bully into silence anyone who challenges his version of reality. By undermining trust in news organizations and delegitimizing journalism and muddling the facts so that Americans no longer know who to believe, he can deny and distract and help push his administrations far-fetched storyline.
We still believe that. Nevertheless, the editorial board decided not to write about the subject on this particular Thursday because we cherish our independence.
The Los Angeles Times editorial board does not speak for the New York Times or for the Boston Globe or the Chicago Tribune or the Denver Post. We share certain opinions with those newspapers; we disagree on other things. Even when we do agree with another editorial page on the death penalty or climate change or war in Afghanistan, say we reach our own decisions and positions after careful consultation and deliberation among ourselves, and then we write our own editorials. We would not want to leave the impression that we take our lead from others, or that we engage in groupthink.
The president himself already treats the media as a cabal enemies of the people, he has called us, suggesting over and over that were in cahoots to do damage to the country. The idea of joining together to protest him seems almost to encourage that kind of conspiracy thinking by the president and his loyalists. Why give them ammunition to scream about collusion?
We mean no disrespect to those who have decided to write on this important subject today. But we will continue to write about the issue on our own schedule.
Nicholas Goldberg is editor of The Times editorial pages.
jayschool2013
(2,312 posts)Got it.
Sophia4
(3,515 posts)Every morning I woke up and read the LA Times. That was my link to the world beyond my home and my office.
The LA Times did not print what turned out to be, in my opinion, the truth about Iraq and our reasons and motivations for invading that country. I may be wrong, but I don't remember the LA Times every apologizing to its readers for the misinformation it blindly printed in the run-up to the Iraq War.
I do not read the LA Times. It printed misinformation. I trusted that newspaper. It let me down.
I could be wrong, but that is my subjective opinion of the LA Times.
I almost wish I could be proved wrong about this, but . . . . .
hlthe2b
(102,283 posts)hlthe2b
(102,283 posts)EDITORIAL: This newspaper is the enemy of all that hurts the people
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-edit-trump-press-journalists-20180813-story.html
Editorial: Mr. President: We arent enemies of the people. Were a check on government.
jayschool2013
(2,312 posts)hlthe2b
(102,283 posts)hlthe2b
(102,283 posts)President Trump, were not enemies of the people. End your war on our free press
Read more here: https://www.kansascity.com/opinion/editorials/article216687685.html#storylink=cpy
hlthe2b
(102,283 posts)JustAnotherGen
(31,828 posts)hlthe2b
(102,283 posts)EDITORIAL: We need civility among president and press corps
hlthe2b
(102,283 posts)Princess Turandot
(4,787 posts)In addition to references to their past criticism of Trump, they cite a concern that he will use the effort to claim that the media is conspiring against him.
denvine
(802 posts)For some reason the link I copied goes to the next page. Just scroll back to A17.
http://cincinnatienquirer.oh.newsmemory.com/?token=e7e5be228ca3590f7b75e60e8c6e1d28&cnum=4023820&fod=1111111STD&selDate=20180816&licenseType=paid_subscriber&
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)Nothing. It would have been up by now.
hlthe2b
(102,283 posts)NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,057 posts)Apparently they claim they have responded before (and I know they have over and over), but even if they simply reprinted the 1st Amendment of the Constitution as their editorial from the board, it would have made a powerful statement.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)hlthe2b
(102,283 posts)Were not the enemy. President Trump, end your war on the free press.
President Donald Trump has veered into perilous territory with his assault on the First Amendment. His references to journalists as the enemy of the American people are no less dangerous because they happen to be strategic.
Read more here: https://www.idahostatesman.com/opinion/editorials/#storylink=cpy
hlthe2b
(102,283 posts)hlthe2b
(102,283 posts)As a candidate and as president of the United States, Donald Trump has waged an unprecedented war of words on the media. He calls the press amazingly dishonest and major media outlets such as CNN and The New York Times fake news.
If the president sees inaccurate reporting, he should and has the right to call it out and draw attention to the facts. We wont pretend that every story that has appeared in all of the various outlets that cover the presidency has been without fault. But we also wont pretend that there isnt a larger issue at stake here involving a free inquiry by a free press that gets to the very foundation of our republic. --snip-
BumRushDaShow
(129,057 posts)with this pic (also here is the digital version of the editorial from Philly.com) -
Another view of that marker, which is located at the National Constitution Center a block from Independence Hall (which can be seen in the background) -
hlthe2b
(102,283 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,057 posts)The Philly Daily News (which is the tabloid here and linked to the Inquirer joined in as well) -
hlthe2b
(102,283 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,057 posts)(this is our oldest black newspaper here) -
http://www.phillytrib.com/commentary/editorials/philadelphia-tribune-editorial-trump-s-alarming-attack-on-the-media/article_9f580129-68a8-5471-9ceb-d662cab833ac.html
hlthe2b
(102,283 posts)Editorial: President Trump, we are not the enemy of the people
hlthe2b
(102,283 posts)Philadelphia Tribune Editorial: Trumps alarming attack on the media
hlthe2b
(102,283 posts)President Trump, were not enemies of the people. End your war on our free press
Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/editorials/article216780730.html#storylink=cpy
hlthe2b
(102,283 posts)eleny
(46,166 posts)"Journalists in The Denver Post newsroom spend their days in pursuit of the truth.
Theres no political filter or agenda belying their printed words, just a desire to inform the public."
https://www.denverpost.com/2018/08/16/denver-post-truth-in-journalism/
hlthe2b
(102,283 posts)blaze
(6,362 posts)JUST IN: US Senate passes resolution with unanimous consent by voice vote that affirms that the press is not the enemy of the people and reaffirms the vital and indispensable role that the free press serves and condemns the attacks on the institution of the free press.
Link to tweet
hlthe2b
(102,283 posts)madamesilverspurs
(15,805 posts)in the Greeley Tribune. Disappointing, not surprising. Editor Nate Miller, who replaced the late Randy Bangert, isn't known for non-partisanship; he doesn't come right out and dis non-Republicans, but he doesn't give us anywhere near the same level of coverage that he gives Republicans. That said, it's rather amazing that he couldn't be bothered to stand up in support of his own profession.
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hlthe2b
(102,283 posts)What our investigative journalists expose isnt fake news
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Will look again later just in case.
hlthe2b
(102,283 posts)ismnotwasm
(41,986 posts)hlthe2b
(102,283 posts)madwivoter
(539 posts)hlthe2b
(102,283 posts)Editorial: Press isnt enemy of the people
hlthe2b
(102,283 posts)What our investigative journalists expose isnt fake news
hlthe2b
(102,283 posts)https://www.thedailytimes.com/opinion/our_voice/stop-the-attacks-on-our-free-press/article_1585b63d-9707-5f27-9251-57b3579f6e4a.html
Stop the attacks on our free press
Editors note: The Daily Times is one of more than 100 U.S. newspapers to participate in a coordinated editorial response today to President Donald Trumps repeated attacks on the news media.
Mad-in-Mo
(229 posts)Sorry I meant to reply to main thread
hlthe2b
(102,283 posts)Mad-in-Mo
(229 posts)is downright scary.
https://www.facebook.com/joplinglobe/
oasis
(49,388 posts)mcar
(42,334 posts)Solly Mack
(90,769 posts)Link to list of papers
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/16/politics/newspaper-editorials-trump-list/index.html
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Uncle Joe
(58,364 posts)Thanks for the thread hlthe2b.
orangecrush
(19,570 posts)My hometown paper.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)irisblue
(32,979 posts)SNIP...."Our decision to speak out today a day that newspapers across the country have chosen to send a similar message is not about politics but about condemning unprofessional, uncivil and dangerous behavior. The president's actions are a calculated effort to obfuscate the truth and undermine the ability of Americans to trust the most reliable sources of information on which to judge the conduct of government officials.
That was Trump's plan even before he became president. He admitted as much to veteran broadcast journalist Lesley Stahl in the midst of his campaign in July 2016. Stahl said she asked Trump why he railed against the press, and he explained, "I do it to discredit you all and demean you all so when you write negative stories about me, no one will believe you."
more at editorial
Wounded Bear
(58,662 posts)have not seen today's issue yet.
List left
(595 posts)A message from our publisher: 122 years of local stewardship | Inside The Times. Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.
Can't see the rest behind their paywall.
List left
(595 posts)A message from our publisher: 122 years of local stewardship | Inside The Times. Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy....
Behind paywall, can't see anymore of it.