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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPhiladelphia Inquirer front page and editorial today
Tweeted by opinion page contributor Av Gutman:
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http://www2.philly.com/philly/opinion/editorials/newspaper-free-press-editorials-donald-trump-philadelphia-20180815.html
Squinch
(50,949 posts)orangecrush
(19,556 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)I'm gratified to see the newspapers stand up for themselves at last, but unless there is a consistent commitment and follow through, today's editorials will be a lonely marker of a bygone era. The administration has to pay a price for its consistent demonization of factual reporting it doesn't like.
flyingfysh
(1,990 posts)The Boston Globe organized today as the day lots of newspapers publish editorials defending the press.
calimary
(81,267 posts)orangecrush
(19,556 posts)they don't let up.
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)paper
Thunderbeast
(3,411 posts)......unless we support it with subscriptions.
Local newspapers still are a major tool for accountability. If all our information comes from MSNBC and Democratic Underground, we will forfeit the fourth estate.
jayschool2013
(2,312 posts)calimary
(81,267 posts)Its good advice.
RobinA
(9,893 posts)7 days of Philadelphia Inquirer, Sunday NYT. Although the Inquirer is doing its level best to make subscribers give up by cut, cut, cutting content and dumbing down what's left.
riversedge
(70,225 posts)malthaussen
(17,195 posts)... I respect them for keeping the commitment.
-- Mal
BadGimp
(4,015 posts)LuckyLib
(6,819 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,491 posts)tRump, his many cohorts, the GOP congress, and their plutocrat friends will do everything underhandedly possible and within their power to close these papers down. Watch for web site hacks, personal attacks on employees, changes in tax rules and laws and material tariffs just to inflict maximum pain and financial loss. It's guaranteed that Russia will help them.
These moves by tRump toward autocracy using raw tyranny against our free press must end........