Coast to coast, and in between, local news is standing up to Trump's press attacks

by Brian Stelter @brianstelter

August 16, 2018: 9:29 AM ET

About 350 newspapers all have one thing in common on Thursday: A statement supporting the free press and decrying President Trump's attacks against the media.

From The Martha's Vineyard Times to the Dallas Morning News... from the Yankton County Observer in South Dakota to the Bangor Daily News in Maine... the papers are all running editorials as part of an effort first proposed by the Boston Globe earlier this month.

"This whole project is not anti-Trump. It's really pro-press," The Globe's editorial says.

Each paper wrote its own editorial. The campaign is significant because it moves the conversation about Trump's attacks out of Washington and New York and into communities across the country.

Some of the participants are emphasizing the local nature of most news coverage, and saying Trump's extreme rhetoric -- labeling journalists "enemies of the people," for instance -- hurts everyone, not just the political reporters who enrage him the most.

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https://money.cnn.com/2018/08/15/media/newspaper-editorials-free-press-trump/index.html