A new research report from a leading journalism organisation says President Donald Trump's attacks on the news media have endangered American democracy and imperilled press freedom in other countries.

The report from the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) catalogues a lengthy list of Trump's anti-press behaviours, from repeatedly tarring credible reporting with charges of “fake news,” to trying to bar reporters from the White House, to scrubbing or withholding information from government websites.


Mr Trump's attacks on the news media have “dangerously undermined truth and consensus in a deeply divided country” at a time when the nation faces the unprecedented challenge of the coronavirus, concludes CPJ, a New York-based organisation that monitors press issues around the world.

Its report, titled “The Trump Administration and the Media,” documents such Trump administration practices as using US Customs and Border Protection to question journalists and search their electronic devices at border crossings; Mr Trump's calls for boycotts of news organisations and for changes in libel laws to punish reporting he doesn't like; the ending of formal White House press briefings for more than a year; and Trump's repeated lies to discredit accurate reporting.


It also cites the president's harassment of media companies - he has threatened regulatory action against corporate owners - and his re-election campaign's recent lawsuits against The Washington Post, the New York Times and CNN for opinion columns it disputed.

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-journalists-media-democracy-fake-news-white-house-cpj-a9469586.html

The resident Nairaland hypocrites would soon be here to proclaim him god.

olayiwola4u:

A new research report from a leading journalism organisation says President Donald Trump's attacks on the news media have endangered American democracy and imperilled press freedom in other countries.

The report from the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) catalogues a lengthy list of Trump's anti-press behaviours, from repeatedly tarring credible reporting with charges of “fake news,” to trying to bar reporters from the White House, to scrubbing or withholding information from government websites.


Mr Trump's attacks on the news media have “dangerously undermined truth and consensus in a deeply divided country” at a time when the nation faces the unprecedented challenge of the coronavirus, concludes CPJ, a New York-based organisation that monitors press issues around the world.

Its report, titled “The Trump Administration and the Media,” documents such Trump administration practices as using US Customs and Border Protection to question journalists and search their electronic devices at border crossings; Mr Trump's calls for boycotts of news organisations and for changes in libel laws to punish reporting he doesn't like; the ending of formal White House press briefings for more than a year; and Trump's repeated lies to discredit accurate reporting.


It also cites the president's harassment of media companies - he has threatened regulatory action against corporate owners - and his re-election campaign's recent lawsuits against The Washington Post, the New York Times and CNN for opinion columns it disputed.

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-journalists-media-democracy-fake-news-white-house-cpj-a9469586.html

Shut up! It is the crass partisanship of American media organizations like CNN etc that is undermining American democracy!

Not true. Those journalists are not honest, and they are haters.
The only thing they are interested in is to prove this president wrong they don't care about
the tremendous job he is doing.Why don't they go after the incompetent governor of New York ?

Trump can never be wrong because he is a god to some people in Nigeria