[ April 16, 2024 ]
The publisher of the New York Times, A.G. Sulzberger, said he asked President Donald Trump to quit all the anti-media talk and stop treating the press as an enemy.
Here’s how Trump should’ve responded: You first.
https://twitter.com/PamelaGeller/status/1023703244437106690
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This White House has been treated to nothing but vitriol from the mainstream media — the same mainstream media that was Barack Obama’s lapdog. Now they want to act like watchdogs — and worse, outright liars?
Sulzberger, whose newspaper is filled with thin-skinned quislings, it seems, apparently doess’t like it when the media target fights back.
From the Associated Press:
The publisher of The New York Times said Sunday he “implored” President Donald Trump at a private White House meeting this month to reconsider his broad attacks on journalists, calling the president’s anti-press rhetoric “not just divisive but increasingly dangerous.”
In a statement, A.G. Sulzberger said he decided to comment publicly after Trump revealed their off-the-record meeting to his more than 53 million Twitter followers on Sunday. Trump’s aides had requested that the July 20 meeting not be made public, Sulzberger said.
“Had a very good and interesting meeting at the White House with A.G. Sulzberger, Publisher of the New York Times. Spent much time talking about the vast amounts of Fake News being put out by the media & how that Fake News has morphed into phrase, “Enemy of the People.” Sad!” Trump wrote.
Hours after that exchange, Trump resumed his broadside against the media in a series of tweets that included a pledge not to let the country “be sold out by anti-Trump haters in the … dying newspaper industry.”
Sulzberger, who succeeded his father as publisher on Jan. 1, said his main purpose for accepting the meeting was to “raise concerns about the president’s deeply troubling anti-press rhetoric.”
“I told the president directly that I thought that his language was not just divisive but increasingly dangerous,” he said.
Sulzberger said he told Trump that while the phrase “fake news” is untrue and harmful, “I am far more concerned about his labeling journalists ‘the enemy of the people.’ I warned that this inflammatory language is contributing to a rise in threats against journalists and will lead to violence.”
Sulzberger, who attended the meeting with James Bennet, the Times’ editorial page editor, said he stressed that leaders outside the U.S. are already using Trump’s rhetoric to justify cracking down on journalists.
“I warned that it was putting lives at risk, that it was undermining the democratic ideals of our nation, and that it was eroding one of our country’s greatest exports: a commitment to free speech and a free press,” the publisher said.
Sulzberger added that he made clear that he was not asking Trump to soften his attacks against the Times if he thinks the newspaper’s coverage is unfair. “Instead, I implored him to reconsider his broader attacks on journalism, which I believe are dangerous and harmful to our country,” he said.
Trump reads the Times and gives interviews to its reporters. But the president — who, like all politicians, is concerned about his image — also regularly derides the newspaper as the “failing New York Times.” However, the Times’ ownership company in May reported a 3.8 percent increase in first-quarter revenue compared to the same period in 2017.
The president, who lashes out over media coverage of him and the administration that he deems unfair, has broadly labeled the news media the “enemy of the people” and regularly accuses reporters of spreading “fake news” — the term he often uses for stories he dislikes.
Hours after his tweet about the Sulzberger meeting, Trump renewed his criticism of the media in a series of posts in which he accused reporters of disclosing “internal deliberations of government” and said that can endanger “the lives of many.” He did not cite examples but wrote “Very unpatriotic!” and said freedom of the press “comes with a responsibility to report the news … accurately,” a sentiment that journalists share.
Trump also claimed that 90 percent of the coverage of his administration is negative, leading to an “all time low” in public confidence in the media. He cited the Times and The Washington Post, two favorite targets, and claimed, “They will never change!”
Last week, Trump told hundreds of people attending the annual Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Kansas City, Missouri: “Don’t believe the crap you see from these people, the fake news,” as he gestured toward journalists at the back of the room.
He also told them to remember “what you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening.”
Sulzberger said he accepted the meeting because Times publishers have a history of meeting with presidential administrations and other public figures who have concerns with the publication’s coverage of them.
After Sulzberger took charge, Trump tweeted that his ascension gave the paper a “last chance” to fulfill its founder’s vision of impartiality.
In the January tweet, Trump urged the new publisher to “Get impartial journalists of a much higher standard, lose all of your phony and non-existent ‘sources,’ and treat the President of the United States FAIRLY, so that the next time I (and the people) win, you won’t have to write an apology to your readers for a job poorly done!”
Tension between the administration and the news media was put on display last week after the White House told a CNN correspondent that she could not attend a Rose Garden event that was open to all credentialed media.
The correspondent, Kaitlan Collins, said she was barred because she asked Trump questions he did not like at a press event in the Oval Office earlier that day. The White House said Collins was barred because she refused to leave the Oval Office after being repeatedly asked to do so. Other journalists who were in the room at the time disputed the White House account.
Anthony Scaramucci, who spent 11 days as White House communications director last year before he was fired over an obscenity-laced tirade against other staffers in an interview, said he disagreed with the decision to put Collins in the “penalty box.” He told CNN’s “State of the Union” the order to bar Collins likely came from Trump because “he likes to be respected.”
Vice President Mike Pence, in a separate interview, said the administration believes in freedom of the press.
“But maintaining the decorum that is due at the White House I think is an issue that we’ll continue to work for,” he said in a taped interview broadcast Sunday on Fox Business Network.
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29 Comments
5 years ago
Anti-Media Rhetoric ?! …….. of their attempts to create chaos, riots and bloodshed ?!!!
5 years ago
Normal people are interested in the TRUTH. The press has an AGENDA and is interested in a NARRATIVE, whether true or not. The press is PROPAGANDIZING and sacrificing their historical record of being journalists.
5 years ago
Unlike George Bush who used to run for cover and give in to Left/liberal pro-jihadi corrupt media/politicians Trump is giving back and the Presstitutes have been thorougly exposed. And its good to see them whine and Trump should not give an inch.
After facebook, twitter , even Google, youtube joins lslamofascist gang to support illegals and jihadis
suppress conservative free speech http://tinyurl.com/lgp28rs
saudi/qatar/OIC own part of twitter, Fox Network, fund CNN, MSNBC , buy out politicians , bureaucrats in education dept to push islam in schools/ colleges. Easiest way to brainwash and takeover country and shutdown free speech !
5 years ago
Reply to
Suresh
When the media actually reports the news instead of making it up as they do now, maybe then they would deserve to be treated as we once did treat them…..now, they have to re-earn the privileged of being called news instead of fake news. They are just like the “one who lost” and can’t believe the American people are not for everything they stand for.
5 years ago
Surrender to that leftist rag? NEVER!!!
5 years ago
Reply to
gfmucci
Will SOROS surrender, the funder of the LEFT?
Why Don’t We Hear About Soros’ Ties to Over 30 Major News Organizations?
By Dan Gainor Published May 11, 2011 (NOTE THE DATE)
Editor’s note: This is the first of a two part series on George Soros and the media.
When liberal investor George Soros gave $1.8 million to National Public Radio , it became part of the firestorm of controversy that jeopardized NPR’s federal funding. But that gift only hints at the widespread influence the controversial billionaire has on the mainstream media. Soros, who spent $27 million trying to defeat President Bush in 2004, has ties to more than 30 mainstream news outlets – including The New York Times, Washington Post, the Associated Press, NBC and ABC.
Prominent journalists like ABC’s Christiane Amanpour and former Washington Post editor and now Vice President Len Downie serve on boards of operations that take Soros cash. This despite the Society of Professional Journalists’ ethical code stating: “avoid all conflicts real or perceived.”
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http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/05/11/dont-hear-george-soros-ties-30-major-news-organizations.html
5 years ago
SOROS just bought more NYT stock to bail them out.
Meddler extraordinaire George Soros invests millions in New York Times
June 14, 2018
Billionaire globalist George Soros has often been accused of attempting to meddle in the internal affairs, including elections and other democratic processes, of sovereign nations to suit his own political agenda.
Soros’ investment firm, Soros Fund Management LLC, has purchased over $3 million worth of shares in the New York Times, according to recent filings to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
That’s interesting. I thought a Mexican billionaire owned a huge chunk of Grey Lady stock.
5 years ago
So other ‘reporters’ ARE willing to LIE for her?! That’s PROOF they are fake news and NOT real reporters!!
5 years ago
The knife cuts both ways.
5 years ago
I wrote a letter to Sulzberger addressing how the supposed news columnists were biasing the news through the use of adjectives and adverbs. Never got a response but apparently he thinks the choice of positives or negatives in reporting doesn’t create fake news when it obviously does. In addition, choice of what to report and where also creates a fake context for what is reported. Not only is fake news bad but a fake context that undermines the Constitution is bad.
5 years ago
Trump is like me, a man belonging to a certain generation, experienced, tough, tempered and sure of his values and targets.
That young executive is a much newer model, hipster beard, very pale and a bit too “earnest”, totally left wing and VERY PC, knows how to fiddle with a lap top, can work one of these damn new phones and uses social media a lot.
Probably attends a Gym where he can be seen punching a bag which resembles his boss/dad/sibling, ex girlfriend/mum etc while peddling furiously his exercise bike shaped like a vegan lunch.
Bit of a spunk bubble ain’t he ?
5 years ago
Reply to
Poppey
Like many in the dissociated (from reality) left, that young executive is a Traitor whether he knows / understand it, or not
5 years ago
The media can and SHOULD be criticized, many journalists today like it or not do have ulterior agendas and mix personal politics with their regular reporting.
5 years ago
Sure, when the NYT gives back the Pulitzer prize.
Times Should Lose Pulitzer From 30’s, Consultant Says
https://www.weeklystandard.com/arnold-beichman/pulitzer-winning-lies
5 years ago
How Stalin Hid Ukraine’s Famine From the World
In 1932 and 1933, millions died across the Soviet Union—and the foreign press corps helped cover up the catastrophe.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/10/red-famine-anne-applebaum-ukraine-soviet-union/542610/
5 years ago
Reply to
1984 George Orwellesque
Pinchy’s papa covered for Hitler until 1940. Germany and the USSR had an “arrangement” at the time.
5 years ago
Good for Trump. Suzberger only asked Trump to reconsider because the NY Times is losing ground against Trump. The media cannot expect to incessantly insult and denigrate Trump without being called on it. He’s only holding them accountable. Like naughty children in a kindergarten class and they don’t like being reprimanded.
5 years ago
Times is a joke. Plagiarists run rampant there. Fake news.
5 years ago
Times is a joke. Plagiarists run rampant there. Fake news.
5 years ago
Sulzberger should start the ball rolling by putting out positive reports about the president instead of the 80% plus negative reports that appear in the NYT. CNN and Washington Post should do the same. They all bash the president incessantly and then they want him to give them credibility. Keep it up Mr President. MAGA
5 years ago
Isn’t this rich? The publisher of the NYT, which exists because of the First Amendment, asks the President of the United States to bridle his public remarks.
The only reason I buy a newspaper anymore is for the crossword puzzle and the obituaries and am beginning to question why they see fit to drag the dead into it.
5 years ago
Reply to
Drew the Infidel
A statement attributed to Mark Twain: “If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uniformed; it you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.”
5 years ago
Reply to
VoiceInDesert
Agreed. Those in politics and the media, which includes social media who wants in on the act, who see fit to abrogate the First Amendment rights of others to self-expression need to be reminded that those constitutional liberties are the very same ones which allow political discourse and the media to even exist in the first place.
5 years ago
This from America’s most virulently vicious and vociferous and oldest hate monger!
5 years ago
Enemy of the People!…hang them all!…”Scribes and Pharisees….sons of serpents…white washed tombs”…
5 years ago
Yes … Sulzberg – your lies do put lives at risk. I have seen the results of Lefty policies – and it ain’t pretty. Violence, crime, death, destruction, and far, far more than that. … and we haven’t even gotten to legal baby murder…
5 years ago
A.G. Sulzberger, unfortunately, is delusional, the media started this ‘dangerous’ hostility toward the president, but no, he must change his approach. Has A.G. Sulzberger not watched a few hours of 24/7 CNN attacks on Trump? It’s no longer a truly news networks, it is mostly anti-Trump propaganda with brain-dead Jeffrey Toobins, arch-liars Chris Cuomo and Alysin Camerota, now mentally disturbed Gloria Borger and really quite infantile Erin Burnett who increasingly is quite childish with her histrionics and phony facial expresssions.
5 years ago
Ahh, poor Pinchy. Getting a little warm in your boardroom?
