Boston Globe rallies outlets across the country for 16 August action, saying president’s ‘dirty war on free press must end’
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More than 100 newspapers across the US will publish coordinated editorial responses to president Donald Trump’s repeated attacks on the media on Thursday.
The campaign has been organised by the Boston Globe, whose editorial staff approached news outlets across the country asking them to write an editorial denouncing the president’s hostility to the media.
“This dirty war on the free press must end,” said the appeal.
“Publications, whatever their politics, could make a powerful statement by standing together in the common defence of their profession and the vital role it plays in government for and by the people.”
As of Saturday, more than 100 publications had signed up to the campaign, Marjorie Pritchard, the Globe’s deputy editorial page editor, told CNN.
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