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August 16, 2018

Hundreds of Media Outlets Condemn Trump's Attacks on the Free Press
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More than 300 newspapers and media outlets have launched a campaign to
counter President Donald Trump's attacks on the free press. The effort
was led by The Boston Globe, which wrote in an editorial, "For more than
two centuries, this foundational American principle has protected
journalists at home and served as a model for free nations abroad. Today
it is under serious threat. And it sends an alarming signal to despots
from Ankara to Moscow, Beijing to Baghdad, that journalists can be
treated as a domestic enemy."


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