{"id":30696,"date":"2018-07-02T03:03:08","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T03:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30696"},"modified":"2018-07-02T03:03:08","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T03:03:08","slug":"newspaper-pushes-back-against-potus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30696","title":{"rendered":"Newspaper pushes back against POTUS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/fakenews.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-30697\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/fakenews-300x108.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"108\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/fakenews-300x108.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/fakenews-768x278.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/fakenews-1024x370.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/fakenews.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Annapolis (Md.) Capital Gazette has laid it on the line.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter made public this weekend, the newspaper said it won&#8217;t forget that Donald J. Trump has continually labeled the media &#8220;the enemy of the American people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe won\u2019t forget being called an enemy of the people,\u201d the staff wrote. \u201cNo, we won\u2019t forget that. Because exposing evil, shining light on wrongs and fighting injustice is what we do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A gunman armed with a shotgun walked into the Capital Gazette newsroom this past week and killed five employees. Four of them were journalists; the fifth was a sales assistant.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect isn&#8217;t cooperating with the police who arrested him. Thus, we don&#8217;t yet know with absolute certainty what motivated him to open fire on the Capital Gazette. Yes, he lost a defamation lawsuit he had filed against the newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>But the Capital Gazette has leveled a thinly veiled response to Trump&#8217;s continual verbal assault on the media.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, the president issued appropriate remarks condemning the attack against the newspaper, saying that journalists &#8220;like all Americans&#8221; deserve the right to do their jobs without being &#8220;violently attacked.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But according to <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/media\/395100-capital-gazette-takes-hit-at-trump-we-wont-forget-being-called-an-enemy-of-the\">The Hill:<\/a> <em>CNN\u2019s John Berman called the president out on air for using the phrase \u201cviolently attacked,\u201d saying that he \u201cclearly has no problem at all verbally attacking journalists.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It is long past time to tone down the anti-media rhetoric. Are you up to the challenge, Mr. President?<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Annapolis (Md.) Capital Gazette has laid it on the line. In a letter made public this weekend, the newspaper said it won&#8217;t forget that Donald J. Trump has continually labeled the media &#8220;the enemy of the American people.&#8221; \u201cWe won\u2019t forget being called an enemy of the people,\u201d the staff wrote. \u201cNo, we won\u2019t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30696\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Newspaper pushes back against POTUS<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[7848,1043,1424,6712,4762],"class_list":["post-30696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","tag-annapolis-shooting","tag-cnn","tag-donald-trump","tag-fake-news","tag-the-hill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30698,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30696\/revisions\/30698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}