Donald Trump in hot waters back at home
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LOS ANGELES - Hundreds of US newspapers have hit back hard against the President Donald Trump.
Newspapers came out in defence of press freedom and a rebuke of President Donald Trump for denouncing some media organisations as enemies of the American people.
The Boston Globe and the New York Times took part along with more than 350 other newspapers of all sizes, including some in states that Trump won during the 2016 presidential election.
The Globe said it coordinated publication among the newspapers and carried details of it on a database on its website.
Each paper ran an editorial, which is usually an unsigned article that reflects the opinion of an editorial board and is separate from the news and other sections in a paper.
The Globe’s editorial accused Trump of carrying out a “sustained assault on the free press.”
“The greatness of America is dependent on the role of a free press to speak the truth to the powerful,” it said. “To label the press ‘the enemy of the people’ is as un-American as it is dangerous to the civic compact we have shared for more than two centuries.”
The First Amendment of the US Constitution guarantees freedom of the press.
Trump has frequently criticised journalists and described news reports that contradict his opinion or policy positions as fake news.
On Thursday, he said there was nothing he would want more for the United States than true freedom of the press.
