7 minutes agoNew York Times, caution Trumpit: Do not call journalists enemies of the people
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he had recently told the publisher of the newspaper “The New York Times” how he had managed to call the media “The People's Enemy”, but the director of this media company said he had responded to Trump, saying his language was “ “and “times [...]
In a commentary he made on Twitter, Trump described his July 20th meeting at the White House with A.G. Sultan as “very good and interesting”. The American leader said that “had spent a lot of time talking about the large amount of “Warnings being published in the media and how this term was transformed from it into the “Armamic phrase of the people”. That's a shame. The President wrote:
Sultan, who is probably the biggest publisher in the United States, said that according to a long tradition that the editors of the prestigious newspaper meet with the American presidents, the meeting was held at Mr. Trump's request, but it was not to be published.
Mr. Sulzberger, said that since Trump wrote on Twitter about the meeting, making public the long-term ritual of the publisher's meeting with the American president, he decided to respond to Mr. Trump, to give his assessment of the conversation from the notes he received at the meeting, along with those of the newspaper's opinionist address editor James Bennett, who was also present at the meeting.
Our main goal in accepting the meeting was to raise concerns over the president's rhetoric against the press, a very disturbing issue. I told the president that his language was not only divisive, but in fact it was becoming increasingly dangerous”, said Sultan.
Sulzberger added: “I constantly stressed, that this findings are especially true abroad, where the president's rhetoric is exploited by certain regimes, to justify oppressive measures against journalists. I warned him that his attitude threatened lives, undermined the democratic ideals of our nation, and that it damaged one of the major issues our country exports: devotion to freedom of speech and free press. ”
“New Editor The York Times” said that “said Trump had said that the term “false warning” is not true and that it is dangerous; that I am even more concerned about appointing journalists by him as the “enemy of the Polli”. I warned him that this promotional language is contributing to increased threats against journalists and will lead to violence. ”
Sultan did not speak of the president's reaction to his remarks. / VoA
