Led by Boston Globe more than 300 newspapers were to publish Press Freedom editorials today

[hlthe2b]

Last edited Thu Aug 16, 2018, 09:15 AM - Edit history (1)

Did yours participate? Denver Post was supposed to, but so far nothing there....
Some may have elected to do so a day or so around the August 16 date... ON EDIT: Denver Post just put their's online. See post # 3

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/08/14/newspapers-join-globe-effort-freedom-press-editorials/yvvZ0yepu8j1lJ3G3qYbSJ/story.html

More than 300 newspapers join Globe effort on freedom of the press editorials

By Jaclyn Reiss Globe Staff August 14, 2018

More than 300 news publications across the United States have committed to a Boston Globe-coordinated effort to run editorials Thursday promoting the freedom of the press, in light of President Trump’s frequent attacks on the media.

Some of the most respected and widely circulated newspapers in the country have committed to taking a stand in their editorial pages, including The New York Times, The Dallas Morning News, The Denver Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Chicago Sun-Times. The list ranges from large metropolitan dailies to small weekly papers with circulations as low as 4,000.

[Pacifist Patriot]

1. Is Plunkett still the editorial page editor?

If so, I don't see him passing up on this opportunity.

[hlthe2b]

2. DP has been bought by a stinkin Hedge Fund and lost a ton of good people... ongoing controversy

https://denver.cbslocal.com/2018/04/09/denver-post-editorial-page/

It has been abysmal.

Charles Plunkett resigned 1 month following his brave stance described in the link above.
https://www.denverpost.com/2018/05/03/denver-post-chuck-plunkett-resigns/

[Pacifist Patriot]

4. Yeah, I saw that in April. Didn't follow how it has played out.

I haven't thought of him in years, but I knew Dean Singleton in the 1990s. I think it was the spring of '93 at a family-owned newspaper conference in Cambridge, MA when I told him that within a decade far more people would be reading newspapers on their computer instead of in print. I told him computers were going to seriously impact newspaper advertising. He listened politely and didn't argue with me, but was skeptical.

I've long since stopped following the newspaper business since the family sold out in '98, but I was always impressed he took the time to engage with a 24 year old with no newspaper experience (I was marrying into it). He gave me his attention and seemed genuinely interested in what I had to say. Sorry to see him step down as chairman in May.

[jayschool2013]

17. Chuck now has my former job

Director of CU News Corps at CU Boulder

[Pacifist Patriot]

22. Nice!

[jayschool2013]

24. It is very nice

He's much more qualified than I ever was.

CU did a regular search after I retired in 2017, but they couldn't find the right person. Then Chuck resigned from the Post. He fell into their lap, but the students at the College of Media, Communications and Information at CU have a tremendous resource. I hope they're fired up enough to make use of his expertise, attitude and experience.

[hlthe2b]

3. ahh, here's the Denver Post piece (they just now posted online)

https://www.denverpost.com/2018/08/16/denver-post-truth-in-journalism/

We tell the truth: Denver Post decries Trump’s attacks on journalists
There’s no political filter or agenda belying our printed words, just a desire to inform the public
-snip--

We believe that an informed electorate is critical to Democracy; that the public has a right to know what elected officials, public figures and government bureaucracies are doing behind closed doors; that journalism is integral to the checks and balances of power; and that the public can trust the facts it reads in this newspaper and those facts coming from the mainstream media.

Trump is a difficult politician to cover. His tweets and factually inaccurate statements frequently put him at loggerheads with the media. In a vacuum void of his outlandish statements, some of Trump’s policies would earn more straightforward media coverage. It has become a destructive cycle where the media covers Trump’s words and instead of self-reflection following scathing media reports, Trump cries fake news.

It’s a dangerous cry coming from the White House.

And so we are taking this opportunity to assure our readers that The Denver Post newsroom and opinion pages are dedicated to bringing you all the facts. We are also encouraging our readers to point it out when we are missing the mark of telling “the whole truth.” We are listening and capable of self reflection.

[Pacifist Patriot]

5. Excellent!

[Fred Sanders]

48. Rec....

300 newspapers, and most of cable and MSM also reporting some truth, versus Murdock Media empire...yet the braindead Fox sycophants remain locked in a death grip of propaganda.

How to break that iron dome??

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

6. Portland Press Herald's editorial (Portland, ME)

https://www.pressherald.com/2018/08/16/our-view-the-best-defense-against-tyranny-is-a-free-and-independent-press/


"Our View: The best defense against tyranny is a free and independent press
The public shouldn't trust the powerful people who claim they have a monopoly on the truth and all conflicting versions are false."



Shows right up on the top of their web page today.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

7. Would love to see links to these editorials from other papers on this thread n/t

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

8. Sun Journal out of Lewiston, ME

http://www.sunjournal.com/theres-truth-then-everything-else/

[demmiblue]

9. The Detroit Free Press:

Opinion: Defending my profession amid 'enemy of the people' rhetoric

Inspired (and provoked) by President Donald Trump's serial slanders on our craft and our colleagues, I and dozens of other editorial page editors across the country have set today aside to remind our readers what journalists do, what makes them tick, and how democratic values are threatened when the leader of the free world vilifies their honorable profession as the "enemy of the people" and a conduit of "fake news."

But first I want to talk about the klong.

If you are unfamiliar with the term (as I was until I came across it in the official style-book I was handed when I joined this newspaper sometime during the Bronze Age), a klong is defined, colloquially, as "a cold rush of excrement to the heart," usually occasioned by the realization that one has committed a serious error.

The klong is also the occupational hazard of journalists everywhere.

The klong typically arrives in the wee hours, after the last edition has gone to print and the late web supervisor has left the newsroom for the evening.

Just as our sleepy reporter is about to drift off to oblivion, she is jolted into five-alarm wakefulness by a nagging question: Does the widow of the late Congressman Joe Schlabotnik, whose obituary the reporter spent the previous day writing, spell her name Katherine with a K or Catherine with a C? Did the reporter remember to check?

https://www.freep.com/story/opinion/columnists/brian-dickerson/2018/08/16/defending-journalists/988574002/

[GoCubsGo]

10. Not surprisingly, my local ultra-right wing, total waste of good pulp is not on that list.

Outside of three small papers, there's not one paper within 200 miles of me that had the guts to print it, including all of the major ones. Not The State. Not The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Not the Charlotte Observer. Not the Charleston Post and Courier. Not the Savannah Morning News. Zip. Zero. Zilch. Nada. I wish I would say I was surprised.

[hlthe2b]

14. I actually thought there was a chance that AJC would participate. Very disappointed.

[GoCubsGo]

16. Same here.

I thought that The State and Charleston papers might be, as well. Sad.

[Hortensis]

54. Yes. Our north GA district is among the most

conservative in the nation, but I did have hopes for the AJC. Not all that much. I subscribed the first year we moved to GA and found it an astonishingly lousy paper. We were used to the LA Times and, in those days at least, it was clear the AJC leaned to withholding information and barring understanding, not enlarging both.

[TNNurse]

78. I grew up reading the AJC, I am not disappointed, I am pissed.

[hlthe2b]

57. Well, lookee here: the Savannah paper did cover

http://www.savannahnow.com/opinion/20180815/editorial-we-people-includes-journalists-and-news-outlets
More Editorials
Editorial: ‘We the people’ includes journalists and news outlets
Today we join news media outlets around the country in condemning the “enemy of the people” attacks by our president, Donald Trump. We published an editorial to that effect two Sundays ago, Aug. 5, under the headline “President’s tone…

[GoCubsGo]

61. The Post and Courier published a half-assed editorial on the subject.

Local journalism isn’t partisan. And the stories have the greatest impact on you.

Still a bunch of cowards in my book.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

11. Bangor Daily News out of Bangor, ME

https://bangordailynews.com/2018/08/15/opinion/editorials/media-is-the-enemy-only-if-you-dont-want-to-know-what-your-government-is-doing/

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

12. New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/15/opinion/editorials/free-press-local-journalism-news-donald-trump.html?action=click&contentCollection=opinion&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=sectionfront

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

13. The Boston Globe one

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/editorials/2018/08/15/editorial/Kt0NFFonrxqBI6NqqennvL/story.html

[hlthe2b]

15. LA Times ('sort of')

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-ol-enter-the-fray-the-los-angeles-times-is-not-1534376775-htmlstory.html

--snip--

The Los Angeles Times, however, has decided not to participate. There will be no free press editorial on our page today.

This is not because we don’t believe that President Trump has been engaged in a cynical, demagogic and unfair assault on our industry. He has, and we have written about it on numerous occasions. As early as April 2017, we wrote this as part of a full-page editorial on “Trump’s War on Journalism”:

“Trump’s strategy is pretty clear: By branding reporters as liars, he apparently hopes to discredit, disrupt or bully into silence anyone who challenges his version of reality. By undermining trust in news organizations and delegitimizing journalism and muddling the facts so that Americans no longer know who to believe, he can deny and distract and help push his administration’s far-fetched storyline.”

We still believe that. Nevertheless, the editorial board decided not to write about the subject on this particular Thursday because we cherish our independence.

The Los Angeles Times editorial board does not speak for the New York Times or for the Boston Globe or the Chicago Tribune or the Denver Post. We share certain opinions with those newspapers; we disagree on other things. Even when we do agree with another editorial page — on the death penalty or climate change or war in Afghanistan, say — we reach our own decisions and positions after careful consultation and deliberation among ourselves, and then we write our own editorials. We would not want to leave the impression that we take our lead from others, or that we engage in groupthink.

The president himself already treats the media as a cabal — “enemies of the people,” he has called us, suggesting over and over that we’re in cahoots to do damage to the country. The idea of joining together to protest him seems almost to encourage that kind of conspiracy thinking by the president and his loyalists. Why give them ammunition to scream about “collusion”?

We mean no disrespect to those who have decided to write on this important subject today. But we will continue to write about the issue on our own schedule.

Nicholas Goldberg is editor of The Times’ editorial pages.

[jayschool2013]

21. So they wrote about not writing about it.

Got it.

[Sophia4]

76. Back before the Iraq War, I was working very, very long hours.

Every morning I woke up and read the LA Times. That was my link to the world beyond my home and my office.

The LA Times did not print what turned out to be, in my opinion, the truth about Iraq and our reasons and motivations for invading that country. I may be wrong, but I don't remember the LA Times every apologizing to its readers for the misinformation it blindly printed in the run-up to the Iraq War.

I do not read the LA Times. It printed misinformation. I trusted that newspaper. It let me down.

I could be wrong, but that is my subjective opinion of the LA Times.

I almost wish I could be proved wrong about this, but . . . . .

[hlthe2b]

77. Look to its ownership... that's where the problem lies... unfortunately

[hlthe2b]

18. Chicago Sun Times yes, conservative Chicago Tribune: YES!

https://chicago.suntimes.com/opinion/freedom-press-newspaper-friend-trump-enemy-people/
EDITORIAL: This newspaper is the ‘enemy’ of all that hurts ‘the people’


http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-edit-trump-press-journalists-20180813-story.html
Editorial: Mr. President: We aren’t enemies of the people. We’re a check on government.

[jayschool2013]

19. Cedar Rapids Gazette

Is in.

[hlthe2b]

20. that's good to see

[hlthe2b]

23. Kansas City Star

President Trump, we’re not ‘enemies of the people.’ End your war on our free press

Read more here: https://www.kansascity.com/opinion/editorials/article216687685.html#storylink=cpy

[hlthe2b]

25. Oh, Brother.... (eyeroll, eyeroll, eyeroll)

Link to tweet

[JustAnotherGen]

26. Star Ledger - from NJ.com

https://www.nj.com/opinion/index.ssf/2018/08/your_enemy_is_not_the_free_press_editorial.html

[hlthe2b]

27. Very conservative Colorado Springs Gazette tries to have it both ways

https://gazette.com/opinion/editorial-we-need-civility-among-president-and-press-corps/article_fc3ede82-a100-11e8-9f6f-77a17ac6af41.html

EDITORIAL: We need civility among president and press corps

[hlthe2b]

28. I didn't see one from either the SF Examiner or the SF Chronicle....

maybe they think it is understood there...still...

[Princess Turandot]

79. The Chronicle wrote a 'why we're not joining' piece..

https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/diaz/article/Why-the-San-Francisco-Chronicle-isn-t-joining-13159007.php

In addition to references to their past criticism of Trump, they cite a concern that he will use the effort to claim that the media is conspiring against him.

[denvine]

29. The Cincinnati Enquirer

For some reason the link I copied goes to the next page. Just scroll back to A17.

http://cincinnatienquirer.oh.newsmemory.com/?token=e7e5be228ca3590f7b75e60e8c6e1d28&cnum=4023820&fod=1111111STD&selDate=20180816&licenseType=paid_subscriber&

[NastyRiffraff]

30. Washington Post is MIA

Nothing. It would have been up by now.

[hlthe2b]

31. Surprising since they've covered the issue so extensively up to now.

[NastyRiffraff]

35. I know. I'm surprised and disappointed.

[BumRushDaShow]

41. Here is their explanation and run down of other papers

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2018/08/16/trump-responds-after-hundreds-of-newspaper-editorials-criticize-his-attacks-on-the-press/?utm_term=.902063980778

Apparently they claim they have responded before (and I know they have over and over), but even if they simply reprinted the 1st Amendment of the Constitution as their editorial from the board, it would have made a powerful statement.

[defacto7]

32. K&R

[hlthe2b]

33. Idaho Statesman (Boise)

https://www.idahostatesman.com/opinion/editorials/article216777580.html
We’re not the enemy. President Trump, end your war on the free press.

President Donald Trump has veered into perilous territory with his assault on the First Amendment. His references to journalists as the “enemy of the American people” are no less dangerous because they happen to be strategic.

Read more here: https://www.idahostatesman.com/opinion/editorials/#storylink=cpy

[hlthe2b]

34. The real enemy of the people? It's not the press [Editorial] HOUSTON CHRONICLE

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/real-enemy-of-the-people-not-the-press-Trump-13159543.php

[hlthe2b]

36. Dallas Morning News

https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/editorials/2018/08/15/first-amendment-helps-people-hold-elected-officials-accountable

Editor's note: With this editorial, The Dallas Morning News joins more than 200 newspapers across the country that are publishing editorials today on the importance of the First Amendment.

As a candidate and as president of the United States, Donald Trump has waged an unprecedented war of words on the media. He calls the press “amazingly dishonest” and major media outlets such as CNN and The New York Times “fake news.”

If the president sees inaccurate reporting, he should and has the right to call it out and draw attention to the facts. We won’t pretend that every story that has appeared in all of the various outlets that cover the presidency has been without fault. But we also won’t pretend that there isn’t a larger issue at stake here involving a free inquiry by a free press that gets to the very foundation of our republic. --snip-

[BumRushDaShow]

37. Was on the front page of the print edition of the Philly Inquirer

with this pic (also here is the digital version of the editorial from Philly.com) -




Another view of that marker, which is located at the National Constitution Center a block from Independence Hall (which can be seen in the background) -

[hlthe2b]

39. nice

[BumRushDaShow]

42. Found a pic of the front page!

The Philly Daily News (which is the tabloid here and linked to the Inquirer joined in as well) -

[hlthe2b]

43. that's the best so far... Good on them.

[BumRushDaShow]

44. Philadelphia Tribune

(this is our oldest black newspaper here) -

http://www.phillytrib.com/commentary/editorials/philadelphia-tribune-editorial-trump-s-alarming-attack-on-the-media/article_9f580129-68a8-5471-9ceb-d662cab833ac.html

[hlthe2b]

58. Geez, even your conservative Times Herald (Philly) did:

http://www.timesherald.com/opinion/20180815/editorial-president-trump-we-are-not-the-enemy-of-the-people

Editorial: President Trump, we are not the enemy of the people

[hlthe2b]

38. Philadelphia Tribune

http://www.phillytrib.com/commentary/editorials/philadelphia-tribune-editorial-trump-s-alarming-attack-on-the-media/article_9f580129-68a8-5471-9ceb-d662cab833ac.html
Philadelphia Tribune Editorial: Trump’s alarming attack on the media

[hlthe2b]

40. Miami Herald

https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/editorials/article216780730.html
President Trump, we’re not ‘enemies of the people.’ End your war on our free press

Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/editorials/article216780730.html#storylink=cpy

[hlthe2b]

45. Love to see some more from RED STATES.... Anyone want to check your papers of record?

[eleny]

46. "We tell the truth: Denver Post decries Trump's attacks on journalists"

"Journalists in The Denver Post newsroom spend their days in pursuit of the truth.
There’s no political filter or agenda belying their printed words, just a desire to inform the public."

https://www.denverpost.com/2018/08/16/denver-post-truth-in-journalism/

[hlthe2b]

47. soo happy to see DP follow through after all the upheaval... n/t

[blaze]

49. The US Senate just checked in

JUST IN: US Senate passes resolution with unanimous consent by voice vote that “affirms that the press is not the enemy of the people” and “reaffirms the vital and indispensable role that the free press serves” and “condemns the attacks on the institution of the free press.”

Link to tweet

[hlthe2b]

52. Glad to see that!

[madamesilverspurs]

50. Not even a peep

in the Greeley Tribune. Disappointing, not surprising. Editor Nate Miller, who replaced the late Randy Bangert, isn't known for non-partisanship; he doesn't come right out and dis non-Republicans, but he doesn't give us anywhere near the same level of coverage that he gives Republicans. That said, it's rather amazing that he couldn't be bothered to stand up in support of his own profession.


.

[hlthe2b]

55. Fort Collins (Coloradoan) just put theirs up... Glad to see

https://www.coloradoan.com/story/opinion/2018/08/14/what-our-investigative-journalists-expose-isnt-fake-news-column/992760002/

What our investigative journalists expose isn’t fake news

[Hortensis]

51. Not finding it in our north Georgia community paper.

Will look again later just in case.

[hlthe2b]

53. Just checked major AL papers--nada. But I posted some of the TX ones upstream, so that's good

[ismnotwasm]

56. K&R

[hlthe2b]

59. Mississippi's Clarion Ledger did!

https://www.clarionledger.com/story/opinion/columnists/2018/08/15/what-our-investigative-journalists-expose-isnt-fake-news-column/999938002/

[madwivoter]

60. Wisconsin State Journal

https://madison.com/wsj/opinion/editorial/trump-is-an-enemy-of-the-truth/article_3e6b1135-0bc4-5353-ad7e-f0af9091aa54.html

[hlthe2b]

62. Topeka, KS Capital Journal

http://www.cjonline.com/opinion/20180815/editorial-press-isnt-enemy-of-people
Editorial: Press isn’t ‘enemy of the people’

[hlthe2b]

63. Sorry, Pence, your hometown Indianapolis INDY STAR is calling your boss out

https://www.indystar.com/story/opinion/2018/08/16/what-our-investigative-journalists-expose-isnt-fake-news-column/1001291002/

What our investigative journalists expose isn’t fake news

[hlthe2b]

64. Daily Times in East Tennessee (Blount County)

https://www.thedailytimes.com/opinion/our_voice/stop-the-attacks-on-our-free-press/article_1585b63d-9707-5f27-9251-57b3579f6e4a.html

Stop the attacks on our free press

Editor’s note: The Daily Times is one of more than 100 U.S. newspapers to participate in a coordinated editorial response today to President Donald Trump’s repeated attacks on the news media.

[Mad-in-Mo]

65. Joplin, Missouri

http://www.joplinglobe.com/opinion/editorials/our-view-reckless-rhetoric-versus-fundamental-freedom/article_0749685a-1794-5a86-aa0c-0c4d7664afb6.html


Sorry I meant to reply to main thread

[hlthe2b]

67. That's a pretty red area of MO, right?

[Mad-in-Mo]

70. VERY. Reading posted remarks on FB to anything the Globe prints

is downright scary.
https://www.facebook.com/joplinglobe/

[oasis]

66. Let Freedom Ring!

[mcar]

68. Mine did!

Citrus county Chronicle

https://www.chronicleonline.com/opinion/editorials/attacks-on-news-media-irresponsible/article_402bf024-a0ef-11e8-b8ee-9b12f6617e70.html

[Solly Mack]

69. K&R

Link to list of papers

https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/16/politics/newspaper-editorials-trump-list/index.html

[Uncle Joe]

72. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread hlthe2b.

[orangecrush]

73. Erie Times News joined Boston Globe's Free Press Editorial Day

My hometown paper.

[Scurrilous]

74. K&R

[irisblue]

75. Columbus Dispatch

http://www.dispatch.com/opinion/20180816/editorial-whats-value-of-free-press-judge-for-yourself?template=ampart

SNIP...."Our decision to speak out today — a day that newspapers across the country have chosen to send a similar message — is not about politics but about condemning unprofessional, uncivil and dangerous behavior. The president's actions are a calculated effort to obfuscate the truth and undermine the ability of Americans to trust the most reliable sources of information on which to judge the conduct of government officials.

That was Trump's plan even before he became president. He admitted as much to veteran broadcast journalist Lesley Stahl in the midst of his campaign in July 2016. Stahl said she asked Trump why he railed against the press, and he explained, "I do it to discredit you all and demean you all so when you write negative stories about me, no one will believe you."

more at editorial

[Wounded Bear]

80. Seattle Times was a NO for yesterday...

have not seen today's issue yet.

[List left]

82. Didn't see your post

A message from our publisher: 122 years of local stewardship | Inside The Times. “Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.

Can't see the rest behind their paywall.

[List left]

81. Seattle Times published somethng on 8-10

A message from our publisher: 122 years of local stewardship | Inside The Times. “Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy....

Behind paywall, can't see anymore of it.