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With his verbal attacks on media representatives, US President Donald Trump is jeopardizing the safety of journalists, according to the editor of the New York Times. He warned Trump that this seditious rhetoric "would help increase threats against journalists and lead to violence," said Sunday the director of the publication, A. G. Sulzberger. Critical coverage of his policies, such as the award-winning "New York Times," has repeatedly worked on "false news." Criticism of the reporters, he repeatedly calls "enemies of the people".
The context of Sulzberger's remarks is a conversation with Trump at the White House. Trump had written on Twitter Sunday that he had had "a very good and interesting encounter" with Sulzberger. The New York Times then stated that at the request of the White House, the meeting would have remained confidential on July 20. After Trump himself made the conversation public, Sulzberger decided to publish the content.
Sulzberger said that he had told the president that he was "not only polarizing but more and more dangerous". think. This is especially true abroad, where some governments use Trump 's rhetoric as an excuse to attack journalists. "I have warned that life is in danger, that it weakens the democratic ideals of our nation and that it compromises one of our greatest export badets." : a commitment to freedom of expression and a free press, "writes Sulzberger. We have been talking for a long time about the amount of "fake news" broadcast by the media, and about how the term "enemies of the people" has evolved – sad! "
Sulzberger: Trump's language leads to violence against journalists
Sulzberger's criticism did not mention Trump.The publisher reported after Trump's tweet that he had told the president that the term "false news" was false and prejudicial.It is even worse to call the journalists "enemies of the people." He considered that Trump's attacks against the media "were dangerous and harmful. to our country "and invited him to reconsider his behavior, explained the editor
Sulzberger, 37, had taken over his father's New Yorker Traditionsblatt on January 1. Trump tweeted at the time that it was the" last chance "of the newspaper to Since then, the "NYT" has made a critical report on the private and political affairs of the US President – and the newspaper has repeatedly described it as "very dishonest" and "suspected of bankruptcy and corrupt. "
Hours after the meeting, Trump again attacked critical media, naming the" New York Times "and the" Washington Post. "The two newspapers" do nothing but write bad stories about very positive achievements – and they will never change! "If the media reported internal considerations to the government, it would endanger many people, not just journalists." Very unpatriotic! "It is unclear what the President of the United States specifically mentioned the allegation.
Trump continued in a series of Twitter posts: "Freedom of the press has the responsibility to report the news correctly, and 90% of my government's media coverage is negative, despite the tremendous positive results we are getting. " He added, "I will not allow our great country to sell anti-Trump hatred in the dying press industry." He really wrote anti-Trump enemies.
Trump also disagrees with many other American media. A few days ago, the White House banned a CNN reporter from attending the press conference with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker. Reason had been "inappropriate" questions she had asked at another press conference earlier in the day
Other journalists, including competing broadcasters, argued CNN. Even Fox News reporter Bret Baier, whom critics describe as the hype of US President Donald Trump, wrote on Twitter that Fox News was "firmly behind CNN" on this point.
