Trump's speech against the press is "dangerous and harmful" (New York Times boss)

Washington – The New York Times boss said Sunday he warned President Donald Trump, whom he met about ten days ago in the White House, that his speech against the media was "dangerous and harmful" .
  

" I told the president directly that I thought his speech was not only a factor of division but was becoming more and more dangerous ," said AG Sulzberger in a statement confirming the meeting. held on July 20 at the request of the White House.

" I implored him to reconsider his vast attacks on journalism, which I think are dangerous and harmful to our country ," said Sulzberger.

million. Trump had tweeted about this interview earlier Sunday, referring to " a very good and interesting encounter ".

" Have spent a lot of time talking about the vast amounts of Fake News being published by the media and how these Fake News have morphed into a phrase, + Enemy of the People + Sad! ", he added, without providing further details.

The general media as a whole, which he regularly calls " Fake News Media " when they are not favorable to him, are attacked relentlessly by the president. including the New York Times.

The newspaper, one of the most prestigious in the United States, said in a statement that Mr. Sulzberger and James Bennet, head of the NYT's editorial page, had gone to the White House for what was supposed to be to be a confidential meeting.

" But with Mr. Trump's tweet this morning, the meeting was placed in the public domain, so AG decided to respond to the description of their conversation, based on his notes and James's "said the NYT.

" My main purpose in accepting this meeting was to raise my concerns about the president's extremely unsettling anti-press rhetoric ," said the successor to his father Arthur Ochs Sulzberger in early 2018. as director of the NYT publication.

" I told him that although the phrase + Fake News + is false and harmful, I was much more concerned about his qualification as" enemies of the people "+ ", he brings back.

" I warned him that this incendiary language contributed to an increase in threats against journalists and would incite violence ," said 37-year-old Arthur Gregg (AG) Sulzberger. also insisted that " is particularly true abroad ".

" The rhetoric of the president is used by some regimes to justify widespread repression against journalists ," he denounced. " I warned him that it was putting lives at risk, undermining the democratic ideals of our nation and affecting one of our country's greatest areas of influence: the commitment to freedom of expression and freedom of the press ".