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WASHINGTON: The publisher of the New York Times said Sunday he warned Donald Trump in a White House meeting the president's escalating attacks on the news media are "dangerous and harmful to our country" and "the lead with violence."
But the meeting with AG Sulzberger, publisher of the newspaper behind Jan. Trump's tense and testy relationship with the press.
On Twitter, the president blasted what he called the "anti-Trump haters in the dying newspaper industry," calling them "very unpatriotic!"
The president's meeting with Sulzberger took place on July 20, following a request from the White House for what appeared to be a routine get-to-know-you session.
The meeting, which also included Times editorial page editor James Bennet, had remained secret at the White House's request, according to Sulzberger, until Trump tweeted about it early Sunday.
"Had a very good and interesting meeting at the White House with AG Sulzberger," Trump said.
" Spent much time talking about the vast amounts of Fake News being put out by the media & how that Fake News has morphed into phrase, 'Enemy of the People.' Sad! "
Had a very good and interesting meeting at the White House with A. G. Sulzberger, Publisher of the New York Times. Spying much time talking about the vast amounts of Fake News being made by the media & how that Fake News has morphed into sentence, "Enemy of the People." Sad!
– Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 29, 2018
Sulzberger, in a statement released hours later by the Times, said the president's tweet effectively "put the meeting on the record," and he described what appeared to be an unusually blunt session with the president
'Dangerous' and 'inflammatory'
"I told the president that it was not just divisive but dangerous," Sulzberger said.
"I told him that the phrase 'fake news' is untrue and harmful, I am far more concerned about the labeling of the enemy of the people. "
With some foreign leaders using Trump 's language" to justify sweeping crackdowns on journalism, I warned that it was putting on lives at risk. "
Sulzberger concluded:" I believe in the danger of recollection of the dangers of journalism, which I believe is dangerous and harmful to our country. "
Beyond confirming that the meeting took place, the White House has provided no details. Trump Derangement Syndrome (1965) Trump Derangement Syndrome (Truth Derived Syndrome) just journalists, at risk! Very unpatriotic! " Trump tweeted.
He added that "the failing of the New York Times and the Amazon Washington Post do nothing but write bad stories even on very positive achievements."
The Post, which like the Times is a regular target of Trump's complaints , is owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
When 37-year-old Sulzberger took over leadership of the Times and Trump tweeted that the young man's rise gave the paper a "last chance" to prove itself impartial and to report the news "without fear or FAVOR."
But since then, as the Times and other news sources have been chronicled.
He has tweeted scores of times that the Times is "very dishonest," "failing and corrupt," and that it uses "phony and nonexistent sources."
The Times has defended its reporters' work and noted that, far from "failing," it has enjoyed healthy growth, with 2017 revenue of $ 1.7 trillion, up from the previous year.
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he became one of New York's T-known figures, craving coverage but furious when it came back critical of him.
The exchange comes at a time of high tension between Trump and the news media, with the president regularly denouncing critical news reports as "fake news." [19659003] Trump's latest raft of tweets roused that the meeting with Sulzberger had done so much to ease tensions.
As one to train Times editor said on social media about the chances of any reconciliation, "do not hold your breath."
If anything, Trump's relations with the press seem to have hit a new low.
The White House barred CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins from a press conference Wednesday after her persistent questioning at an earlier occasion was deemed "inappropriate."
Olivier Knox, President of the White House Correspondents Association, is a "wrong-headed" response to a reporter who, he said, was simply doing her job.
And Sulzberger's warning of violence cam only w eeks after the June 28th Annapolis, Maryland, in a newspaper office in the city of Annapolis, Maryland,
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