Headline Roundup • August 17th, 2018
350 Newspapers Coordinate Editorials Critiquing Trump's Press Rhetoric
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CNN (Opinion)
If the media can speak with one voice on the critical issue of press freedom, perhaps even the President will have to listen.
CBS News (Online)
If you are a Trump voter who thinks that much of the press is reflexively hostile to the president, 300 of America's leading newspapers want you to know that you might be on to something.
Associated Press
Newspapers from Maine to Hawaii pushed back against President Donald Trump’s attacks on “fake news” with a coordinated series of editorials in defense of a free press on Thursday — and, not surprisingly, Trump didn’t take it silently.
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