The following article by Kenneth T. Walsh was posted on the U.S. New website October 13, 2017:
The battle is raging but President Donald Trump seems to be losing ground.
President Donald Trump seems to be losing some ground in his war with the news media, but the public remains deeply split on which side to trust.
Trump, confident that his base is just as angry with journalists as he is, has begun a new anti-media campaign on several fronts. He is questioning whether NBC’s broadcasting license should be renewed, complaining about an NBC story claiming that Trump wanted a tenfold increase in U.S. nuclear weapons, which the president angrily denies. He told reporters Wednesday it was “disgusting” that “the press is able to write whatever it wants to write.” Trump also said on Twitter that television outlets might need to have their licenses “revoked” if they persist in spreading “fake” news. This could be pure bluster because such action probably would be declared unconstitutional by the courts. And in any case, licenses are granted by the Federal Communications Commission to local stations, not national networks such as NBC. But media defenders saw Trump’s attacks as, at minimum, an attempt at intimidation. Continue reading “Trump vs. the Press”