From Trump's Twitter Feed to Dictators' Mouths
A partial list of the world leaders taking their cues from the U.S. president’s fight with the press
Donald Trump has assailed the media many times since he became president in January. He labeled The New York Times, a publicly traded company in the midst of a subscription resurgence, “failing,” threatened to pull NBC’s license, and has referred to stories he deems critical or unfair as “fake news.”
Criticism of the media isn’t new—nor is criticism of the media by an American president. Barack Obama famously with Fox News and other conservative media outlets, in addition to initiating more prosecutions against journalists and whistleblowers; George W. Bush famously the press; and Bill Clinton’s testy relationship with the media has been well-chronicled since the 1980s.
