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Press: Enemy of the People?

In its editorial today, the Coeur d'Alene Press Editorial Board writes:

One week ago, the American news media went to DEFCON 1, attack imminent.

A nuclear warhead crudely initialed MSM had just been launched from the cellphone of President Donald J. Trump. In a tweet, his weapon of choice, the commander in chief called the news media “the enemy of the American people.”

We in the news media have been called many things by many people over the past couple of centuries, and sometimes the admonishments have been well-deserved, if not downright self-inflicted. But we’re not all cut from the same cloth. More here.



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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