As UN Rights Chief Warns Trump's Press Attacks 'Close to Incitement of Violence,' Newspapers Ready Coordinated Response
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Trump's anti-media rhetoric could "set in motion a chain of events which could quite easily lead to harm being inflicted on journalists just going about their work."
by: Julia Conley
The UN human rights chief has called President Donald Trump's attacks on press freedom "close to incitement of violence." (Photo: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images)
Amid international outcry over President Donald Trump's treatment of the news media, more than 100 newspapers are planning to publish editorials this Thursday pushing back against his repeated claims that journalists are "the enemy of the people" and defending their right to cover his administration and actions.
Denouncing Trump's "dirty war on the free press," the Boston Globe wrote to dozens of news outlets acro...