The President and the Press
Nixon used wiretaps, leak hunts and press exclusions to pressure reporters, while the Pentagon Papers and Watergate exposed the limits of that strategy.
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Media as Punching Bag from Nixon to Trump
Presidents regularly attack journalists to undermine credibility and avoid accountability. Richard Nixon used Spiro Agnew to relentlessly blast television networks for alleged bias. Donald Trump applies identical tactics to delegitimize reporters, intentionally damaging public trust in news organizations. But reporters must aggressively defend their absolute duty to expose deceptive government misconduct.
The President and the Press
—TIMEBerating reporters, revoking credentials, suing news organizations—hardly a week goes by without Donald Trump’s attacking the press. An experienced commander of headlines and inveterate consumer of media, he cajoles journalists one day and harangues them the next. But the man who preceded Trump as the President to appear most often on the cover of TIME reigned supreme in media manipulation too. Well before Trump railed against fake news, Ri…
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