Last month, more than 300 American newspapers colluded — if the word fits — to simultaneously publish editorials declaring themselves, contra Trump, not "the enemy of the people." Shortly thereafter the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a resolution declaring that it too did not consider the press to be, in a phrase that evokes the rhetoric of the former Soviet Union, state enemies.
The Boston Globe organized this journalistic flash mob.
"The greatness of America is dependent on the role of a free press to speak the truth to the powerful," the Globe's editorial board wrote. "To label the press 'the enemy of the people' is as un-American as it is dangerous to the civic compact we have shared for more than two centuries."
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