Even for a president who has made attacks on media routine, past few days have seemed turbo-charged. Within five days, President Donald Trump has tweeted a video of CNN logo bursting into flames, asserted that two Washington Post reporters should be barred from White House and got into a tweetstorm with singer John Legend and his wife, model Chrissy Teigen after an MSNBC program on criminal justice reform. He also summoned Fox News’ John Roberts to Oval Office to complain about cover of Sharpie-expanded Hurricane Dorian forecast map. He called a reporter for New York Times an “Obama today.” A Washington Post piece about Trump’s “lost summer” and dragged-out flap over president’s claim about Alabama’s vulnerability to hurricane were two stories that seem to leave him particularly irked. He tweeted over weekend that he would like to stop talking about story, but media kept bringing it up. “y always have to have last word,” he said.

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News organizations eir back or igre Trump

Post story, published a week ago, suggested Trump had wasted time over summer with self-inflicted controversies and squandered opportunities. News organizations targeted by Trump eir struck back or igred him. Many raised terms 'free press' to assert ir rights. y said that Trump is a threat to media.

Post’s executive editor, Martin Baron, said paper stood behind its reporters. “ president’s statement fits into a pattern of seeking to denigrate and intimidate press,” Baron said. “It’s unwarranted and dangerous, and represents a threat to a free press in this country.”

Trump and his aides offered new evidence to buttress his claim that early forecasts said re was a chance Dorian could brush Alabama. He called in Fox’s Roberts last Thursday to Oval Office to show similar material. That was also same day Fox anchor Shepard Smith delivered a blistering fact check on some of president’s claims. Fox would t comment on published reports that president also wanted to vent to Roberts about Smith.

Speaking on issue Nancy Gibbs, faculty director of Harvard University’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, said, “I’m reluctant to declare one moment or ar a turning point on this hairpin road we’ve traveled se past few years. But when we are arguing about wear, we are in a new place...That is why we can’t separate crises of trust and truth... less we trust institutions, wher government ncies or media or business or civil society groups, more likely we are to believe junk news and partisan garb. And that’s a danger to all of us.”

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White House Secy and supporters stand for Trump

Similarly, White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham and a press aide, Hogan Gidley, wrote an op-ed titled “ Washington Post’s lost summer” that was published in Washington Examiner on Thursday. y said newspaper had igred many of Trump’s “well-documented victories.” For example, y wrote that Post did t write about Trump’s efforts to tighten sourn border and ease elimination of student debt for wounded veterans. But Post later provided links to its cover of those stories, leading website Mediaite to write, “White House press secretaries publish op-ed claiming Washington Post didn’t cover stories paper actually did cover.” Over weekend, Trump tweeted that reporters who wrote Post piece, Philip Rucker and Ashley Parker, should t be allowed on White House grounds because ir reporting “is so DISGUSTING & FAKE.” Trump supporters cheered a president who is taking on press directly. “ media has never suffered such body blows before from a Republican, and it is truly driving m insane,” wrote William Marshall in a column on conservative website Townhall.com.

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