Smearing the messenger: Trump’s tactical war on journalism

The U.S. president targets reporters because they expose the truths he doesn't want exposed.
U.S. President Donald Trump, seen here during a campaign rally in Phoenix in 2016, railed against the media during a similar event in the city last week.
In the early 1970s, before the Parti Québécois won its first election in 1976, René Lévesque made an appearance at the National Press Club in Ottawa. In the middle of Lévesque’s disquisition on the necessity of Quebec separation, my father stood up and said, “That’s bullshit,” and walke...

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