Abridging the freedom: Trump and the media

The Trump administration’s relations with the media, which began as shocking and outrageous, have become predictably, dangerously normalized.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One on April 5, 2018.
As cockeyed as the organizational chart of Washington’s power distribution is these days, perhaps the most altered relationship is the one between the president and the press. While Donald Trump’s relentless lies, belligerence and intractability have skewed the conventional dynamic between this ...

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