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Tue Jun 14, 2016, 10:12 PM Jun 2016

Donald Trump Takes A Page From The Autocrat’s Media Playbook

Donald Trump’s attacks on the press has drawn comparisons to Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Turkey’s Tayyip Erdoğan.

On Monday evening, Reporters Without Borders issued a statement that “strongly and unequivocally condemns this latest act of hostility toward the press as a serious violation of press freedom.”

This latest infringement of press freedom didn’t take place in Russia, Turkey, or Ecuador, countries with autocratic leaders whose hostility toward the the media usually prompts such condemnations from international advocacy groups. It happened in the United States.

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump announced Monday afternoon on Facebook that his campaign was revoking The Washington Post’s press credentials after the paper, briefly, published a headline online that he considered unfair.


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