Very, Very Bad

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The View From Abroad

“‘It’s really quite amazing when you think that freedom of the press, not only a cornerstone of the Constitution but very much something the United States defended over the years, is now itself under attack from the president himself. It’s a stunning turnaround. . . . .’”

“Mr. al-Hussein said the president’s demonization of the news media was ‘poisonous because it has consequences elsewhere.’ If a journalist were to be harmed, he asked, ‘does the president not bear responsibility for this, for having fanned this?’”

 

—Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, United Nations high commissioner for human rights, in Nick Cumming-Bruce’s “U.N. Human Rights Chief Condemns Trump’s Attacks on Media,” The New York Times, Aug. 30, 2017.

• Editorial Comment: Sad.


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