How you feel about President Trump’s criticisms of the press depends on how accurate you think the press has been when covering him. If you believe the press has been willfully inaccurate to the point of delegitimizing itself, any criticism of the press is warranted, even if it comes from a president. If you think the press has been an honest broker of facts, you might believe that criticizing the free press is something only dictators do. Former president Jimmy Carter, who no one would call a dictator, said this about press coverage of President Trump: “I think the media have been harder on
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