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In second term, will Trump punish news outlets that anger him?

Consider This from NPR

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🗓️ 11 November 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

During the campaign, President-elect Trump called for reporters to be imprisoned and for media outlets to lose their licenses over unfavorable coverage, Will he make good on the threats?

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0:00.0

Since his first term in office, President-elect Donald Trump has had an antagonistic relationship with the press, to say the least.

0:09.0

A few days ago, I called the fake news the enemy of the people, and they are.

0:13.6

Can you give us a question?

0:14.9

I'm not going to give you a question. Can you stay categorical?

0:17.0

You are fake news.

0:18.3

I'll tell you what, CNN should be ashamed of itself having you working for them.

0:22.8

You are a rude, terrible person.

0:25.4

He's called for media outlets like CBS and ABC to lose their licenses over unfavorable coverage.

0:32.0

Like here he is on Fox and Friends after ABC hosted this year's presidential debate.

0:36.5

I mean, to be honest, they're a news organization.

0:39.6

They have to be licensed to do it.

0:41.7

They ought to take away their license for the way they did that.

0:44.5

And the press was front of mind again as he spoke at a Pennsylvania rally just a couple days before the election, reflecting on another potential assassination attempt.

0:54.0

To get me, somebody would have to shoot through the fake news.

1:01.0

And I don't mind that so much.

1:05.0

Media outlets like The New York Times have been preparing for what a second Trump term might look like.

1:11.5

Executive editor Joseph Kahn recently spoke to NPR.

1:14.2

The publisher devoted a team of people in a significant effort to looking at the ways in which the rule of law, protections for the press, could be worn away by either authoritarian leaders or by populist leaders who rally

1:31.0

their supporters against independent media.

1:34.2

Consider this. Donald Trump has suggested that in his second term, he will take on the press

1:39.5

with more than just words. So, just how might he do it? And how will media organizations respond?

1:50.0

From NPR, I'm Elsa Chang.

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