re: Thoughts on Civil War (spoilers)

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Is shooting journalist an official trump policy that I missed?

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I said Trump-like. Among the two sides in the movie, one side allowed the press to embed with the military units, the other side did not allow any journalist access.

cpj.org/reports/2020/04/trump-media-attacks-credibility-leaks/

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It was all typical of the Trump presidency’s unprecedented hostility toward the press. Trump has habitually attacked the news media in rallies, responses to reporters’ questions, and many hundreds of tweets. He has repeatedly called the press “fake news,” “the enemy of the people,” “dishonest,” “corrupt,” “low life reporters,” “bad people,” “human scum” and “some of the worst human beings you’ll ever meet.” As Trump told Leslie Stahl of CBS News shortly after he was elected president in 2016, he has been trying to destroy the credibility of the news media’s reporting about him.

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