President Richard Nixon didn't love the press, and plenty other presidents were critical at times.
But never has the press been attacked like this before by any other president. President Donald Trump has earned that distinction, calling the press “the enemy of the American people." Those who crafted the U.S. Constitution certainly didn't feel that way.
On Sunday at 3 p.m., supporters of the First Amendment hold a “Not the Enemy” rally outside the Detroit News and Free Press building on 16 Mile and Mound Road in Sterling Heights, reports Steve Neavling of Motor City Muckraker.
Protesters are encouraged to bring signs.
“All Americans should be distressed that certain press outlets are being prohibited from White House briefings, otherwise known as ‘gaggles,'” says organizers of the event on Facebook. “In response, the AP and Time Magazine boycotted today’s briefing. In the wise words of Thomas Jefferson: ‘Our liberty cannot be guarded but by the freedom of the press, nor that be limited without danger of losing it.’
“This type of behavior cannot be tolerated in a free society.”
