{"id":69274,"date":"2026-03-18T05:55:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T10:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/trump-now-calls-war-reporting-treason-his-attacks-on-the-press-are-escalating-fast-margaret-sullivan\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T05:55:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T10:55:23","slug":"trump-now-calls-war-reporting-treason-his-attacks-on-the-press-are-escalating-fast-margaret-sullivan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/trump-now-calls-war-reporting-treason-his-attacks-on-the-press-are-escalating-fast-margaret-sullivan\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump now calls war reporting \u2018treason\u2019. His attacks on the press are escalating fast | Margaret Sullivan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US president is using the language and the strategy of authoritarians once again<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s nothing completely new in Donald Trump\u2019s latest attacks on reporters.<\/p>\n<p>But they\u2019re more extreme now and ever more indicative of what he wants: a docile press that provides propaganda \u2013 not factual journalism \u2013 for everything he does, including for his misguided war in Iran.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/mar\/18\/trump-media-war-reporting-treason\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US president is using the language and the strategy of authoritarians once again There\u2019s nothing completely new in Donald Trump\u2019s latest attacks on reporters. But they\u2019re more extreme now and ever more indicative of what he wants: a docile press that provides propaganda \u2013 not factual journalism \u2013 for everything he does, including for &#8230; <a title=\"Trump now calls war reporting \u2018treason\u2019. His attacks on the press are escalating fast | Margaret Sullivan\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/trump-now-calls-war-reporting-treason-his-attacks-on-the-press-are-escalating-fast-margaret-sullivan\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump now calls war reporting \u2018treason\u2019. His attacks on the press are escalating fast | Margaret Sullivan\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}