Trump’s War on the Media Is Just the Beginning

Two decades after Iraq, the media is once again folding under pressure. What is behind Trump's war on the press?

by Ben Cohen

I started a version of The Banter (then The Daily Banter) all the way back in 2006. It was a blog built on a shoestring budget with a close friend from college. We had been outraged by the U.S.-U.K. invasion of Iraq during our time at university and believed the news media in both countries had shamed themselves by allowing it to happen with…