How Foreign Journalists See Trump's First Hundred Days with the Press

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

78% : But Trump has another very distinctive characteristic.
74% : Marco Sifuentes, founder of the Peruvian news site La Encerrona, who is based in Spain: Trump has a dynamic with the press that we Latin Americans are well aware of.
64% : Just ask Bill Owens from 60 Minutes. Patrícia Campos Mello, editor at large at Folha de S.Paulo in Brazil: Trump has refined his press-bashing skills.
62% : For foreign journalists in the US -- regardless of legal status, whether asylum, working visa, or green card -- covering the government and reporting on facts is now a dangerous task.
54% : The media's coverage of Trump seems correct, as I see it.
52% : After Trump won in November, Joel Simon -- who worked at the beginning of his career as a freelance journalist in Mexico and Central America, and went on to monitor global press-freedom issues as head of the Committee to Protect Journalists -- made the case in CJR that newsrooms should learn to approach the US with the humility of a good international reporter, and that the latter's experience would also be instructive in navigating a climate of heightened press threats.
48% : Yesterday, Kyle Paoletta reported on the legal battle for transparency around Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE; today, Aida Alami spoke with White House correspondents about how Karoline Leavitt, the press secretary, has made the briefing room a surreal place.
43% : Several found a working opportunity at Voice of America [the US-funded international broadcaster that Trump is trying to gut].
41% : But Trump is back and the US is living through another frightening period, albeit with different specifics.
35% : Trump smelled that tear in our continuum and went straight through it -- and many corporate owners surrendered.
33% : Moussa Ngom, head of La Maison des Reporters, an investigative outlet in Senegal: The relationship between Trump and the press seems chaotic, viewed from here.
31% : All media have been downsizing, and there aren't enough journalists to cover the avalanche of executive orders and decisions that Trump makes.
30% : ("In recent years, the international community has sounded the alarm on the deteriorating political and human rights situation in the United States under the regime of Donald Trump," it began.
26% : Carlos Dada, of El Faro in El Salvador, said that Trump would likely give Nayib Bukele, that country's authoritarian leader, carte blanche to continue dismantling its democracy in exchange for cooperation on migration -- a prediction that has proven shockingly correct, shockingly quickly.
22% : It is striking, however, how much the Second Age of Trump has almost made the quality of covering his presidency irrelevant -- reporters' work is playing second fiddle to the relationship between Trump and the owners of media corporations.
22% : With the weaponization of the Federal Communications Commission headed by Brendan Carr, controllers of a few networks and publications are pressuring journalists not to be so hard on Trump.
18% : Not only have ABC -- and now likely CBS, too -- created terrible precedent [by settling defensible lawsuits brought by Trump or, in the latter case, reportedly moving in that direction], they have also weakened the entire structure of the media's edifice.

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