Washington Post Executive Editor Martin Baron on CNN’s Reliable Sources on Sunday, October 8 when asked about the state of relations between the Trump administration and the media:
“They’ve created a very hostile atmosphere. It’s not that we had such a wonderful relationship with the previous administration. There’s sometimes an assumption that the press had a warm, cozy relationship with the Obama administration. That wasn’t the case.
“We had a lot of conflicts with the Obama administration. And you may recall that they had more leak investigations against -- involving the press than all previous administrations combined. So, there wasn’t a warm relationship. But it’ been, there’s been a hostility, I think, fomented by the administration over the course of the campaign, and certainly during the course of the administration. That makes it difficult.”
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