NY Times publisher warns of 'anti-press campaign,' misinformation

The publisher of The New York Times is warning about what he says is a trend of misinformation permeating public discourse and an increasingly hostile posture toward the press taken by leaders around the world.

"This anti-press playbook is now being used here in this country — and it could not come at a more difficult time for the American press," Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger said as part of a speech at the University of Notre Dame that was published in a Times op-ed.

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