Media: The campaign to silence Trump critics

Donald Trump is escalating his crusade to use government power to “police journalism” and “silence opposition,” said The New York Times in an editorial. Last month, CBS warned late-night host Stephen Colbert against airing a pretaped interview with Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico, saying it would violate the regulation known as the “equal time rule.” CBS axed the segment out of fear of Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr, an über Trump partisan who has decreed...