Let’s remember when President Truman insulted the Spokesman-Review, on this day in 1948 (June 9)
Politicians insulting the press is as old as time. It’s just something you can expect. Here’s one example from 70+ years ago.
On June 9, 1948, President Harry S. Truman (1884–1972) calls The Spokesman-Review in Spokane one of the two worst newspapers in the country. Truman is on a whistle-stop campaign swinging through Spokane when he spots a Spokesman-Review reporter and declares, “The Chicago Tribune and this paper are the worst in the United States.” Subsequent remarks make it clear that Truman objects chiefly to those papers’ Republican-leaning editorial policies. He said they were responsible for the “worst Congress in the United States you’ve ever had.” He later smiles at the reporter and says, “Nothing personal to you, young man.” But on a subsequent visit to Spokane on October 1, 1952, Truman again calls The Spokesman-Review “the second-worst newspaper in the United States.”
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