Presidents vs Press, then and now by Kurtis Lee

Source: Los Angeles Times
Date: Sunday, February 19, 2017
Article: Presidents vs Press, then and now
Writer: Kurtis Lee
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1. Which two U.S. Presidents had problems with the press?
2. Trump wanted to speak with his supporters “without the filter” of the press.  What does this sentence mean to you?
3. Trump tweeted that the media was not his enemy, but the “enemy of the American people!”  What does this mean to you?
4. Who is a professor of history at New York University and former director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library?
5. Who said this in 1807, “Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper.  Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle”?
6. Who wrote this, “The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, in as much as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors”?
7. Who faced criminal charges, was fined $10,000 for tax evasion, and received three years of probation?
8. Who has labeled the press as the “opposition party”?
9. What is the approval rating of U.S. President Trump in the Gallup Poll?
10. Who said, “The press can take care of itself quite nicely, and a president should be able to take care of himself as well”?
11. What is your opinion on U.S. President Trump declaring was on the media?