The report from the Committee to Protect Journalists (that monitors press issues around the world) catalogues Trump’s anti-press actions, from claims of “fake news” to threats to yank broadcast licenses; it says It also cites the president’s harassment of media companies — at a time when the nation faces the unprecedented challenge of the coronavirus,. Trump’s calls for boycotts of news organizations and for changes in libel laws to punish reporting he doesn’t like; the ending of formal White House press briefings for more than a year; and Trump’s repeated lies to discredit accurate reporting."