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2026年3月18日 美国东部时间上午10:09 更新于1小时前
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- 特朗普及其盟友在公众对战争支持率低迷的情况下，加大对媒体战争报道的批评力度
- 特朗普以叛国指控升级言论
- 白宫女发言人称，媒体中许多人正试图诋毁特朗普、其政府及美军
纽约，3月18日（路透社） – 美国总统唐纳德·特朗普及其盟友正就伊朗战争的报道批评新闻机构。政府称这场冲突对美国”进展顺利”，但却不受公众欢迎，并已使中东陷入混乱。
尽管特朗普多年来一直贬低他认为不利的新闻报道，但他最近的言论标志着对新闻媒体威胁的升级。一些新闻自由倡导者担忧战时新闻界受到寒蝉效应影响，并指出美国宪法保障言论和新闻自由。
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根据3月1日路透社/益普索民调显示，只有四分之一的美国人支持美国和以色列2月份对伊朗发动的袭击。约一半美国人（包括四分之一的共和党人）认为特朗普过于愿意动用军事力量。至少有13名美国军人在这场战争中丧生。
周五，对战争报道的批评力度加大。国防部长彼得·黑格塞特在新闻发布会上点名批评美国有线电视新闻网（CNN），称该网一篇基于消息源的报道称政府低估了霍尔木兹海峡石油运输风险”纯属荒谬”。黑格塞特表示，希望CNN新任所有者大卫·埃里森尽快接管该网络。
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白宫随后发送电子邮件指控CNN”撒谎”，以破坏美军行动”压倒性成功”的叙事。
CNN董事长兼首席执行官马克·汤普森在给路透社的声明中表示：”我们坚持我们的新闻报道。”
“假新闻媒体”
美国联邦通信委员会（FCC）主席布伦丹·卡尔周六在X平台（原推特）发文称，播放”假新闻”的广播公司在执照续期前有机会”纠正错误”。他的言论附有特朗普当天早些时候在Truth Social上的帖子截图，特朗普在帖中声称”卑鄙的’报纸’和媒体实际上希望我们输掉战争”。
美国联邦通信委员会已有40多年未吊销过电视台广播执照，特朗普政府若因报道吊销执照，可能面临基于第一修正案（保障新闻自由）的诉讼。
特朗普周日晚间在Truth Social发文，指控未具名的”假新闻媒体”与伊朗合作传播人工智能生成的美国航母起火图片，并表示这些媒体应被指控叛国。
伊朗官方媒体曾虚假宣称伊朗军队击中了该航母，但西方多家媒体未广泛报道这一说法，反而发布文章揭穿显示舰船起火的视频是伪造的。
特朗普提到的”叛国罪”在美国法律中最高可判处死刑，这将他对媒体的威胁提升到了新高度。特朗普长期以来一直称新闻界为”假新闻”和”美国人民的敌人”，他曾用”猪猡”、”卑鄙小人”等侮辱性词汇个人攻击个别记者。
财政部长斯科特·贝森特在CNBC表示，主流媒体对战争的报道反映出”对特朗普总统的厌恶”。
“特朗普总统是对的，”白宫女发言人奥利维亚·威尔士在声明中称，”媒体中许多人正加班加点地试图诋毁特朗普总统、他的政府以及美国军队，同时为一个近50年来一直杀害美国人的政权摇旗呐喊。这完全是一种耻辱。”
特朗普长期批评媒体
哥伦比亚大学奈特第一修正案研究所执行主任贾米尔·贾费在声明中表示，总统近期的言论是”长期以来将新闻机构与他自己的政治和意识形态议程更紧密对齐的努力的升级”。
“特朗普总统有权批评他认为不准确或不公平的报道，但第一修正案赋予新闻机构自行决定报道内容和方式的权利，”贾费说，”如果说有什么是宪法基石的话，那就是这一点。”
共和党顾问让妮特·霍夫曼表示，政府在影响媒体机构方面取得了一些成功，例如派拉蒙决定支付1600万美元解决特朗普对哥伦比亚广播公司（CBS）的诉讼，特朗普称CBS欺骗性剪辑了对他2024年总统竞选对手前副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯的采访。
“当并购和待审批交易与联邦通信委员会相关时（如CNN的收购案），许多公司容易受到政府威胁，因此你可能会看到一些公司重新考虑其报道和编辑策略，”霍夫曼说。
共和党政治策略师杰森·罗有时批评特朗普，但他认为特朗普的论点有一定道理：即媒体淡化了美军在战争中的成功。
罗曾批评特朗普，但表示如果战争能相对迅速结束并最终被视为成功，特朗普此次抨击媒体的言论可能会被视为”唐纳德·特朗普言辞过激中的又一个小插曲”，最终可能不会”产生任何持久影响”。
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Trump and his allies use familiar tactic to help Iran war messaging: attacking the press | Reuters
By Helen Coster and Nathan Layne
March 18, 2026 10:09 AM UTC Updated 1 hour ago
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- Trump, allies intensify criticism of media coverage of war amid low public support for conflict
- Trump escalated rhetoric with claims of treason
- White House spokeswoman says many in media working to discredit Trump, administration and US military
NEW YORK, March 18 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump and his allies are attacking news organizations for their coverage of the Iran war, a conflict the administration says is going well for the United States but is unpopular with the public and has plunged the Middle East into chaos.
While Trump has for years disparaged news coverage he deems unfavorable, his recent comments mark an escalation of threats against the news media. Some press freedom advocates worry about a chilling effect on journalism during wartime, and point to freedoms of speech and the press enshrined in the Constitution.
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Only one in four Americans approves of February strikes by the United States and Israel on Iran, according to a March 1 Reuters/Ipsos poll. About half – including one in four Republicans – believe Trump is too willing to use military force. At least 13 U.S. service members have died in the war.
Criticism of reporting on the war ramped up on Friday, when Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at a news conference singled out CNN, calling a source-based report “patently ridiculous” for saying the administration had underestimated risks to oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz. Hegseth said the sooner CNN’s new owner David Ellison takes over the network, the better.
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The White House followed up with an email accusing CNN of “lying” to undermine the military operation’s “crushing success.”
CNN Chairman and Chief Executive Mark Thompson said in a statement to Reuters: “We stand by our journalism.”
‘FAKE NEWS MEDIA’
U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr on Saturday posted on X that broadcasters who air “fake news” now have a chance to “correct course before their license renewals come up.” His remarks were accompanied by a screenshot of Trump’s Truth Social post earlier in the day claiming “Lowlife ‘Papers’ and Media actually want us to lose the War.”
The FCC has not revoked a broadcast TV station license in more than 40 years, and any attempts to do so by the Trump administration because of reporting would likely be met with lawsuits grounded in the First Amendment, which protects the freedom of the press.
In a Sunday evening post on Truth Social, Trump accused unspecified “fake news media” of working with Iran to spread AI-generated images of a burning U.S. aircraft carrier and said they should be charged with treason.
Iranian state media had falsely claimed Iranian military struck the carrier. But the assertion was not widely reported by Western outlets, several of which instead published accounts debunking the videos showing the ship on fire as fake.
Trump’s reference to treason — a charge that carries a maximum penalty of death under U.S. law — took his threats against the media to a new level. Trump has long labeled the press as “fake news” and “the enemy of the American people.” He has personally attacked individual reporters with insults such as “piggy” and “sleazebag.”
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on CNBC that mainstream media reporting of the war reflected “a dislike for President Trump.”
“President Trump is right,” said White House spokeswoman Olivia Wales in a statement. “Many in the media are working overtime to discredit President Trump, his Administration, and the United States military while carrying water for a regime that has killed Americans for nearly 50 years. This is a complete disgrace.”
TRUMP HAS LONG CRITICIZED MEDIA
Jameel Jaffer, executive director at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, said in a statement that the president’s recent rhetoric was an intensification of a “long-running effort to bring news organizations into closer alignment with his own political and ideological agenda.”
“President Trump is free to criticize news coverage he thinks is inaccurate or unfair, but the First Amendment gives news organizations the right to decide for themselves what to report, and how to report it,” Jaffer said. “This is constitutional bedrock, if anything is.”
Jeanette Hoffman, a Republican consultant, said the administration has had some success in exerting influence over media outlets, pointing as an example to Paramount’s decision to pay $16 million to settle a lawsuit filed by Trump claiming that CBS News deceptively edited an interview with his 2024 presidential rival, former Vice President Kamala Harris.
“A lot of these companies are vulnerable to government threats when mergers and pending deals are on the line with the FCC – as in the case of CNN – so you may see some rethink their coverage and reporting strategies,” Hoffman said.
Jason Roe, a Republican political strategist, said that while he doesn’t necessarily agree with the president’s approach, he sees some merit in Trump’s argument that the media has downplayed U.S. military successes in the war.
Roe, who has been critical of Trump at times, said if the war is resolved relatively quickly and viewed ultimately as successful, Trump’s latest comments bashing the press will likely be seen as “one more blip in the rhetorical excesses of Donald Trump” that in the end probably won’t “have any lasting impact.”
Reporting by Helen Coster and Nathan Layne in New York; Editing by Donna Bryson and Deepa Babington
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