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<\/span><\/figure>\nThe Manhattan billionaire said he would instead be holding “great meetings” about who to appoint to his cabinet.<\/p>\n
He also tweeted: “The failing @nytimes just announced that complaints about them are at a 15 year high. I can fully understand that – but why announce?”<\/p>\n
However, Jonathan Mahler, a political correspondent for the daily, tweeted that it was the president-elect who had tried to change the rules of engagement.<\/p>\n
He said Mr Trump had asked for the discussion to be private and off-the-record, but the newspaper had refused.<\/p>\n
A New York Times spokeswoman said it had only learned the meeting had been cancelled when he tweeted.<\/p>\n
A Trump spokeswoman, Hope Hicks, later suggested that Tuesday’s face-to-face with the newspaper’s executives could be back on.<\/p>\n
The New York Times has been reporting on potential conflicts of interest Mr Trump could face between his business interests and the presidency.<\/p>\n
On Monday evening, Mr Trump invited leading figures from the American TV networks for an off-the-record briefing at Trump Tower, where they were subjected to a tirade about election reporting.<\/p>\n
The media executives and anchors – including NBC’s Lester Holt, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer and ABC’s George Stephanopoulos – were apparently expecting to discuss coverage of his presidency.<\/p>\n
But instead Mr Trump reportedly labelled them “liars” and called journalists the “lowest form of humanity”.<\/p>\n
One attendee leaked the details to the New York Post, saying: “The meeting was a total disaster.<\/p>\n
“The TV execs and anchors went in there thinking they would be discussing the access they would get to the Trump administration, but instead they got a Trump-style dressing down.”<\/p>\n
The New York Times reports that during his complaint about “dishonest” coverage Mr Trump singled out CNN president Jeffrey Zucker.<\/p>\n
According to the Washington Post, Mr Trump also referred to NBC’s Katy Tur and ABC’s Martha Raddatz, without naming them.<\/p>\n
But Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway said the meeting was “very cordial”.<\/p>\n
Throughout his campaign Mr Trump accused the media of dishonesty, sometimes targeting individual journalists at his rallies and even denying some outlets accreditation to his events.<\/p>\n
He feuded with Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly, who later alleged that he had offered her gifts, including hotel stays, in an attempt to influence coverage.<\/p>\n
The presenter said she was not the only journalist who had been offered freebies by Mr Trump.<\/p>\n
Two weeks after his shock election victory, Mr Trump has yet to hold a news conference, and US media outlets have griped that no president-elect has delayed holding a press briefing for so long since Jimmy Carter in 1976.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Donald Trump has cancelled a meeting with the New York Times, a day after berating media chiefs at his headquarters for “unfair” coverage. Without elaborating, the US president-elect accused the newspaper of changing the terms of the meeting. He tweeted: “They continue to cover me inaccurately and with a nasty tone!” Mr Trump has had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":270726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[107],"tags":[3,109],"yoast_head":"\n