As tempo of Trump's media war rises, the unthinkable becomes possible

By Paul McGeough
Updated February 27 2017 - 1:09pm, first published 10:44am

Washington: By the measure of his spokesman Sean Spicer, Donald Trump is tracking towards dictatorship – how else to explain Spicer barring "enemy" reporters from a White House media briefing, just weeks after he said open media access was "what makes a democracy a democracy versus a dictatorship".