All posts tagged "free press"
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Authoritarianism
Police Shoot Photojournalist In Leg With Rubber Bullet, Then Arrest Him In Minneapolis
May 31, 2020WCCO’s award-winning veteran photographer Tom Aviles was struck in the leg by a rubber bullet and...
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Authoritarianism
NY Times Reporter Rebukes Trump For Using ‘Stalinist Language’ To Attack The Free Press
April 24, 2019Nicholas Kristof, a New York Times op-ed columnist, on Tuesday denounced President Trump’s latest attack on...
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Authoritarianism
Kushner Told Columnist That She Could Get Back In Trump’s ‘Good Graces’ With Positive Coverage: Report
September 8, 2018New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd said that President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner,...
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NEWS
Trump Falsely Brags Poll Showed Him With Approval Rating Above 50 Percent, Remains Silent After Latest Mass Shooting
August 26, 2018President Trump bragged about an incorrect polling number while taking a hit at the “Fake News...
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Authoritarianism
Boston Globe Gets Bomb Threat Hours After Tweet Attack By Trump
August 16, 2018A bomb threat was reported at the Boston Globe on Thursday, hours after President Trump lashed...
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Authoritarianism
Reagan’s Daughter: ‘My Father Would Have Been The First To Stand In The Way’ Of Trump’s Anti-Press Attacks
August 16, 2018Patti Davis, the daughter of former President Ronald Reagan, wrote a scathing op-ed criticizing President Trump’s...
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Authoritarianism
A Majority Of Republicans Think Trump Should Have Power To Shut Down News Outlets: Poll
August 7, 2018Nearly half of Republicans, 43 percent, say President Trump “should have the authority to close news...
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Authoritarianism
UN Human Rights Experts: Trump Is Violating Basic Rights With His Attacks On The Press
August 3, 2018David Kaye, the UN’s Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression, and Edison Lanza, Special Rapporteur of...
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Authoritarianism
CNN’s Acosta Fires Back At Hannity: He’s ‘Injecting Poison Into The Nation’s Political Bloodstream’
August 2, 2018CNN chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta fired back at Fox News host Sean Hannity on...
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NEWS
White House Aide Shouts Down CNN’s Jim Acosta As He Attempts To Ask Trump Questions
July 30, 2018A White House staffer was caught on camera yelling at CNN chief White House correspondent Jim...
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Authoritarianism
Trump Repeatedly Ordered Aides To Ban Jim Acosta And April Ryan From Covering Him: Report
July 27, 2018President Trump reportedly told White House officials to ban CNN’s Jim Acosta and American Urban Radio...
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DEMOCRACY
Fox News Host Shep Smith To Trump: ‘Journalists Are Not The Enemies Of The People’
July 26, 2018Fox News chief news anchor Shepard Smith declared during his afternoon newscast on Thursday that “journalists...
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Authoritarianism
WH Correspondents’ Association Denounces White House For Banning CNN Reporter: ‘It Cannot Stand’
July 25, 2018The White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) released a statement slamming the White House for banning a...
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Authoritarianism
Veterans Of Foreign Wars Denounces Members Who Cheered At Trump’s Latest Attack On Press
July 24, 2018The Veterans of Foreign Wars released a statement on Tuesday expressing “disappointment” that its national convention...