Standing Up For — And Honoring — Press Freedom
The Radio Television Digital News Association presented its annual First Amendment Awards to leading broadcast journalists Thursday evening, providing a platform for those reporters and others to express their deep concerns about the Trump administration’s on-going efforts to suppress press freedoms and to encourage each other to resist them.
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The First Amendment is facing challenging times: Crackdowns on campus protests prompted both-sides claims of intolerance. Attempts to head off dangerous health misinformation have been characterized as violations of free speech. Donald Trump is publicly punishing news outlets that deviate from his administration’s version of events while privately suing some outlets into submission.
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