Tag: Press Freedom

As Jacob Rees-Mogg noted, it would be the death of local newspapers who lack the big budgets and large legal teams with which others can defend themselves. (Image courtesy screenshot)

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British lawmaker Jacob Rees-Mogg just nuked anti-free speech legislators

Tom Rogan · March 6, 2018 6:19 pm

In this 2011 photo, former FIA president Max Mosley arrives at the Leveson inquiry in London. Last month, Mosley's lawyers wrote to a number of British newspapers demanding that they remove references to Mosley's funding of IMPRESS, a state-recognized media regulator, from their articles. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

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Mad Max Mosley and the importance of the First Amendment

Tom Rogan · March 2, 2018 7:53 pm

In this photo from Jan. 20, an opposition member waves a Venezuelan flag during a protest outside of the city's morgue in Caracas, Venezuela. In Venezuela, President Nicolas Maduro and his Marxist supporters have previously clung to power by refusing to schedule regional elections and by jailing and banning its political opponents. Now, the government has announced hastily-scheduled presidential elections, but the most popular opposition candidate, Henrique Capriles Radonski, has been banned from running. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Trump should do more to denounce Latin American socialism

David Unsworth · February 11, 2018 5:01 am

As the Justice Department's principal deputy assistant attorney general, Ed O'Callaghan, talked to reporters on Wednesday, CNN posted a chyron on the bottom of the screen saying: "Trump Admin Touts Misleading Stats to Link Terror, Immigration." (AP Photo/Ric Feld,File)

CNN banner during White House briefing: ‘Trump admin touts misleading stats’

Anna Giaritelli · January 17, 2018 7:14 pm

Flake Condemns Trump for ‘Shameful, Repulsive’ Attacks on Media

Andrew Egger · January 17, 2018 5:22 pm

Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., called President Trump's repeated attacks on the media "shameful" and "repulsive" and said Trump "has it precisely backward." (Senate TV via AP)

Jeff Flake: Congress needs to denounce Trump’s lies or we will walk ‘a very dangerous path’

Anna Giaritelli · January 17, 2018 3:57 pm

Per the study, the federal and congressional investigations into possible collusion between Trump associates and Russia made up more than 20 hours of evening news coverage on the president. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

90 percent of ABC, NBC, CBS analysis on Trump last year was negative, conservative group says

Anna Giaritelli · January 16, 2018 2:23 pm

Jeff Flake noted that both Donald Trump and Russian dictator Joseph Stalin both called the press "the enemy of the people." (AP Photo/Sovfoto)

Jeff Flake compares Trump to Stalin on press freedom

Sean Higgins · January 14, 2018 8:54 pm

No, Donald Trump Is Not the Biggest Global Threat to Press Freedom

Rachael Larimore · January 9, 2018 8:52 pm

Protesters hold copies of the Cumhuriyet newspaper with headlines in Turkish reading: 'We want justice" and placards with pictures of arrested staff, as they protest against a trial of journalists and staff from the newspaper, accused of aiding terror organizations, outside a court in Silivri, Turkey. This case has added to concerns over rights and freedoms in Turkey; the Committee to Protect Journalists' annual report states it has jailed the most reporters in 2017 at 73 total and takes that title for the second year in a row. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Record-high 262 journalists imprisoned around the world in 2017

Anna Giaritelli · December 13, 2017 8:01 pm

A government spokesman confirmed the arrests to Reuters but did not explain why the reporters were arrested. (AP Photo/Thein Zaw)

Two Reuters reporters arrested in Myanmar

Melissa Quinn · December 13, 2017 3:14 pm

Vice President Mike Pence in 2007 co-sponsored a bill called the Free Flow of Information Act, which was aimed at setting strict conditions for when the government can force reporters to give up their confidential sources.

Lawmakers enlist Mike Pence to protect reporters from Trump administration

Pete Kasperowicz · December 4, 2017 5:01 am