Cases abound of how the “Covid-19 excuse” has led to the inability of journalists to do their job of reporting medically endorsed effective public health measures, or to challenge lethal disinformation.
“Because journalism is not The New York Times, or BuzzFeed, or the Miami Herald. When you strip everything down to its essential function, journalism is a system for collecting, synthesizing, verifying and distributing news. Everything else is just form.”
“If we see press freedom not as heroic isolations — journalists breaking free to tell truths to the publics they imagine — but as a subtler system of separations and dependencies that make publics, then we might see each era’s types of press freedom as bellwethers for particular visions of the public.”
So far in 2017, U.S. Press Freedom Tracker says, there have been 19 arrests of journalists, 12 equipment searches and seizures, 11 physical attacks on journalists, and 4 border stops of journalists.
Owen, Laura Hazard. "Has U.S. press freedom gotten worse under Trump? A new site aims to find out." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 2 Aug. 2017. Web. 14 Oct. 2024.
APA
Owen, L. (2017, Aug. 2). Has U.S. press freedom gotten worse under Trump? A new site aims to find out. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved October 14, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2017/08/has-u-s-press-freedom-gotten-worse-under-trump-a-new-database-aims-to-help-find-the-answer/
Chicago
Owen, Laura Hazard. "Has U.S. press freedom gotten worse under Trump? A new site aims to find out." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified August 2, 2017. Accessed October 14, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2017/08/has-u-s-press-freedom-gotten-worse-under-trump-a-new-database-aims-to-help-find-the-answer/.
Wikipedia
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