Committee to Protect Journalists
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UK Bill Could Chill Online Speech with Criminalization Threat: Report
November 3rd, 2021 5:10 PM
Free speech advocates beware! A new bill out of the United Kingdom would reportedly criminalize internet trolling that is deemed to cause “likely psychological harm.”
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Lefty Writer Offer Bribe For Someone to Ask Trump About Fake Country
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January 15th, 2018 11:49 AM
American journalists have decided to take a page out of a Russian troll’s book, in order to build their own narrative. Jezebel contributor and purported comedian Sara Benincasa tweeted out on January 13 that she would offer $300 to “the journalist who very seriously asks Trump his opinion on our nation’s relations with Wakanda and gets the question and answer recorded live on video.”
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Journalists Give Trump ‘Award’ for ‘Undermining Global Press Freedom'
January 9th, 2018 2:57 PM
In a bitter attempt to smear President Trump as a dictator, on Monday, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) placed the American commander-in-chief on a list filled with authoritarian leaders that the organization labeled the world’s worst “press oppressors.”
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CNN Media Panel: Trump Is Leading World Dictators on Press Crackdown
December 17th, 2017 4:36 PM
If you thought CNN’s open anti-Trump hysteria couldn’t get any wilder, then buckle up, because at the end of Reliable Sources on Sunday host Brian Stelter led a segment dedicated to press crackdowns by dictators and how the President’s “fake news” call-outs were helping them. Stelter began the segment with a monologue about the case of “award-winning Mexican journalist, Emilio Gutierrez, and his…
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Columnist: Trump an Enemy of the Media, Just Like Hugo Chavez
February 24th, 2017 5:19 PM
Almost fifteen years ago, South Park paid tribute to a trailblazing animated TV series by calling an episode “The Simpsons Already Did It.” According to Columbia Journalism Review columnist Joel Simon, regardless of the current hubbub over President Trump’s media-bashing, several “Latin American populist” heads of state, including the late Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, already did it, or…
Committee to Protect Journalists Denounces 'Chilling Effect' of Rosen
May 21st, 2013 3:53 PM
In statement released on Tuesday, the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, Joel Simon, issued this warning against the Obama Justice Department investigating Fox News reporter James Rosen: "U.S. government efforts to prosecute leakers by obtaining information from journalists has a chilling effect domestically and sends a terrible message to journalists around the world…