Donald Trump awarded for undermining press freedom: CPJ
Source: Daily Star
11:18 AM, January 09, 2018 / LAST MODIFIED: 11:31 AM, January 09, 2018
United States President Donald Trump among other top world leaders was awarded for his overall achievement in undermining press freedom, Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has said.
The CPJ came up with the remark after five days in response to Trumps announcement via Twitter about his planned fake news awards on January 3.
Trump, by contrast, has consistently undermined domestic news outlets and declined to publicly raise freedom of the press with repressive leaders such as Xi, Erdoğan, and Sisi. Authorities in China, Syria, and Russia have adopted Trump's "fake news" epithet, and Erdoğan has applauded at least one of his verbal attacks on journalists, CPJ said.
Under Trumps administration, the Department of Justice has failed to commit to guidelines intended to protect journalists sources, and the State Department has proposed to cut funding for international organisations that help buttress international norms in support of free expression, it added.
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sandensea
(21,672 posts)Not the circle of friends U.S. presidents - or most democratic heads of state - normally keep.
Rhiannon12866
(206,072 posts)Yet somehow he'll double down and make it seem like one...