White House Representative Association detained Her annual festive dinner on Saturday evening. Only this year was more sad than celebration – and a good reason. Since it returned to power in January, and during the last month, the Trump administration launched a comprehensive attack on the news and media.
As news NBC Explain“The Trump administration has had many skirmishes with the press in recent months.
Her latest effort to bring the press to the heel came on April 25, when news I leaked from the intention of the Ministry of Justice To follow the journalists who receive information leaked from the sources of the secret government. When implementing, policy will give management another tool to make correspondents miserable and provide the basis for imprisonment for those who resist.
While not journalists We are Nowadays in prison in this country to take their jobs, prosecute and punish them It is a regular part of the arsenal of repressive systems around the world. The atmosphere of the American press is not in any way.
April alone witnessed a great escalation of threats.
For example, on April 5, Republican Senator Marcin Molin from Oklahoma celebrated the thirteenth anniversary of a shooting accident between a journalist and a former member of Congress inside the Capitol in the United States suggestion In our time, “There are a lot that we can say about the correspondents and the stories they write, but I bet they will write false stories much less – as President Trump says,” fake news ” – if we can deal with our differences in this way.”
On April 14, the White House I released the details of the details entitled“NPR, PBS GRIFT has been separated for a long time.” She did not hide her desire to punish them for her broadcast content, which is a clear violation of the first modification. His concerns included, “In 2020, NPR refused to cover the explosive Hunter Biden laptop scandal in the preparation process for the elections, claiming that there are” many red flags “and” its assurances do not reach much. And “in 2024, PBS produced a documentary film made.” The White House concluded that “for years, American taxpayers were on a hook to support the national public radio (NPR) and public broadcasting service (PBS), which publishes radicalism, and denies advertising as” news “.
To provide its concerns, the Trump administration Plans to ask Congress “to cancel 1.1 billion dollars of already dependent financing for public broadcasting.”
On April 16, the Chairman of the Federal Communications Committee, Brendan Carkast – accused MSNBC and NBC News – of “violating broadcasting licenses”. Cherry He said“The Comcast outlets spent days misleading the American public-as Abrgo Garcia was just an American citizen giving you the law, just” Maryland’s man “. When you ignore the truth, he ignores it.
This brings us back to the Prosecutor Bond and the Ministry of Justice Trump.
Guardian Reports Bondi “canceled the policy of the administration’s administration’s era that restricts the summonses of the reporters of the correspondents in the criminal investigations … The memo says that federal employees who leak sensitive information to the media for” personal fertilization purposes and undermining our foreign policy, national security, and government effectiveness “can be behaved as” discrimination. “
The Public Prosecutor concluded that the Guardian continues, saying: “It is necessary to cancel the policies of Merik Garland, which prevents the Ministry of Justice from searching for convincing records and certificates from media members in order to determine and punish the source of improper leaks.”
Among other things, this policy Not allowedS. Investigators reach “phone records for journalists to try to identify stories that describe classified information.” When he issued this policy, former public prosecutor Garland said, “These regulations recognize the decisive role that the free and independent press plays in our democracy.”
“Because freedom of the press,” Garland notes, “The news media personnel must have the freedom to investigate and report news, and the new regulations aim to provide reinforced protection for news members of law enforcement tools and procedures that may be unreasonable.”
More than fifty years ago, Supreme Court Judge Hugo Black also I realized the importance of that freedom After the Pentagon papers dating back to the era of Vietnam to the New York Times and the Washington Post. Black also said, “In the first amendment, the founding fathers gave the free press for protection that must be forced to achieve its primary role in our democracy … The government’s authority has been canceled to monitor the press so that the press remains free forever in blame the government.”
The press, Black explained, “It was protected so that it can bear the secrets of the government and inform people. Only the free and unrestricted press can effectively display the government.”
“In my opinion,” Black concluded, “The condemnation due for their courageous reports, the New York Times, Washington Post, and other newspapers must be praised to … reveal the work of the government that led to the Vietnam War … (and did) specifically what the founders were hoping and reliable.”
How did the times change.
The new Bondi’s note leaked the media to publish materials “that undermine President Trump’s policies, government agencies of the victim, and harm (s) harm to the American people.”
This activity described illegal and illegal, the Public Prosecutor said that she will be personally responsible for agreeing to “efforts to interrogate or arrest media members.”
There you have. Journalists are notified that if they published materials, they “undermine President Trump’s policies”, they may be arrested.
We know how this goes. A story is published. The journalist is called and asks for a secret source. The result of bad results. The source is detected and tried. After that, others get the message and fear to reveal the information that the administration wants to hide. Or that the journalist does not reveal his source, is held in the court’s contempt, and goes to prison.
All this is possible because in January this year, while they still have a majority, Democrats in the Senate Failure to pass the alleged press law. This law, which had the support of the two parties and unanimously passed in the House of Representatives, was aimed at “protecting the source of the source journalist, taking into account the exceptions of proper, such as cases that involve terrorism, other dangerous emergencies, or the suspected journalists.”
will Covered “Any person who collects regularly, prepares, collects, combines, pictures, records, records, editing, reports, investigations, or publishing news or information related to local, national, international, or other issues of public interest for the public … and not only professional journalists.”
President -elect Trump opposed her and The name Republicans have to “kill” the bill. Since he made his way, the Public Prosecutor can now mobilize the federal government resources to send journalists to prison just to do their job.
When you do so, the American people will be the real victims, and democracy will take another devastating success.
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