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What threatens press freedom today?
May 05,2021 - Last updated at May 05,2021
BERLIN Donald Trump’s presidency was bookended by the White House pushing “alternative facts” about the size of the crowd at Trump’s inauguration at the US Capitol and his violent supporters scrawling “Murder the Media” on the Capitol’s doors. While Trump is gone (for now), professional media remain at risk and not just in the United States. The watchdog group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) considers the state of press freedom “good” in a mere 12 countries fewer than ever before.
The most obvious threat to press freedom around the world emanates from authoritarian regimes, some of which have doubled down on restricting the press to prevent reporting on political leaders’ failings during the pandemic. In Hungary, which slipped to 92nd place in RSF’s world ranking of press freedom, from 89th place last year, the government has threatened media outlets with prosecution for “bl
It is true that two cliches central to our political language today â âresilienceâ and, indeed, âinfrastructureâ â have often covered up a lack of real public policy justifications. But the fact is that Bidenâs plan is in one sense not ambitious enough: it does not address the countryâs decaying civic infrastructure.
Infrastructure is about connecting people; it enables us to reach others and be reached by them. Roads, but also the post office, are paradigmatic examples. The culture war rhetoric of Republicans has made it sound as if the main problem of those âleft behindâ is the condescension of supposedly liberal-cosmopolitan-bicoastal elites who have nothing else to do than sneering at âreal Americansâ. But plenty of people are left behind because itâs hard to reach them, and hard for them to reach out: deregulation made airplane tickets to remote parts of the country horrendously expensive; buses and trains, if the