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Assaults on press freedom, here and abroad, endanger democracy (Guest Opinion by Roy Gutterman)


Assaults on press freedom, here and abroad, endanger democracy (Guest Opinion by Roy Gutterman)
Updated Apr 30, 2021;
Posted Apr 30, 2021
Supporters of President Donald Trump break TV equipment outside the the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. AP
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Roy S. Gutterman is an associate professor and director of the
at the Newhouse School at Syracuse University.
In 1991, a group of international journalists and press freedom advocates convened in Windhoek, Namibia, to forge a declaration for press freedom for media, governments and citizens around the world.
The Declaration of Windhoek on Promoting and Independent and Pluralistic African Press incorporated the United Nation’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 19, which calls for press freedom around the world. The Windhoek Declaration has been annually memorialized through UNESCO’s World Press Freedom Day, recognized on May 3. ....

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When a Judge Dares to Call Out Leftist Media Bias


By Tim Graham
| April 23, 2021 | 10:16am EDT
Featured is a gavel sculpture, located by the Supreme Court of Ohio. (Photo credit: Raymond Boyd/Getty Images)
New York Times Supreme Court reporter Adam Liptak recently sounded the alarm with a headline that read, The Supreme Court s Increasingly Dim View of the News Media. Naturally, he was upset that some conservative judges aren t fond of the 1964 New York Times v. Sullivan decision, which makes it nearly impossible for public figures to sue media outlets for libel, since the mind-reading standard of actual malice must be established.
Liptak began by complaining about Judge Laurence H. Silberman, who s not on the Supreme Court but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. In a recent dissent, Silberman wrote, Two of the three most influential papers (at least historically), ....

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