by jpitney | Mar 8, 2020 | Civility, Freedom of Press, Presidency
President Gerald R. Ford, Remarks at the Dedication of the Anderson Independent and Anderson Daily Mail Building in Anderson, South Carolina, October 19, 1974: Now I happen to differ with those who categorize the journalists I know, and others, as a different kind of...
by jpitney | Jan 12, 2020 | Freedom of Press, Uncategorized
James Madison, The Report of 1800: Again, it is no less obvious, that the intent to defame or bring into contempt or disrepute, or hatred, which is made a condition of the offence created by the act; cannot prevent its pernicious influence, on the freedom of the...
by jpitney | Dec 15, 2019 | Freedom of Press, Journalism, Russia, Uncategorized
No this is not a joke. After killing dozens of journalists for exposing the crimes of the Putin regime, the Russian government tweets out their recognition of Remembrance Day of journalists killed in the line of duty. https://t.co/C0jUyvu4es — Bill Browder...
by jpitney | Dec 8, 2019 | Congress, Dreier, Freedom of Press, Journalism, Uncategorized
Nelson Oliveira at The New York Daily News: Washington, D.C., is home to numerous memorials and monuments honoring Americans who have sacrificed their lives for the country. But the U.S. capital lacks a permanent memorial dedicated to those who were killed while...
by jpitney | Dec 2, 2019 | China, Freedom of Press, Journalism, Uncategorized
Fred Hiatt at The Washington Post: To punish Gulchehra Hoja, a Washington-based journalist for Radio Free Asia, and to stifle her reporting, China’s rulers have imprisoned her brother, harassed her parents and threatened many other relatives back home in Xinjiang,...
by jpitney | Nov 29, 2019 | Freedom of Press, Uncategorized
From the Committee to Protect Journalists: The Saudi Arabian government must immediately end its arrest campaigns against journalists and free all those who have been jailed for their writing, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. From November 16 to 21,...
