Free Press Campaign

America’s
leadership is waging a war against the journalistic standards and
practices that underpin not only a free press but our democracy. The
Fourth Estate is withering under an unprecedented White House assault
designed to intimidate, smear and discredit investigative journalism —
and allow the president and his political cronies to lie with impunity.
If left unchecked, this and future administrations will continue to:



   
* manipulate the media “message” by producing propaganda, putting
journalists on the government payroll and tightly scripting all public
events;



    * dismiss all dissenting views in the media as biased and politically motivated;



   
* undermine public trust in journalism using the right-wing “echo
chamber” to sow hostility toward reporters who challenge the official
line; and



   
* eliminate access to information making it nearly impossible for
journalists to investigate vast swathes of the federal government.

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