“Most transparent administration ever,” the people in the Trump administration keep saying as they muzzle the press corps, threaten media sources, and withhold information.
Three respected journalists at Stars and Stripes were fired for having the temerity to assert that the newspaper should maintain its historic editorial independence, free of censorship.
Healthy democracies don't do these things. Authoritarian states do.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/stars-and-stripes-editor-reporter-fired-for-insubordination-after-doing-cbs-interview
Augie Ray
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