Tag: Freedom of the Press

No, I am not talking about the recent Atlantic article that quotes President Donald Trump calling US war dead as losers or repeats the disparaging remarks he made about the late Senator John McCain. This is something new that missed my radar but was brought to my attention by one…

Just this past Saturday, I wrote about a conference that I attended at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee about freedom of the press around the world. In that article, I showed that the United States currently ranks 48 in press freedom…and I think that next review we won’t even be…

Yesterday was World Free Press Day. And to help celebrate it, the University of Wisconsin’s Institute of World Affairs had a panel discussion: Silenced! Navigating Global Threats to Press Freedom. And they handed out a couple of flyers including one on free press ranking worldwide from Reporters Without Borders. And…

Riffing off a comment by a former NY Times editor, Donald Trump tweeted this: Of course “Fake News” and “Enemy of the People” is just the president bloviating and creating his own false narrative to energize his base BUT: the Free Press absolutely becomes AN “Opposition Party” no matter who…

for the record: de·co·rum /dəˈkôrəm/ noun behavior in keeping with good taste and propriety: Well so far, whether in his rallies, his inauguration speech, his contacts with the press, in his international relationships, his ‘tweet storms’, etc., it is surprising that the president has the word decorum in his vocabulary….

I don’t remember if it was during the second or third debate that Donald Trump gloated that he was spending a lot less on his campaign than Hillary Clinton. But he was correct…and it’s because he has been able to manipulate the media and keep on the top lead of…