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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIt's no surprise that the press just recently turned on Trump.
Egypt planned to arrest a New York Times reporter. The Trump administration reportedly wanted to let it happen.
In late 2017, the New York Times received an urgent warning from a U.S. official. Egyptian authorities were looking to arrest Declan Walsh, the newspapers reporter in Cairo, according to its publisher. Its not unusual for a large media organization to get tipped off about threats to its journalists overseas, particularly those reporting on authoritarian governments.
But what was striking is what the official said next: The Trump administration had tried to keep the warning about Walsh from ever reaching the Times. Officials intended to sit on the information and let the arrest be carried out, Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger wrote in an opinion column on Monday.
This incident, described publicly by Sulzberger for the first time in a talk at Brown University earlier on Monday, adds a chilling new episode to the administrations trend of attacking the press and diminishing the rights of journalists as they come under threat around the globe, the publisher wrote.
Where the United States was once seen as the top defender of press freedom, Sulzberger suggested Trump has inspired the opposite around the globe, citing recent threats made in an address by the Cambodian prime minister, a social media blackout in Chad, and attempts to arrest foreign journalists in Egypt, whose autocratic president Trump once jokingly called his favorite dictator.
In late 2017, the New York Times received an urgent warning from a U.S. official. Egyptian authorities were looking to arrest Declan Walsh, the newspapers reporter in Cairo, according to its publisher. Its not unusual for a large media organization to get tipped off about threats to its journalists overseas, particularly those reporting on authoritarian governments.
But what was striking is what the official said next: The Trump administration had tried to keep the warning about Walsh from ever reaching the Times. Officials intended to sit on the information and let the arrest be carried out, Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger wrote in an opinion column on Monday.
This incident, described publicly by Sulzberger for the first time in a talk at Brown University earlier on Monday, adds a chilling new episode to the administrations trend of attacking the press and diminishing the rights of journalists as they come under threat around the globe, the publisher wrote.
Where the United States was once seen as the top defender of press freedom, Sulzberger suggested Trump has inspired the opposite around the globe, citing recent threats made in an address by the Cambodian prime minister, a social media blackout in Chad, and attempts to arrest foreign journalists in Egypt, whose autocratic president Trump once jokingly called his favorite dictator.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/09/24/trump-declan-walsh-ag-sulzberger-egypt/
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It's no surprise that the press just recently turned on Trump. (Original Post)
RandySF
Sep 2019
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They didn't "just turn on him." The reported something that was big enough to cause action.
NCLefty
Sep 2019
#1
Did he know about the bonesawing of a journalist by Saudis in advance too?
Liberty Belle
Sep 2019
#2
NCLefty
(3,678 posts)1. They didn't "just turn on him." The reported something that was big enough to cause action.
But that's their job.
That was a shitty thing he did to that journalist, of course.
Liberty Belle
(9,528 posts)2. Did he know about the bonesawing of a journalist by Saudis in advance too?
stopdiggin
(11,095 posts)3. the "just recently" part doesn't really fit
a well described pattern of complete hostility toward the press that Trump has embraced from the very beginning. There has been little secret, and a very short learning curve, regarding just exactly where Trump stood in relation to a free press. So the idea that the media has become suddenly "woke" to a rancid, sometimes threatening, environment ...