‘Journalism is on notice’

‘If the press does not defend its freedom now, it will lose it’

Georgia Fort at Newsweek

The White House “recently launched a new webpage on its official government website titled ‘Media Offenders,’” but this is “not routine media criticism,” says Georgia Fort. It is “government intimidation without oversight, and it should set off alarms in every newsroom in the country.” This is a “code red moment. The warning signs have been building for years.” Flagging “journalists as ‘offenders’...