Golden Age

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The New Normal?

“You need not be a media historian to notice that we live in a golden age of press harassment, domestic propaganda and coercive efforts to control political debate. 

“The Trump White House repeatedly seeks to discredit the press, threatens to strip broadcasters of their licenses and calls for the firing of journalists and football players for speaking their minds. 

 

“A foreign government tries to hack our elections, and journalists and public speakers are regularly attacked by vicious, online troll armies whose aim is to silence opponents.” 

—Tim Wu, Columbia University law professor, author and columnist, “How Twitter Killed the First Amendment,” The New York Times, Oct. 27, 2017.

• Editorial Comment: So what’s your point?

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