How to Fix a Squeaky Wheel

“It’s the criminalization of journalism by the Trump Justice Department and the gravest threat to press freedom, by far, under the Trump presidency, infinitely worse than having Donald Trump tweet mean things about various reporters at CNN or NBC. Every journalist in the world should be raising their voice as loudly as possible to protest and denounce this.”

—Glenn Greenwald, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and co-founder of The Intercept, reacting on “Democracy NOW!” to the arrest of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in London, April 11, 2019. Image: Screen capture from video of Assange being trundled from his seven-year sanctuary in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London/CBS.

 

• Editorial Comment: When all the loud-mouths and opposition leaders are gone, then what? Paging George Orwell. . . .

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