An oped that my fellow professor of journalism James McManus at Emerson College and I co-wrote recently, published in The Wire:
As the newly-sworn in United States President Joseph Biden begins his tenure, he has a lot of salvaging to do from the wreckage left by his predecessor.
One of the more disturbing messages arising out of the attack by violent pro-Trump insurrectionists at the US Capitol on January 6 involved frightening threats to a free press. Scrawled on a door at the building were the words: “Murder the Media.”
That pithy, vile phrase represented the raw culmination of five years of rhetorical attacks by Donald Trump and his political allies against critical media coverage.
Read the rest of the oped here: Why Restoring Press Freedom Globally Should Take Precedence on Biden’s Priority List
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