CPJ: press freedom must endure the American World Cup

CPJ: press freedom must endure the American World Cup

The last time the men’s World Cup came to the United States, in 1994, my Midtown Manhattan office filled with colleagues from Central and South America who embodied the passion for the Beautiful Game. What the rest of the world knows as football and Americans know as soccer took over a glorious summer that delivered an epic championship carried live on Spanish-language television network Univision and simultaneously on the Spanish-language talk …