In Vermont, a mayoral Muzzle for silencing the police and freezing out the press; plus, media notes

Burlington Mayor wins New England Muzzle Award While VT Mainstream Media Downplays Gag Order

Bold moves to limit or even prohibit free-speech were once the currency of conservatives like Donald Trump and Ron Desantis. Now it's being spent by Democrats and Progressives like it replaced the dollar. Vermont's mainstream media has reacted with outrage by free-speech limitations in the past, but when it came to Burlington Mayor Emma Mulvaney-Stanak's demand to control what the police tell the public, complicit journalists described the actio…

In Vermont, a mayoral Muzzle for silencing the police and freezing out the press; plus, media notes

Church Street Marketplace in Burlington, Vt. Photo (cc) 2017 by Kenneth C. Zirkel. It might be high-handed for a mayor to order her police chief to funnel all public statements through her office, but it isn’t necessarily such an outrage that it warrants a coveted New England Muzzle Award. But to compound that by announcing she would have a press availability to which not all local news organizations were invited — well, come on down and claim y…