'Perilous moment': NY Times publisher warns Trump waging 'frontal attack' on free press

'Perilous moment': NY Times publisher warns Trump waging 'frontal attack' on free press

New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger has said that the United States is currently experiencing an "anti-press campaign," describing it as "the most frontal attack on the American press in a century."In an op-ed in the Times published Tuesday, Sulzberger wrote: "Since 2016, the number of countries deemed to have a 'good' record of protecting press freedom by Reporters Without Borders dropped by more than half. Effectively, in his first term P…

A.G. Sulzberger says the role of a free press is under attack, and that the anti-press playbook used in eroding democracies is now being deployed in the US

A.G. Sulzberger / New York Times: A.G. Sulzberger says the role of a free press is under attack, and that the anti-press playbook used in eroding democracies is now being deployed in the US  —  This essay was originally delivered as a talk at the Notre Dame Kellogg Institute for International Studies on Tuesday.