Donald Trump Steps up His Attacks on Journalists – and on America’s Democracy

Donald Trump steps up his attacks on journalists – and on America’s democracy

Recent arrests of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort mark serious escalation of an increasingly authoritarian President’s demonization of the fourth estate

Don Lemon Made the Headlines, but Georgia Fort’s Arrest Shows No Journalist Is Safe

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent Famed journalist Don Lemon may draw the headlines, but Emmy-winning independent reporter Georgia Fort and Trahem Jenn Crews and Jamael Lydell Lundy were also taken into custody as federal agents moved against four Black journalists whose only apparent offense was documenting protests critical of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. Lemon, a veteran broadcaster and longti…

Editorial: The Whit stands with Don Lemon and Georgia Fort

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No Journalist Is Safe After Georgia Fort’s Arrest – NJ Urban News

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent Famed journalist Don Lemon may draw the headlines, but Emmy-winning independent reporter Georgia Fort and Trahem Jenn Crews and Jamael Lydell Lundy were also taken into custody as federal agents moved against four Black journalists whose only apparent offense was documenting protests critical of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. Lemon, a veteran broadcaster and longti…

Don Lemon Made the Headlines, but Georgia Fort’s Arrest Shows No Journalist Is Safe – The Tennessee Tribune

NNPA NEWSWIRE — Don Lemon, a veteran broadcaster and longtime critic of President Donald Trump, was arrested late Thursday night in Los Angeles after livestreaming an anti-ICE demonstration connected to a January protest at a St. Paul, Minnesota, church. A short time later, Fort, a respected Minnesota-based journalist, was arrested by federal agents in her home state for reporting on the same protest, according to public statements and court rec…

Don Lemon Made the Headlines, but Georgia Fort’s Arrest Shows No Journalist Is Safe – Free Press of Jacksonville

NNPA NEWSWIRE — Don Lemon, a veteran broadcaster and longtime critic of President Donald Trump, was arrested late Thursday night in Los Angeles after livestreaming an anti-ICE demonstration connected to a January protest at a St. Paul, Minnesota, church. A short time later, Fort, a respected Minnesota-based journalist, was arrested by federal agents in her home state for reporting on the same protest, according to public statements and court rec…