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Media leadership unity in defying Trump’s assault on free speech: standing tall against historic comparisons
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Benjamin Franklin said in his first newspaper in 1722, “without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom, and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.”
Key facts
- This deal was closed after Paramount/CBS made an unjustified $16 million payment to the Trump Presidential Library after the false allegation that a normally edited interview with his rival candidate
- Finally recognizing the mutual existential threat, The Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, ABC, CBS, and the American Newspaper Publishers Association joined forces to formally back the Times
- And then a year later, after the death of CNN Founder Ted Turner, WBD/CNN was cleared for purchase by the Ellisons as well
- They showed the same support for Danny Pearl, a renowned journalist kidnapped in 2002 in Pakistan and tragically later beheaded
Summary
On this 250th anniversary of America’s founding, there is no right more deeply cherished and foundational than the First Amendment of the US Constitution, which is unambiguous: “Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.
It is easy to fall into the trap of being nostalgic for the “good old days” of journalism.