Remember when a young woman was forced to have plastic surgery because she wasn't beautiful enough? At the end of the show, all the doctors and nurses working on her had pig faces.
Now, those who have been actively suppressing free speech are warning that the Right constitutes the threat.
WaPo's White House corresponded asked Biden's Press Secretary why the White House couldn't censor viewpoints that this MEMBER OF THE PRESS didn't like!
WaPo and the NYT were part of the conspiracy to suppress all mention of Hunter's laptop and any suggestion that the WuFlu came from a lab
A member of the NYT Editorial Board publicly denounced Bari Weiss, a liberal lesbian (not a criticism, just pointing out her credentials), as a "Nazi" cuz her opinions weren't leftist enough. Someone who was at the NYT for a quarter of a century left because of its bias.
But, now, we get this:
One publisher’s call for a free press
(Brian Stauffer for The Washington Post)
(Brian Stauffer for The Washington Post)
Here at Post Opinions, it’s rare that we publish the words of those leading rival media companies. But today, we are making a worthy (and newsworthy) exception, with a trenchant essay on press freedom from New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger. Let him explain: “As the steward of one of the country’s leading news organizations, I feel compelled to speak out about threats to the free press, as my predecessors and I have done to leaders of both parties. I am doing so here, in the pages of an esteemed competitor, because I believe the risk is shared by our entire profession, as well as all who depend on it.”
Sulzberger examines the examples of Hungary, India and Brazil, where strongmen have tried with some success to crack down on independent media. But his real point is about the upcoming election right here in the United States, in which one candidate (Vice President Kamala Harris) is generally pro-free-press and the other (former president Donald Trump) is, well, not.
This piece is fascinating in that the Times’s news side has been and remains careful not to put an outright thumb on the scale in this election, to the point of frustrating a readership that often feels the paper is too guided by right-wing framing. (Mass deportations as a way to free up housing, anyone?) So Sulzberger has some tricky work to do here. He notes that he is “not advising people how to vote.” But, he adds, “the weakening of a free and independent press matters, whatever your party or politics.”