The Post is a timely reminder of the struggle between press freedom and government lies | Peter Greste

Steven Spielberg’s new film about Nixon’s attempt to gag the US press remains disturbingly relevant

You know something is amiss when a US-based foundation dedicated to monitoring and defending press freedom around the world feels compelled to set up a website to track it in the one place that has always held itself up as a beacon of free speech – the United States itself.

Earlier this year, the Freedom of the Press Foundation launched the US Press Freedom Tracker, along with 20 partners, including the Committee to Protect Journalists, Reporters Without Borders and the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. The site logs anything it regards as a threat to press freedom including arrests and assaults of journalists in the course of their jobs.

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