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America’s leadership is waging a war against the journalistic standards and practices that underpin not only a free press but our democracy. The Fourth Estate is withering under an unprecedented White House assault designed to intimidate, smear and discredit investigative journalism — and allow the president and his political cronies to lie with impunity. If left unchecked, this and future administrations will continue to:
* manipulate the media "message" by producing propaganda, putting journalists on the government payroll and tightly scripting all public events;
* dismiss all dissenting views in the media as biased and politically motivated;
* undermine public trust in journalism using the right-wing “echo chamber” to sow hostility toward reporters who challenge the official line; and
* eliminate access to information making it nearly impossible for journalists to investigate vast swathes of the federal government.
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