"How Trump’s War On The Media Is Expected To Ramp Up In His Second Term"

"Donald Trump’s second term promises to deliver historic threats to US press freedom – directly from the Oval Office.

The president-elect made it clear during the campaign that he had the press in his sights. He told a rally on the eve of the election that he “wouldn’t mind” if an assassin shot the journalists standing in front of him.

Ahead of the election, he also signalled his desire to jail journalists, hunt down their confidential sources, cancel the broadcast licences of major networks and criminalise work to counter disinformation.

Journalists in the US – a country long at the forefront of global press freedom advocacy – now find themselves facing threats more familiar to their colleagues in the Philippines, Hungary or Venezuela. And it is from journalists in such countries that the US press must now learn how to defend press freedom and fight for facts."

Julie Posetti, Kaylee Williams and Mel Bunce report for The Conversation November 20, 2024.

SEE ALSO:

"How Political Divisions Are Threatening A Bipartisan Bill To Protect Press Freedom" (PBS)

"Opinion: Press Freedom Groups Share Grim Warnings About A Second Donald Trump Administration" (Poynter)

"GOP Sees Scientific Integrity Policies as Anti-Trump" (PEER)

"How Trump’s First Administration Threatened Press Freedom At The Border" (Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press)

"House Oversight Committee Investigates Biden-Harris 'Scientific Integrity' Guidelines Meant To Thwart Trump's Agenda" (Free Beacon)