{"id":7577,"date":"2026-09-23T12:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T12:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/?p=7577"},"modified":"2026-09-23T12:46:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T12:46:03","slug":"new-attacks-on-the-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/2026\/09\/23\/new-attacks-on-the-free-press\/","title":{"rendered":"New attacks on the free press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-12m5bll evys1bk0\">\u00a0The Trump administration is barring journalists from CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House for writing \u201cpurposefully negative stories.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/09\/21\/opinion\/trump-journalists-ban-white-house.html\">In response, a Sept. 21 editorial, the New York Times said<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"css-12m5bll evys1bk0\">The new ban is alarming for two reasons: It continues both Mr. Trump\u2019s attempt to prevent the free flow of information in American society and his utter disregard of the law&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a class=\"css-povzk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/press-pubs.uchicago.edu\/founders\/documents\/amendI_speechs24.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">As James Madison wrote<\/a>, \u201cTo the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.\u201d The Bill of Rights devotes part of its first item \u2014 the First Amendment \u2014 to the idea, barring any laws that abridge \u201cthe freedom of speech or of the press.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0The Trump administration is barring journalists from CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House for writing \u201cpurposefully negative stories.\u201d In response, a Sept. 21 editorial, the New York Times said: The new ban is alarming for two reasons: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/2026\/09\/23\/new-attacks-on-the-free-press\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,25,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-censorship","category-constitutional-law","category-politics-media-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7577"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7579,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7577\/revisions\/7579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revolutionsincommunication.com\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}