Police officers obstructing lawful journalism and giving their own publicly funded propagandists the exclusive right to record them up close is unconstitutional, un-American, and absurd, and we very much doubt the taxpayers of Eugene, Oregon, ever intended to fund these kinds of anti-press antics.
Double Sided Media
Eugene Police Debuts Own Press
DSM, concerned by the EPD’s cosplay as members of the press, spoke to journalism experts who all agreed that this is bad.
From the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker: Filmmaker Rocky Romano was wearing visible credentials and carrying pro-grade gear when he was hit with a baton and shoved to the ground by LAPD officers while covering an anti-deportation protest in LA on Aug. 8.
U.S. Press Freedom Tracker
Documentarian hit with police baton, equipment damaged at LA protest
Documentary writer, director and producer Rocky Romano was pushed by police and hit with a baton while covering an immigration …
Israel operates a "Legitimization Cell" that seeks to frame journalists in Gaza as "Hamas operatives." "The idea was to [allow the military to] operate without pressure, so countries like America wouldn’t stop supplying weapons," one source told +972 Magazine. https://www.972mag.com/israel-gaza-journalists-hamas-hasbara/
It shouldn't need to be said, but with this FCC is apparently does: The FCC has no business and no right to revoke licenses because it disagrees with how a station covers the news.
Fox News
Arizona senate president calls on FCC to revoke state's PBS license over 'viewpoint discrimination'
Arizona senate president Warren Petersen requested the FCC investigate the state's PBS station for alleged bias toward the Democratic candidate in ...
Watch journalist Alistair Kitchen recount being detained for 12 hours, interrogated, his device searched at LAX in June, and later deported over his reporting. This is yet another clear sign that press freedom is under threat amid growing political repression and democratic decline in the U.S.
U.S. Press Freedom Tracker
Australian writer deported after interrogation over reporting, phone search
Moments after Australian writer and journalist Alistair Kitchen stepped off a plane in Los Angeles, California, on June 12, 2025, …
From the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker: Independent photojournalist Nick Stern was pushed and struck in the face with a baton by police and his press credentials damaged while he was covering immigration protests in downtown LA on Aug. 8.
U.S. Press Freedom Tracker
Photojournalist struck with baton, press credential damaged at LA protest
Independent photojournalist Nick Stern was pushed by police and then, after retrieving his damaged press credentials, struck in the face …
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The LAPD's brutal attack on independent journalists on Friday night is an attack on everyone's right to know. The LAPD must be held accountable.
Inquirer.com
In LA, police nightsticks are clubbing press freedom to death | Will Bunch
On Friday, LAPD cops allegedly battered and detained journalists at a protest β€” the ugliest of the many threats to U.S. press freedom.
β€œIf journalists are not willing to report on the ongoing attacks against the free press, who will?” Award-winning investigative reporter Jessica McMaster reflects on Marion County Record raid two years later.
Freedom of the Press
A β€˜massive failure’ in Kansas: Two years since the Marion County Record raid
Journalist Jessica McMaster looks back on her groundbreaking reporting on the raid
In a just world, there would be an investigation and accountability for Israel committing this horrific crime. But we all know that's not going to happen, unless and until governments stop using platitudes and actually put an end to this travesty at once.
Al Jazeera
Updates: Global outrage grows after Israel kills Al Jazeera staff in Gaza
Condemnation grows after targeted Israeli attack assassinates journalist Anas al-Sharif and several of his colleagues.
FCC's Brendan Carr has driven away from championing free speech
Chicago Sun-Times
FCC's Brendan Carr has driven away from championing free speech
It's clear that the principles Carr once defended during the Biden administration included unspoken political exceptions.