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In the United States, hostile rhetoric and attacks on the press turned fatal in 2018 when a gunman stormed an Annapolis, Md., newsroom, killing for Capital Gazette journalists and a sales assistant. Despite the protections of the First Amendment, press freedom in the United States is in crisis, says the Committee to Protect Journalists. President Donald J. Trump regularly criticizes the press in speeches and tweets, calling journalists the "enemy of the people" and news that is critical of him "fake news."
Capital Gazette staffer Gerald Fischman, Rob Hiaasen, John McNamara, Rebecca Smith and Wendi Winters were shot to death in their Annapolis, Md., offices in June 2018. The accused gunman had attacked the newspaper on social media in response to a 2011 article published about him. |