Article in Columbia Journalism Review by Sarah Grecy Gotfredsen, 4/10/25
Headline: “Entry: Denied”
Subhead: “The “intolerable risk to press freedom” posed by device searches at the border.”
“. . .In 2019, The Intercept documented how journalists covering the so-called migrant caravan faced ‘coordinated harassment’ from US and Mexican authorities. Through a series of interviews, the journalist Ryan Devereaux tells how members of the press were forced to turn over their notes, cameras, and phones while border officers interrogated them for information about activists working with members of the caravan. . .”
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Article in Fair by Janine Jackson, 4/10/25
Headline: ” ‘This Is an All-Out War on the First Amendment’ “
Subhead: “CounterSpin interview with Jessica González on Trump’s FCC”
“Janine Jackson: ‘There are reasons that the FCC, the Federal Communications Commission, is an opaque entity for many people. The fact that there is a federal agency setting the terms for media companies’ operations conflicts with many Americans’ understanding of the press corps as a group of brave, independent individuals looking to tell the truth, and let the chips fall where they may.’
“There are, in fact, many community-supported, differently structured news outlets doing just that. . .”
https://fair.org/home/this-is-an-all-out-war-on-the-first-amendment/