This isn’t frightening, this is ridicilous. Get a grip people, if you want to talk about things elsewhere, you need to, like, get your head out of the US and think for a microsecond. https://twitter.com/krassenstein/status/950581647891513345 …
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Anyone who puts Trump ahead of Putin or Egypt’s Sissi in terms of oppressing journalists needs to stop making list about any country besides the United States. Hey, rank the best states the visit in June or something.
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This mentality is also self-defeating. American people have an enormous amount of tools and freedoms. Yes, a few of them are under pressure, but that pressure is minor compared to what people face in Russia or Egypt.
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I don’t mean to minimize the challenges, but I find this learned-powerlessness through exaggration to be real theat to positive change. There is so much that is possible and doable!
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I read the article. Putting Trump inthe same press release as Putin and Xi Jinping, giving him an award category where he is the top? Come on. I agree there are issues, but they are rounding errors to what Russian journalists face. https://twitter.com/susansternberg/status/950590420844728320 …
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Reality check. Trump isn’t even a tiny threat to press freedom in the US the way Putin is—not yet. The industry structure, rise of algorithmic digital monopolies, removal of barriers to monopolistic practices, rise of propaganda channels? Them’s the threats. All precede Trump.
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Trump may have introduced and heightened *whataboutism* in the US, but there isn’t a press freedom oppressor in the world that needed or waited for Trump for whataboutism. In reality, Trump whataboutism only really affects the US.https://twitter.com/menisaydin/status/950593905401192449 …
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American journalists continue to be freer than pretty much anywhere else in the world. Whether they can find the financing; whether editors focus on important, investigative stories; whether good press can break through the propaganda? Those are the issues, not press freedom.
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Sorry, as someone who is connected to elsewhere in the world, it is frustrating to watch Americans equate some existing but relatively minor pressure—as things go!—with catastrophic situations is frustrating, and also I observe it to be profoundly disempowering!
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I am sympathetic to your perspective and yet I think your view fails to account for the special role of the American Experiment as a shining example of freedom to the rest of the world. Trump’s egregious violation of norms creates more space for the autocrats of the world.
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Yes worth mentioning but relatively marginal effect. Not for that list.
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