Sentence examples for enemy of press from inspiring English sources

The New York Times reporter James Risen, who faces jail over his refusal to reveal a source and testify against a former CIA agent accused of leaking secrets, has called President Barack Obama "the greatest enemy of press freedom in a generation".

The first option would be for Trump to direct the FBI to investigate the matter, persuading Turkey, itself an enemy of press freedom, and Saudi Arabia to permit that to take place.

It's no surprise, then, that at the George Polk Awards' "Sources and Secrets" conference which was hosted by the New York Times on Friday, the reporter called the Obama administration "the greatest enemy of press freedom that we have encountered in at least a generation".

Some NYT journalists were upset that the paper had hired a man who had worked for Nixon, who was rightly regarded as an enemy of the press in general and the liberal press in particular.

Fiercely private and avowed enemy of the press, his public persona is similarly fractured: garrulous hard-nut, working-class hero, fanciable chancer, nippy sweetie.

To American reporters, Ismay came across as disdainful and arrogant ("J Brute Ismay"); and in any case, he had previously made an enemy of the press magnate William Randolph Hearst, whose papers now crucified him as a cowardly aristo from the old world.

With his dumbed-down tweets, Trump condescends to his followers, he makes enemies of the press and vilifies the system of checks and balances the press provides.

But the committee singled out President dos Santos as one of 10 worst enemies of the press.

On May 3rd, "World Press Freedom Day", the Committee to Protect Journalists, based in New York, named Dr Mahathir among the world's top ten "enemies of the press".

President Slobodan Milosevic of Yugoslavia; Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran; and Foday Sankoh, the Sierra Leone rebel leader, are among this year's "Top 10 Enemies of the Press," according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.

In 1999, 2000 and 2001, the Committee to Protect Journalists put Mahathir on its list of the 10 worst enemies of the press for his stranglehold on the mainstream media.