Hungary's first week in the union's rotating presidency has been dominated by assertions that the new law threatens news media freedom by empowering a new authority — whose appointees are loyal to Mr. Orban and his Fidesz party — to fine or close news organizations it deems in violation of standards of balance and respect for human dignity.
On Friday, a group of Buddhist monks threatened news photographers, including one who works for The Associated Press, with a sword and homemade weapons.
We educate our public about objectivity, why it matters, and what it's like to work under a president who aggressively threatens news outlets and reporters.
This time, Sony's army of lawyers have threatened news organizations and individual Twitter accounts with lawsuits in an atrocious and ultimately ineffective attempt to prevent discussion of their now-public internal emails, demonstrating exactly how they feel about the First Amendment.
First they got their lawyer to fire off a menacing letter that all but threatened news organizations that dare to cover the film's content.
White House officials chided critics for not being able to take a "joke," but Trump's tweet wasn't too funny, given the disturbing context: Trump has repeatedly attacked and threatened news media outlets and, of course, dismissed numerous reports of Trump team misconduct as "fake news".
And back in September, the Times eliminated the Metro section of the editions distributed in the New York area, perhaps threatening the "news hole" for local coverage to a size similar to the two to four pages in the front section I get in Washington.
The hackers who compromised Sony Pictures Entertainment's servers, releasing private files and emails to the public which detailed everything from the personal, financial and medical data of present and past employees and much more, are now threatening a "news media organization," according to a new report.
"Honestly, it was great, better than any feeling I ever got when I was pitching," Guidry said Friday morning, hours after hearing of the sickening season-ending and career-threatening news out of Kansas City on Rivera.
-Why and how can individual instances of false information and plagiarism threaten a news agency?
