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Media organizations are concerned about being a legal and political attack on the new administration.
By David Enrich and Katie Robertson
David Enrich’s newest book, due out in March, considers the crusade to restrict press freedoms. Katie Robertson covers the media industry.
Reporters and editors at national newspapers are increasing their reliance on encrypted communications to help shield themselves and their sources from potential federal leak investigations and subpoenas.
Several media organizations evaluate whether they have enough insurance policy for a possible wave of defamation and other managers disputes that have already shown a tendency to deposit said prosecution.
And an output of non -profit research is the option that the government investigates problems, as if its use of independent workers meet hard work regulations.
With President-elect Donald J. Trump returning to the White House, media outlets large and small are taking steps to prepare for what they fear could be a legal and political onslaught against them from the new administration and Mr. Trump’s allies inside and outside the government.
For nearly a decade, Trump demonized and attempted to delegitimize the media. He attacked Newshounds as “the enemy of the people. ” He continued the press organizations several times. In its first administration, the White House has banned new favorites from getting involved in events.
But the first indications are that your new administration would possibly be more hostile to the press. For example, Trump’s team to manage F. B. I. , Kash Patel, said before the new Trump management “comes after the media people. ” Brendan Carr, the expected president of the Federal Communications Commission, recently raised the possibility of revoking federal transmission licenses for television stations that he perceived as biases opposed to conservatives.
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