Kansas newspaper raid draws plenty of attention, but journalists defy threats across U.S.

Attacks against a free press are attacks on every American, the country and our constitution

Clay Wirestone/Kansas Reflector

August 21, 2023 8:56 am

Jerry Ryan transferred to Bev Baldwin, the distribution of Marion County Records on August 16, 2023. Photo: Shaman Smith | Kansas Reflector

On August 11, Kansasri Frector reported that Marion County Records' editorial editing bureau reported a shameful unconstitutional home search, followed by the entire country and the United States. The voices of those who value the freedom of the press and the freedom of speech suppress their strength and intensity.

Eight days later, when the "record" equipment was returned and the reporters began investigating the situation related to the house search, it may be the temperature that justice said. It's time to collect things. Nothing remains here. Freedom wins, we can swim toward the sunset.

There is nothing far from the truth.

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We still need an answer, and we don't understand the meaning of this case itself. To put it wider, the story has become an ideal for the whole country, with Marion's remarkable substance and the reporter in charge of the reporter in charge. Few people may think that all authorities did the right thing. The question is, as a journalist in the State Network network said, attacking free and fair news is not unusual. In fact, such an attack has become a terrifying common phenomenon.

When influential people pursue journalists and news editors, they pursue all of them. They pursue readers of publications. They attack voters who make decisions using the received information. Attack other politicians who may have conflicts and interests.

Eventually, it is against the constitutional system of the country that guarantees the rights of Article 1 of the Constitutional Fix to everyone.

Or, as said by Chairman Claire Rigan, Chairman of the Professional Journalist Association, "from all signs, this attack is cherished as journalists in the freedom of the press, Article 1 of the Constitution, and in this great country. It is a serious attack on all the freedom.

The only thing you should not make a mistake is that there is almost no need to protect the nation in the people's speech. Russian authorities do not have to worry about calendars with cute cats, or magazines that advertise Vladimir Putin as the sexy man in the world. A speech that many people think of being uncomfortable, scandalous, or simply rude will be easily suppressed without the protection specified in the basic documents.

Agrative journalism and witty comments are not always fun. Also, it should not be. Those who are trying to close the newspaper may claim that they are trying to regain citizens' peace or worrying about public interests. But after all, they are hurt the constitution and the country that they argue that they love.

Let's look at the outrage of the US and small and small. Other States NewsRoom published editors have posted their own articles, columns written by them, and other articles. Please see in alphabetical order.

Arizona

ARIZONA Mirror's edito r-i n-chief of Jim Small introduces two stories:

This week, the Republican leaders defended the decision to deprive the reporter exclusive of the parliament this week. The new policy of obliging the members of the "fourth power" has the right to access to telecommunications companies sitting in the House of Representatives since the 1970s, and the safety of the 60 House of Representatives selected. He said that it was only for securing. "

From May 2023: "A judge rejected a prohibition order to a reporter, a member of the Senator Wendy Rogers, a member of the Arizona state.

After a hearing in the Flag Staff District Court, Judge Howard Gridman said, "If a series of events directed to Senator Rogers, even if she was actually so, if she was a reasonable person. I don't think it's going to be seriously alert, annoying, or harassed. " The strongest claim is that the investigation has a legitimate purpose. That's right. " "

Arkansas

The editor of Arkansas Advocate magazine Sonny Albarado wrote a column about this last week:

In Arkansas, the Ministry of Education suddenly decided to delete the advanced place course from a graduate school's official course, so teachers and students are not delicate to teachers and students regarding the freedom of ideas and expressions. It was.

AP African American research has been under the monitoring of ADE since Governor Sarah Hacka Bee Sanders instructed ADE to review the curriculum and other teaching materials for "educational" and "critical racial theory". 。 The Learns method she signed has an item that explains what an ambiguous term means and what does not mean. Read it and see if it's still ambiguous.

Georgia

John Makoch, edito r-i n-chief of Georgia Records, talks about the imprisonment of a reporter seven years ago:

From July 2016: "The Tomason mark was filmed, they created a photobot in the back seat of the police cruiser, hoped for horny, undressing, and a cupbot in the eyes of male witnesses. She was forced to crush, forced to take a shower with other prisoners, and was led by a prison video camera for 24 hours.

"According to the text of a correspondent living in a rural area in northern Georgia, he made a rudimentary demand for an anger from an authoritative person."

From November 2016: "Thomason and his defenders, Russell Knock, were given the stigma, and all charges were deleted in Cthuska, a fate day. Thomason's hope was satisfied.

Iowa

Reported by Iwa Capital Dispatcho Edito r-i n-Chief Katity Frante:

In May 2020, George Floyd was killed by the Minneapolis police, and a reporter on the Demoin Register paper was injected by a pepper gas while promoting dislocation and was arrested by the remover. However, Andrea Safri was in court, pretending to be a reporter who alleviated the promotion of dislocation and was unable to disconnect and confuse public influence. The jury was acquitted in 2021.

Other attacks on the freedom of the press have a new restriction on violations of the disclosed documents and the media access to national authorities and local governments. The Republica n-controlled Ayoba Senate, over 100 years in 2022, has inverted the ability to act in the ward council from press supporters. Officials of correspondents in the IWA-Capital dispatch and the group of disclosure documents are not complied with the Republican Goba Kim Reynolds and members of the headquarters for 18 months. He filed a referee for not satisfying the requirements for provided. Earlier this year, the Ayov Supreme Court was solved because the Ayov Supreme Court in effect was deemed that the Governor's Office complied with the law and was irrational.

Missouri

Missouri Independent editorial department Jason Hancock reports:

In Missouri, there is no governor who is more intense with the press as the Governor Mike Person. He fell regularly with an unreasonable attack on the media, and while he was in the same station, he reduced the number of parking spaces assigned to reporters and canceled the pass to the reporter's supporters.

But this is more like a fart, compared to what he was interested in. Lewis Post Dispatch paper noticed the security system defect on the state website.

The Person administration initially tried to thank the reporter. In return, however, Person held a press conference and called a reporter cracker, accusing the pos t-depatch to drive the Republican to a troublesome state, and tried to conduct a criminal investigation against the reporter.

Later, even when the prosecutor and the law enforcement agency concluded that there was no violation, the Person did not accept the reality, and the reporter had violated the law.

New Mexico

Reported by Sean Grizzweart of Source New Mexico:

The attack on freedom of the news in New Mexico entrusts me unnecessary concerns, and accepts the bureaucrats selected by correspondents in the state, or in the case they provide, who are craving. It's a job.

On August 14, 2022, I headed south from my home to Karl Subad, New Mexico. To relieve Republican New Mexico Governor Ronchetti and guest Ron Rights. Before the Governor of Florida announced his nomination, it was a wel l-known fact that he was going to reconcile. However, I was in a concert of a weather scholar who was a candidate for the state leader Ronetti's post. At this point, he had never played in public, and my purpose was to inform the reader about the prepositions to produce themselves close to the selected national patriot. 。

This was completely different.

Before I arrived, Ronketti Press Secretary Enrique Knell refused to issue a certificate, stating that the "Source of New Mexico" was the "lef t-wing" newspaper.

I prefer to sign a ticket through the election campaign and go to other restricted components under the former President Donald Trump.

When I arrived, two commercial securities got my identification on my mobile phone. With the help of a sheriff's armed assistant, they refused to enter my event.

For example, he stealed cigarettes and started smoking chains. I found a white cardboard like an asymmetric snow on the third US spirit received from a 3 % T-shirt. I caught it, took out my personal shapen, and wrote a note that I wanted to arrest an interview with someone inside.

I just fulfilled the order and discovered the rest of the state just to teach: Trump uses the great fame with these voters, including those brought by landing. Masu.

After I left, a serious conversation on news access began on social networks. Each camp thought it was correct to put pressure on the new small news channel. They were wrong. Press access has become a hot topic in all media in New Mexico, and in some media outside the state.

I am grateful to Ronchetti and Desantis repeatedly. "Because we taught me that if we cooperate, the power of the journalist would be demonstrated.

Oregon

Lin Terry, editor of Oregon Capital Chronicle, writes:

One of the most notable cases in Oregon was the case in September 2020 by police attacked a large homeless camp in a public park in Medford in southern Oregon.

Jefferson Public Radio's reporter, April Elrich, has arrived before the police to interview dozens of camps. When the police arrived, the park was closed and the media podium was set up on the eyes and nose.

Elrich refused to leave and continued interviewing.

Four police officers surrounded her and handcuffed her back! I am a reporter! I am a reporter! I'm a reporter! I'm a reporter! I'm just doing my job! "

She was taken to the detention area and was charged with trespassing, resistance to arrest, and obstructing police officers. Until she was released, she spent several hours in prison.

Approximately 50 news organizations, including the New York Times, Washington Post, and AP Communication, have joined a letter supporting the trial.

A few days before the trial was held last September, the judge rejected her arrest as a violation of the constitution. A few days later, she filed a lawsuit in Medford, its municipal administration, Jackson County, and several police officers, and filed a lawsuit in the Federal District Court in Medford.

This lawsuit is still in dispute.

Pennsylvania

Kim Lyons, editor of Pennsylvania Capital Star, writes:

Perhaps the worst repression in the recent history in Pennsylvania is due to candidates for public office. Doug Mastoriano, who became a candidate for the Republican Party in the Pennsylvanian Governor's election in 2022, has no interaction with most reporters (unless they are reporters of "friendly" righ t-wing publishers), and his aides are election events. He physically eliminated the reporter (at an event, there was a gentleman wearing a triangular hat), and at another event, he printed a reporter's photo at the reception and closed the reporter.

In the general election, Mastorano lost 14 points to the Democratic Party Josh Shapiro.

South Dakota

South Dakota's searchlight editor Seth Tapper writes:

When I worked for the Daily Republic in Mitchell, a local surgeon even told the editor in chief that he regretted the publication had not "stepped down" when confronting a doctor who had repeatedly used racist insults. This resulted in a brief police crackdown on the publisher, and the surgeon was eventually found to be on the clinic's board of directors (all other consequences of which were swept under the carpet behind a wall of "personnel issues").

When I worked for the Rapid City Journal, members of the Water Development District Board (a privately elected body that levies a small tax) were so upset about our bailout that they tried to take the "publication" to court by using $100, 000 from the board's social fund. Other members rejected the proposal. Council members pushed this project and my address bordered on the risk that baggage for the amount read and addressed print publications: "When there's a hooligan on the beach, sometimes you have to give him on the nose, so I have to take care of everything, for example, I'm watching your judgement day and stories for the Rapid City Journal and The Front."

West Virginia

West Virginia Watch Editor Lienn Ray reports:

Journalists in West Virginia are no strangers to attacks on press freedom -- and the most horrifying, in fact, is that most of it comes from their personal organizations. As a result, an organization called West Virginia Watch was founded.

In December 2022, three reporters from the print publication Charleston Gazette-Mail who covered our Katie Coyne were stripped of their tweeting jobs by HD Media CEO Daga Skaff, then a minority favorite of Western Virginia Adepts, for interviewing former coal operator Minx operator Don Blankenship on his political online feed and for not denying his climate change denial or his responsibility for the 2011 Upper Big Branch mine disaster.

But that's not all. In fact, it was revealed this month that Skaff's IT staff had deleted a 2015 Gazette-Mail memo that Skaff had been denied a spot during a blackjack game at the SCAM casino in West Virginia's resort, The Greenbrier. When editors found out, they sent the memo back to the website with an editor's note.

At one point in December, Amelia Ferrell Regisel got her own position at the West Virginia Social Broadcasting for a report on the Department of Health and Human Services. Kniselli wrote about the relentless occupation of the disabled in municipal facilities. The abandonment followed after DHHR once claimed to withdraw from the material. She now works for the organization West Virginia Watch.

We must not forget how Governor Justice basically said what he wanted in the train emails of Gazette reporter Phil Kabler and threatened to take them to court to have them published as cables.

We know of cases like this. The Charleston-Gazette-Mail was the cool edition of West Virginia and people still think of it as the "liberal press" as a result of it had the opportunity to get more unfavorable attention than other news editions.

Wisconsin

Wisconsin Examiner Editor Ruth Conniff highlights Bill Lueders' column:

Now in Wisconsin, the case is seen as an example of draconian use of force by municipal officials vs. district news editions, a statewide concern. In a memo posted to print publications on Wednesday, New York Times reporter Jeremy V. Peters reviews the lawsuit filed by Tomczyk, now a resident senator from Mosini, against the Wausau Review & amp; Pilot, a digital print publication founded and edited by Silen Saat.

On Wednesday, Sibert, in a lightning-fast message, said that in her opinion, Tomczyk's job was "to destroy me and destroy our organization." In fact, she recalls feeling a sense of relief when the lawsuit was dismissed. "But if we win, we lose because we live in Wisconsin."

This statement was first posted by the Kansas Reflector.

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