New Year's Eve party in Times Square to cheer for press freedom
Source: Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Reporters will be the guests of honor at the New Years Eve party in New Yorks Times Square on Monday, in what organizers said was a celebration of press freedom after an unusually deadly year for journalists at U.S. news outlets.
One was the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi columnist for the Washington Post and U.S. resident, inside a Saudi Arabian consulate in Turkey. The other was the mass shooting in June in the newsroom of The Capital, a newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland, in which five employees were killed.
Throughout the year its been a big issue, Tompkins said in an interview. Times Square itself is the ultimate agora and public space, noting that the area was named after the New York Times, and that it was a Times publisher, Adolf Ochs, who began the tradition of the ball drop in 1907....
U.S. President Donald Trump has become a vociferous critic of parts of the press, routinely chiding reporters and outlets he views as publishing fake news, calling them the enemy of the people.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-new-year-usa-journalists/new-years-eve-party-in-times-square-to-cheer-for-press-freedom-idUSKCN1OS0CB
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(6,853 posts)Watch out for wackos who hate freedom and journalists. It's precious cargo.
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(9,528 posts)Very glad to see this!