Kansas newspaper raid draws plenty of attention, but journalists defy threats across U.S.
Kansas newspaper raid draws plenty of attention, but journalists have had to defy threats across the U.S., opinion writer notes.
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Kansas newspaper raid draws plenty of attention, but journalists have had to defy threats across the U.S., opinion writer notes.
The problem — as journalists across the States Newsroom network told us is — that attacks on a free and fair press are not rare at all.
”When powerful people go after journalists and news outlets, they go after everyone. … Let’s look at outrages big and small from across the United States,” Clay Wirestone writes in this Kansas Reflector column.
After the Kansas Reflector reported on the raid of the Marion County Record, editors from other outlets shared similar stories.
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