Popular Resistance -A survey of
editors from print and online publications found most news organizations
are weaker in their ability to defend the right to freedom of the press
than they were ten years ago. The Knight
Foundation conducted the survey, along with the American Society
of News Editors, Associated Press Media Editors, and
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. Sixty-six editors were
surveyed.
Around half of news
editors indicated their news organizations were “no longer prepared to
go to court to preserve First Amendment freedoms.” Eighty-nine percent
indicated this was because defending the First Amendment is too
expensive.Forty-four percent of editors indicated their news organization was less able to go on the offense and sue to open up access to information.
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