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As Trump's unrelenting and illegal attacks against the press continue, I would like to commemorate World Press Freedom Day with you.
If Trump were able to stifle international independent news sources like the Associated Press, it would be just a matter of time before his goons went after blogs like this.
World Press Freedom Day. So what is it?
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Celebrates the fundamental principles of press freedom, to evaluate press freedom around the world, to defend the media from attacks on their independence and to pay tribute to journalists who have lost their lives in the exercise of their profession.
The United Nations General Assembly declared May 3 to be World Press Freedom Day or just World Press Day, observed to raise awareness of the importance of freedom of the press and remind governments of their duty to respect and uphold the right to freedom of expression enshrined under Article 19 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and marking the anniversary of the Windhoek Declaration, a statement of free press principles put together by African newspaper journalists in Windhoek in 1991.
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