People’s World’s Mark Gruenberg reports from Washington, D.C. that the free press in the U.S. faces three big threats, according to News Guild President Jon Schleuss, who lists Financialization; Corporate Oligarchs; and threats from Right-Wingers, including - but not limited to, Republican President Donald Trump. Schleuss, whose Union is now one of the fastest-growing in the Nation - as Journalists flock to the News Guild, often to try to protect themselves against those menaces - offered that analysis as part of a wide-ranging recent symposium on press freedom worldwide. The March 4th International Federation of Journalists webinar, entitled Trump’s Attacks On Press Freedom And Their Global Repercussions, started with Trump. Its news peg was his ejection of the Associated Press, the world’s largest news-gathering organization, from White House press events. And Schleuss explained Democratic Lawmakers are far from blameless. Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden “weaponized the Justice Department” by subpoenaing - and even jailing - Reporters who received leaks of “confidential” documents and wrote stories about them.

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