If Donald Trump should win the presidency it would represent a threat to press freedom, says the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Earlier this month, said the statement, CPJ’s board of directors passed a resolution declaring Trump to be a “threat to the rights of journalists and to CPJ’s ability to advocate for press freedom around the world”. It recalled that Trump, the Republican candidate, “mocked a disabled New York Times journalist and called an ABC News reporter a ‘sleaze’ in a press conference”. This is recognising that a Trump presidency represents a threat to press freedom unknown in modern history. “Without the unending, one-sided assault of the news media, Trump would be beating Hillary Clinton by 15 points”.

Source: The Guardian October 17, 2016 06:45 UTC