(New York) In the first six months since his return to the White House, Donald Trump has established himself as “one of the most powerful defenders” of a global movement hostile to the information media, reported the organization Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) on Thursday.
Since January 20, Donald Trump has multiplied “verbal attacks” and measures to “limit” press freedom in the United States, inspired by “authoritarian regimes”, and also influencing them, said RSF in a statement.
“Several of these tactics are nothing new, they are in the manual of press predators around the world. But clearly, Trump amplified this phenomenon, encouraging and inspiring other leaders to attack their national media, “said Clayton Weimers, director of RSF for the United States.
In February, the White House limited the access of the American news agency Associated Press (AP) because it refused, and always refuses, to use the name of “Gulf of Mexico” instead of “Gulf of America”, as the Trumpian lexicon wants.
The Trump administration also seeks to dismantle public audiovisual and announced the closure, disputed before the courts, of international radios Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Radio Free Asia.
However, this measure will deprive hundreds of millions of auditors worldwide “of credible information” and thus promote the development of “propaganda” media by “authoritarian diets like Russia and China,” said RSF.
The Trump government also provides for the abolition of federal funds allocated to public radio and television NPR and PBS and many local stations affiliated.
The president also launched legal attacks against the CBS private channel or the local newspaper The monks register Due to a media coverage which he considered biased against him, thus using the judicial system to try to gag the media, continues the NGO which also sees parallels with Hungary of Viktor Orban or the Salvador of Nayib Bukele.
