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Media organizations are concerned about being a legal and political attack on the new administration.
By David Enrich and Katie Robertson
David Enrich’s latest book, to be published in March, is about the campaign to limit press freedoms. Katie Robertson covers the media industry.
Reporters and editors at national newspapers are increasing their reliance on encrypted communications to help shield themselves and their sources from potential federal leak investigations and subpoenas.
Multiple media organizations are evaluating whether they have enough insurance coverage to absorb a potential wave of libel and other litigation from officials who have already shown an inclination to file such suits.
And a point of sale in non -profit research journalism is the option that the Government is investigating questions such as its use of freelancers agrees with hard work regulations.
With the president -elect Donald J. Trump, who returns to the White House, the large and small media take measures to prepare for what worry them to be a legal and political attack opposite to the new administration and the allies of Mr. Trump Trump Inside and outside the doors the government.
For nearly a decade, Trump demonized and attempted to delegitimize the media. He attacked Newshounds as “the enemy of the people. ” He continued the press organizations several times. In its first administration, the White House has banned new favorites from getting involved in events.
But the first indications are that your new administration would possibly be more hostile to the press. For example, Trump’s team to manage F. B. I. , Kash Patel, said before the new Trump management “comes after the media people. ” Brendan Carr, the expected president of the Federal Communications Commission, recently raised the possibility of revoking federal transmission licenses for television stations that he perceived as biases opposed to conservatives.
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