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Prepare for the worst: journalists who survived dictators sound alarm over Trump's press threats

Ellsworth Toohey
Dec 05, 2024
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Journalists who've lived through freedom-of-the-press-hating dictators who have some words of warning for us here in Murica: with Trump in office, "prepare for the worst."

The Nieman Foundation at Harvard asked journalists from places like Hungary, the Philippines, and other spots where democracy's taken a…

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