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Journalism professor Rob Miraldi looks at Donald Trump’s decision to punish the Associated Press for not bending to his will refusing to call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America; he fears that it is but a beginning. Here’s bit from his article:

Last July I wrote a column in this space, warning of what was to come. I talked with Marty Baron, who for nine years observed Trump while editor of The Washington Post. Baron was clear.

Trump would not only go after freedom of the press. “Any effort to eliminate freedom of press,” he warns, “is the first step to eliminate freedom of speech.”

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