Press should stop 'breaking bread' with 'authoritarian' Trump officials: reporter

Press should stop 'breaking bread' with 'authoritarian' Trump officials: reporter

When the White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) was founded back in 1914 during Democrat Woodrow Wilson's presidency, the idea was to have an organization of journalists who covered the White House but were independent of it. Seven years later, the WHCA's annual dinner was founded, and the first president who attended was Republican Calvin Coolidge in 1924.After that, every U.S. president from Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Ronald Reagan t…

By Undermining Federal Data, Trump Is Following an Authoritarian Playbook

One of the defining features of Donald Trump’s second term is an aggressive drive to control the narrative, in part by burying inconvenient evidence. A key example is his regime’s multi-pronged assault on federal data infrastructure and independent institutions that safeguard public knowledge. In just its first hundred days, Trump’s regime has laid siege to federal data agencies… Source