{"id":139367,"date":"2025-05-02T09:20:19","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T06:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/alarming-deterioration-of-us-press-freedom-under-trump-says-rsf\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T09:20:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T06:20:19","slug":"alarming-deterioration-of-us-press-freedom-under-trump-says-rsf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/alarming-deterioration-of-us-press-freedom-under-trump-says-rsf\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Alarming deterioration\u2019 of US press freedom under Trump, says RSF"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139367\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Media rights group RSF warned Friday about \u201can alarming deterioration in press freedom\u201d in the United States under President Donald Trump as well as \u201cunprecedented\u201d difficulties for independent journalists around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Paris-based Reporters Without Borders, which has been tracking press freedom for the last 23 years, said its main index had fallen to its lowest-ever level. \u201cFor the first time in the history of the index, the conditions for practising journalism are poor in half of the world\u2019s countries and satisfactory in fewer than one in four,\u201d an annual review of media freedom globally by the charity concluded.<\/p>\n<p>RSF editorial director Anne Bocande highlighted the role of economic pressures in undermining fact-based reporting, with many independent outlets having to close because of funding difficulties. Although spending on online advertising was still rising \u2014 hitting $247.3 billion in 2024, according to RSF \u2014 a growing share is captured by online giants Facebook, Google or Amazon rather than media companies. \u201cWhen journalists are impoverished, they no longer have the means to resist the enemies of the press -\u2014 those who champion disinformation and propaganda,\u201d Bocande said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>RSF highlighted how Trump had made difficult conditions worse by axing US financial support for state-backed broadcasters such as Voice of America and Radio Free Europe\/Radio Liberty (RFE\/RL), as well as US foreign development aid that assisted media outlets overseas. After a fall of 11 places in 2024, the United States declined another two to 57th place on the 2025 World Press Freedom Index, one behind formerly war-torn Sierra Leone in west Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The index, calculated according to the number of violent incidents involving journalists and other data compiled by experts, was topped by oil-rich Norway for the ninth year in a row. Estonia and the Netherlands were second and third. \u201cIn the United States, Donald Trump\u2019s second term as president has led to an alarming deterioration in press freedom, indicative of an authoritarian shift in government,\u201d RSF said. \u201cHis administration has weaponised institutions, cut support for independent media, and sidelined reporters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Large parts of the United States were now \u201cnews deserts,\u201d RSF said. Trump announced Wednesday that he was considering legal action against The New York Times, in his latest attack on a media outlet. He is also suing media group Paramount over a pre-election interview last year of his Democratic rival Kamala Harris on its CBS channel. Trump alleges it was edited to remove an embarrassing response, although many legal analysts view the case as baseless and likely to be dismissed or fail due to constitutional protections for freedom of the press.<\/p>\n<p>The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a media watchdog, also warned Wednesday that press freedom in the United States was declining and it urged newsrooms to form a united front against the \u201crising tide of threats\u201d facing them. Other countries that have suffered major declines in press freedom over the last year include Argentina (down 21 places to 87th) under right-wing Trump ally Javier Milei, and Tunisia (down 11 places to 129th).<\/p>\n<p>RSF also again highlighted the plight of Palestinian journalists seeking to report on Israel\u2019s devastating bombardment of Gaza. \u201cIn Gaza, the Israeli army has destroyed newsrooms, killed nearly 200 journalists and imposed a total blockade on the strip for over 18 months,\u201d it said. Israel meanwhile had dropped a further 11 places to 112th and \u201ccontinues to repress its own news media\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/world\/alarming-deterioration-of-us-press-freedom-under-trump-says-rsf\/article\">DJ<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vau-viikkokatsaus\/alarming-deterioration-of-us-press-freedom-under-trump-says-rsf\/\">\u2018Alarming deterioration\u2019 of US press freedom under Trump, says RSF<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[18690,18691,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-139367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-alarming-deterioration","tag-us-press-freedom","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}