http://www.cnn.com/2019/09/24/...nald-trump/index.html

New York (CNN Business)A.G. Sulzberger, the publisher of The New York Times (NYT), says President Trump has undermined "his own citizens' faith in the news organizations attempting to hold him accountable" and has "effectively given foreign leaders permission to do the same with their countries' journalists."

And "they've eagerly embraced the approach," he remarked while delivering a lecture at his alma mater, Brown University.
Sulzberger's speech was newsworthy because he shared some new examples of threats to journalism in the age of Trump.
He said the Trump administration "has retreated from our country's historical role as a defender of the free press," and he described disturbing consequences both at home and abroad, according to a transcript of his speech, which was published on The Times website.

"Two years ago, we got a call from a United States government official warning us of the imminent arrest of a New York Times reporter based in Egypt named Declan Walsh," Sulzberger said.
While these heads-ups are "actually fairly standard," this particular call "took a surprising and distressing turn," Sulzberger said. "We learned the official was passing along this warning without the knowledge or permission of the Trump administration. Rather than trying to stop the Egyptian government or assist the reporter, the official believed, the Trump administration intended to sit on the information and let the arrest be carried out. The official feared being punished for even alerting us to the danger."

So the Times reached out to diplomats in Walsh's native country, Ireland, and they took action: "Within an hour, Irish diplomats traveled to his house and safely escorted him to the airport before Egyptian forces could detain him."

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"Are you a Communist?"
"No I am an anti-fascist."
"For a long time?"
"Since I have understood fascism."

-Protagonist Robert Jordan, "For Whom the Bell Tolls" (Hemmingway)