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Media organizations are concerned about being a legal and political attack on the new administration.
By David Enrich and Katie Robertson
David Enrich’s latest book, to be published in March, is about the campaign to limit press freedoms. Katie Robertson covers the media industry.
The journalists and editors of the national newspapers depend on their dependence on the encrypted communications to help themselves and their resources of the possible federal research and citations.
Many media evaluate whether they have enough insurance policy for a possible wave of defamation and other disputes of officials who have already shown an inclination to bring such prosecution.
And a nonprofit investigative journalism outlet is preparing for the possibility that the government will investigate issues like whether its use of freelancers complies with labor regulations.
With President-elect Donald J. Trump returning to the White House, the giant, small media are taking steps to prepare for what they worry may be a legal and political attack that opposes the new administration and Trump’s ally, Trump’s allies inside and outside the doors of the government.
For nearly a decade, Mr. Trump has demonized and tried to delegitimize the media. He has attacked reporters as “the enemy of the people.” He has repeatedly sued news organizations. In his first administration, the White House at times barred out-of-favor journalists from attending events.
But the early indications are that his new administration could be more hostile to the press. For example, Mr. Trump’s choice to run the F.B.I., Kash Patel, said before the election that a new Trump administration would “come after the people in the media.” Brendan Carr, the expected chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, recently raised the prospect of revoking federal broadcast licenses for television stations that he perceived as biased against conservatives.
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