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“We teach the authorities what they can get away with”

“We teach the authorities what they can get away with”

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As Trump’s attacks on the media intensify, it is critical that the press fulfill its duty to hold power accountable. “When we censor ourselves before the government forces us to do so, we teach power what it can get away with,” says Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times magazine journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones. “It is impossible to have a free society without a free press that criticizes government and holds government accountable.”