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RFE/RL: Hostility toward media no longer limited to authoritarians, says watchdog

Published April 25, 2018 at 12:23 pm

U.S. President Donald Trump talks with journalists after signing tax reform legislation into law in the Oval Office December 22, 2017 in Washington, DC. Trump praised Republican leaders in Congress for all their work on the biggest tax overhaul in decades.

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The media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is warning that violations of press freedom are no longer the practice of authoritarian regimes and dictatorships.

The Paris-based group said in its 2017 World Press Freedom Index, released on April 25, that the climate of hatred is steadily becoming more visible in the index, which evaluates the level of press freedom in 180 countries each year.