<story><title>Record Breaking Number of Journalists Arrested in the U.S. This Year</title><url>https://freedom.press/news/2020-report-journalists-arrested-us/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>indigochill</author><text>One line from the report jumped out at me as I was skimming it:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; About half the journalists here are freelancers, who may lack the institutional support of a newsroom and the financial resources for a potentially expensive legal defense.&lt;p&gt;I hadn&amp;#x27;t really thought of the value of legal defense from journalism institutions (as opposed to non-institutional platforms like Substack) before.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>riazrizvi</author><text>Isn&amp;#x27;t it common knowledge that Gawker was a media company that irreverently covered silicon valley until it was bankrupted through litigation? The law courts are the main way that journalism is attacked in non-autocratic countries. Strong freedom of the press laws are celebrated, because they are constantly under siege by powerful people, who once targeted, would rather not have them.</text></comment>
<story><title>Record Breaking Number of Journalists Arrested in the U.S. This Year</title><url>https://freedom.press/news/2020-report-journalists-arrested-us/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>indigochill</author><text>One line from the report jumped out at me as I was skimming it:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; About half the journalists here are freelancers, who may lack the institutional support of a newsroom and the financial resources for a potentially expensive legal defense.&lt;p&gt;I hadn&amp;#x27;t really thought of the value of legal defense from journalism institutions (as opposed to non-institutional platforms like Substack) before.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>i_haz_rabies</author><text>We will look back on the ruination of journalism as a profession as one of the most consequential changes of these last two decades.</text></comment>