An important Sunday message
Independent truth-telling is under attack. Let’s stand up for it, together
I’m going to keep this short.
The institutional press is under attack as never before in modern America.
Too much of it is folding, too easily, with too much cowardice.
Free speech is in peril, not through censorship so as much as jawboning. Every day, another platform turns useless.
Independence matters now more than ever.
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This month, I’ve been on “The Ezra Klein Show,” and on NPR’s On Point. I’ve heard from so many of you with feedback that makes me very grateful. And I want to tell you that it is subscribers to this newsletter that allowed me to do the work that led to that reporting. And that allow me to speak as clearly and freely as I do, in a way that sometimes others seem not to be able to.
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