Ronan Farrow: ‘We Can’t Take for Granted the Sanctity & Integrity of the 1st Amendment’

‘It is a subtle and pernicious thing that creeps into our culture over time when we have leaders and politicians saying these are the enemy of the people’

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FARROW: “I think exactly the point you just made, that we can’t take for granted the sanctity and integrity of the First Amendment in this country. We are at a moment where we’re seeing tactics thrown against journalists, threats of even violence in some of these protests that we shot deployed against journalists, in a way that would have been unthinkable in the United States not that long ago. And that is now increasingly the norm here. And there’s a reason why we focused on the stories of journalists going through this difficult period of time in democracies across the Americas, because we’re looking at countries with a shared set of challenges that have gotten worse in this respect in the current moment. So I think we all need to be on guard.”

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