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Via Helena IR:
Despite President Donald Trump’s disdain for some news organizations, a group of Iraqi journalists touring Montana this week said the U.S. news media have much to be thankful for.
“For you in the U.S., when it comes to the Constitution and the law, it’s all in favor of empowering free press,” said Dishad Anwar Ali Jaf, a reporter for Dangi Amerika in Iraq, through a translator. “ … In Iraq, it’s much more different. The laws are reversed to what you have. We have laws on paper, we do have a freedom of information act,” but it is not enforced.
According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, 11 journalists were killed in the United States between 1992 and 2018. In Iraq, the number is 186.
“There is a certain framework set for journalists to work within,” Jaf said. “But for self-protection, it’s important that the journalists, they self-censor. They are careful with what they do and how they do it.”