The Biden Administration's Hypocrisy On World Press Freedom Day

Journalism should not be a crime anywhere on Earth. But the Biden administration has helped make the world more deadly for journalists.

United States President Joe Biden marked World Press Freedom Day by calling for the “immediate and unconditional release of all journalists who have been put behind bars for simply doing their jobs.” He added, “Journalism should not be a crime anywhere on Earth.”

But that statement comes with a giant asterisk. What Biden did not say is that the U.S. government claims the authority to determine who is and is not a journalist. Those journalists, who U.S. officials wish to prosecute or target with other forms of lawfare, may easily be excluded from journalistic protections.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been in detention in London’s Belmarsh maximum-security prison for more than five years because the Biden administration insists on bringing Assange to the U.S. for a trial on unprecedented Espionage Act charges that were issued under President Donald Trump. 

Biden acknowledged that “2023 was one of the deadliest years for journalists in recent memory. One reason for that is the war in Gaza, where far too many journalists, the vast majority of them Palestinian, have been killed.”

But who has killed nearly 100 or more Palestinian journalists?

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