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China Expels Several US Journalists In Biggest Crackdown

March 17, 2020 5:06 pm

China on Wednesday expelled American journalists at the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal in the Communist government’s most severe move against foreign media in recent memory.

The foreign ministry said in a statement the measure was in retaliation for Washington’s decision to cut the number of Chinese nationals allowed to work for Chinese state-run media on American soil.

The announcement comes as the two countries are feuding over the deadly coronavirus pandemic, with President Donald Trump defiantly calling it the “Chinese virus” and a senior official in Beijing promoting conspiracy theories of US involvement.…

Trump Sues New York Times For “Defamatory Statements”

February 27, 2020 9:05 am

The 2020 campaign team of the United States President Donald Trump has filed a libel lawsuit against ‘The New York Times’ alleging that the newspaper “knowingly published false and defamatory statements” connecting Trump to Russia.

According to the suit, the newspaper cited Trump in a March 2019 opinion piece about Russia, taking his war with the media to different heights.

Opinion pieces by The New York Times are published in The Times’ opinion section, which is separate from the organization’s newsroom and has a different leadership and control. The March 2019 piece at the center of the defamation lawsuit was …