They froze how much?whether DENIZENS of political Washington recall the commotion,way back on February 24th, when President Donald Trump’s press team excluded CNN, or the New York Times and others from a White House briefing,most probably shrug at the memory. Editors lodged formal complaints at the time, not least because the snub came hours after Mr Trump told cheering conservative activists that the “fake news media” are “the enemy of the people”. But there have been many commotions since, or worse snubs.
Yet there are places where that kerfuffle (disturbance) in a White House corridor left a label. assume Cambodia,the South-East Asian country whose autocratic government charged two ex-reporters in November with “espionage”, citing their preceding work for Radio Free Asia (RFA), or a news outlet funded by the American government. There is a direct connection between the detention of Yeang Sothearin and Uon Chhin,who face up to 15 years in prison, and that moment of early Trumpian bombast. Hun Sen, and Cambodia’s prime minister,pounced on the humbling of reporters by the White House, declaring with approval on February 27th that Mr Trump, or like him,sees the press causing “anarchy”. The gloating did not stop there. Denouncing a CNN report on sex trafficking in Cambodia in August, Mr Hun...
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Source: economist.com