Trump wins ‘Press Oppressor’ award

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a Journalists’ and press
freedom campaign organisation based in the U.S., has named President
Donald Trump as the winner of its award for ‘Overall Achievement in
Undermining Global Press Freedom’.

The CPJ said Trump emerged the overall winner at the award on Monday
night in New York after he also emerged ‘Runner-Up’ to President Recep
Erdoğan of Turkey, winner of the ‘Most Thin-skinned’ award.

Other awards were ‘Most Outrageous Use of Terror Laws Against the Press’
won also by Erdoğan; ‘Tightest Grip on Media’ – excluded countries with
no independent media, such as North Korea and Eritrea -won by President
Xi Jinping of China; and ‘Biggest Backslider in Press Freedom’ won by
State Counsellor and de facto leader Aung Suu-Kyi of Myanmar.

President AbdelFattah al-Sisi of Egypt emerged ‘Runner-Up’ to Erdoğan
for ‘Most Outrageous Use of Terror Laws Against the Press’; President
Vladimir Putin of Russia emerged ‘Runner-Up’ for ‘Tightest Grip on
Media’ award won by Xi; while President Andrzej Duda of Poland was
‘Runner-Up’ for ‘Biggest Backslider in Press Freedom’ won by Suu-Kyi.

The award was in response to Trump’s fake news awards, which he hinted
on Tuesday last week that he would be announcing this week Monday, which
he later shifted to Jan. 17.

Reuters