{"id":357721,"date":"2018-04-21T02:19:07","date_gmt":"2018-04-21T01:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/alternative-medias-free-speech-rights\/"},"modified":"2018-04-21T02:19:07","modified_gmt":"2018-04-21T01:19:07","slug":"alternative-medias-free-speech-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/alternative-medias-free-speech-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternative Media\u2019s Free Speech Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The National Press Club hosted a press conference in Washington, D.C. on April 10, 2018 that revealed important news about the strategic attack on free speech and First Amendment rights directed at alternative media. It\u2019s unlikely many are aware of this important information since the corporate media didn\u2019t show up. Infowars founder and broadcaster Alex Jones focused on what he said were hundreds of frivolous defamation lawsuits intended to drive him and others in the independent press out of business and current censorship tactics being used against the alternative media on social media platforms.<\/p>\n

Other speakers were Contributing Editor Roger Stone, Washington Bureau Chief Dr. Jerome Corsi, News Director Rob Dew, and reporters Leeann McAdoo and Millie Weaver, all of Infowars; Jack Posobiec of One America News Network; Gateway Pundit reporter Lucian Wintrich; and Lee Stranahan of Sputnik News.<\/p>\n

Attendees were alternative media representatives, some of whom said they are being sued, including Trump Talk US, Crowdsource the Truth, Moms4Trump, Populist Wire, Think Progress, Right Wing Watch, a reporter from George Washington University, the Justice Integrity Project, the Daily Informer, and Cliff Kincaid of America\u2019s Survival TV.<\/p>\n


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\n<\/span>During a later Q & A, LewRockwell.com asked several speakers why President Trump doesn\u2019t give his exclusive interviews and scoops to the alternative, independent press instead of corporate media like CNN which he has labelled fake news. Stone answered, \u201cPresident Trump virtually never gives interviews to alternative media largely because there is no one working for him in the White House or in…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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