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The Committee to Protect Journalists - Meryl Streep
Meryl Streep noted the importance of supporting freedom of the press in her Golden Globes speech and how vital it is for the "principled press to hold power to account."
Here's more information about the CPJ.
https://cpj.org/
As the new presidential administration prepares to take over, CPJ examines the status of press freedom, including the challenges journalists face from surveillance, harassment, limited transparency, the questioning of libel laws, and other factors. Meryl Streep calls for support for CPJ's work to protect journalists holding government accountable.
https://cpj.org/about/spotlight-on-giving.php
As Meryl Streep accepted the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 2017 Golden Globes ceremony on January 8, 2017, she called on the audience and the broader community to join her in supporting CPJ. You can #StandWithStreep and click here to make a donation.
In her speech, Streep said, "Disrespect invites disrespect, violence incites violence. And when the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose. ... We need the principled press to hold power to account. That's why our founders enshrined the press and its freedoms in the Constitution."
So, Streep continued, "I only ask ... all of us in our community to join me in supporting the Committee to Protect Journalists, because we're going to need them going forward, and they'll need us to safeguard the truth."
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CPJ was founded 35 years ago by a group of U.S. journalists who realized they could not ignore the plight of colleagues whose reporting put them in peril on a daily basis. To protect journalists globally, the Forbes article said, CPJ documents cases of press freedom violations, publishes reports, conducts high-level advocacy, and provides "individual moral and material support."
In her speech, Streep said, "Disrespect invites disrespect, violence incites violence. And when the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose. ... We need the principled press to hold power to account. That's why our founders enshrined the press and its freedoms in the Constitution."
So, Streep continued, "I only ask ... all of us in our community to join me in supporting the Committee to Protect Journalists, because we're going to need them going forward, and they'll need us to safeguard the truth."
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CPJ was founded 35 years ago by a group of U.S. journalists who realized they could not ignore the plight of colleagues whose reporting put them in peril on a daily basis. To protect journalists globally, the Forbes article said, CPJ documents cases of press freedom violations, publishes reports, conducts high-level advocacy, and provides "individual moral and material support."
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