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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Seth Stern

Journalists must speak up when press freedom is at stake

An issue of the Marion County Record sits in a display in its office on Aug. 13 in Marion, Kansas. The newspaper’s offices were raided by local law enforcement, causing a national outcry. It’s just one of many recent assaults on press freedom, one expert writes. (AP Photos)

Late last month, Calumet City authorities hit Daily Southtown reporter Hank Sanders with a flurry of citations for asking too many questions. 

The situation was so absurd it should’ve been comical, in a Reno 911! meets the First Amendment way. But the news was difficult to take lightly when it followed the arrests a week prior of an Alabama journalist and publisher for reporting on leaked grand jury documents. 

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