Donald Trump Bags 'Press Oppresor" Award.

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


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.


Trump had on Jan. 2, said: “I will be announcing THE MOST DISHONEST & CORRUPT MEDIA AWARDS OF THE YEAR on Monday at 5 p.m..

“Subjects will cover Dishonesty & Bad Reporting in various categories from the Fake News Media. Stay tuned!”

However, on Sunday, he said: “The Fake News Awards, those going to the most corrupt & biased of the Mainstream Media, will be presented to the losers on Wednesday, Jan. 17, rather than this coming Monday. The interest in, and importance of, these awards is far greater than anyone could have anticipated!”

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.


CPJ said “in response to media coverage critical of him, Trump has threatened to ‘open-up’ U.S. libel laws, sue news outlets, and subject their broadcast licenses to review.
He regularly attacks outlets and individual journalists on Twitter and in speeches, calling them ‘sad,’ ‘failing,’ or ‘garbage.’


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

• ‘Biggest Backslider in Press Freedom’ won by State Counsellor and de facto leader Aung Suu-Kyi of Myanmar.