{"id":1104458,"date":"2021-12-09T22:59:20","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T03:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1104458"},"modified":"2021-12-09T22:59:22","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T03:59:22","slug":"biden-vows-to-fund-protect-journalists-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-vows-to-fund-protect-journalists-worldwide\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden vows to fund, protect journalists worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-vows-to-fund-protect-journalists-worldwide%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1104458&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2608437\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2608437\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joe Biden speaks during his meeting with members of the White House Covid-19 Response Team on the latest developments related to the Omicron variant in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., December 9, 2021. (Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 7:20 PM PT \u2013 Thursday, December 9, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Joe Biden has vowed to fund and support free press worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Biden, alongside Secretary of State Antony Blinken, hosted the first virtual \u201cSummit for Democracy\u201d on Thursday and spoke with more than 100 leaders worldwide in efforts to support independent media. Despite reports revealing the current administration was found lobbying mainstream media outlets, Biden insisted the First Amendment is \u201cthe bedrock of democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This comes after White House officials reportedly said they were unhappy in regards to the media\u2019s coverage of the country\u2019s supply chain crisis.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tune in as I deliver opening remarks at the virtual Summit for Democracy.  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rfh9mHQ07s\">https:\/\/t.co\/rfh9mHQ07s<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 President Biden (@POTUS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS\/status\/1468931004555485193?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 9, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re committing critical seed money to launch a new multilateral effort or international fund for public interest media to sustain independent media around the world and through USAID,\u201d said Biden. \u201cWe\u2019re going to be setting up a new defamation defense fund for journalists to help protect investigative journalists against nuisance lawsuits designed to prevent them from doing their work\u2026vital work around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, the White House has insisted the summit wasn\u2019t a \u201cstamp of approval,\u201d despite leaders from China, Russia, Turkey and Hungary not being invited.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/white-house-considers-more-sanctions-in-iran-if-diplomacy-towards-nuclear-deal-fails\/\">White House Considers More Sanctions In Iran If Diplomacy Towards Nuclear Deal Fails<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Biden speaks during his meeting with members of the White House Covid-19 Response Team on the latest developments related to the Omicron variant in the State Dining Room of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1104458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1104458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1104458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1104458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1104458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}