The War On News

A record of government actions against journalism and fact-based reporting, from the first press laws to today

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Incidents in the United States, head of government Oscar K. Allen

Each incident is a dated action by a government, an official, a regulator, a court or a legislature that limited journalists' ability to gather or publish news.

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United StatesRSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180

United States: Louisiana taxes large newspapers' advertising revenue; the tax is struck down in Grosjean v. American Press Co.

Louisiana taxed the gross receipts that businesses earned from advertising in newspapers with circulations above 20,000 copies a week, a threshold that caught the state's largest papers. The Supreme Court of the United States ruled unanimo…

Funding and ownership pressure · Stage Pressure · Head of government Oscar K. Allen · Reversed

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