It's heartwarming to hear MPs speaking up for press freedom | Roy Greenslade

Recent initiatives are a step forward in helping editors and reporters under attackIn too many countries, it is open season on journalists. Ruling politicians, acting like the monarchs of regimes past, openly denigrate the men and women who seek to hold them to account and thereby encourage their citizens to follow suit. The most obvious example is US president Donald Trump and his declaration that journalists are enemies of the people purveying “fake news”.Presidents and prime minis