PEN America: AMI's Attempts to Blackmail Journalists, Outlets Sinister Effort to Silence Investigative Reporting
February 08, 2019
February 08, 2019
NEW YORK, Feb. 8 -- PEN America issued the following statement by CEO Suzanne Nossel in response to the allegations of blackmail by National Enquirer publisher David Pecker made by Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos and investigative journalist Ronan Farrow:
"For a professed media company to attempt to blackmail individual journalists and news outlets in order to suppress investigative reporting represents a gross perversion of a business that can no longer hold itself out as a . . .
"For a professed media company to attempt to blackmail individual journalists and news outlets in order to suppress investigative reporting represents a gross perversion of a business that can no longer hold itself out as a . . .