Fountain Hills officials punished newspaper for negative coverage

A few months ago, President Donald Trump created a First Amendment firestorm by barring the Associated Press from certain events because the outlet declined to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America.” In Arizona, a similarly petty battle is playing out over the freedom of the press. In the Valley town of Fountain Hills, a right-wing contingent of the town council removed a press table — primarily used by the local Fountain Hills Times Independent newspaper — because those councilmembers did not like the tone of the paper’s coverage…



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