Jan 8, 2017:
During her Cecil B. DeMille Award acceptance speech at the Golden Globe Awards, actress Meryl Streep called out Donald Trump for mocking a disabled reporter at a campaign rally last year.
Steep also mention freedom of the press, and how journalists will need support during the Trump presidency "to safeguard the truth".
But there was one performance this year that stunned me. It sank its hooks in my heart. Not because it was good; there was nothing good about it. But it was effective and it did its job. It made its intended audience laugh, and show their teeth. It was that moment when the person asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country imitated a disabled reporter. Someone he outranked in privilege, power and the capacity to fight back. It kind of broke my heart when I saw it, and I still can't get it out of my head, because it wasn't in a movie. It was real life. And this instinct to humiliate, when it's modeled by someone in the public platform, by someone powerful, it filters down into everybody's life, because it kinda gives permission for other people to do the same thing. Disrespect invites disrespect, violence incites violence. And when the powerful use their position to bully others we all lose.
We need the principled press to hold power to account, to call him on the carpet for every outrage. That's why our founders enshrined the press and its freedoms in the Constitution. So I only ask the famously well-heeled Hollywood Foreign Press and all of us in our community to join me in supporting the Committee to Protect Journalists, because we're gonna need them going forward, and they'll need us to safeguard the truth.
Source:
Victor, Daniel; Russonello, Giovanni. (January 8, 2017). "Meryl Streep's Golden Globes Speech". The New York Times. Retrieved 2017-01-08.
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Yes, Meryl Streep expressed this freedom of the press so well along with the support and commitment the free press needs to stay on top of this guy and all his past and future outrages.