The tiny city of Clarksdale in the Mississippi Delta has given the world the musicians Sam Cooke and John Lee Hooker and calls itself the home of the blues.
Now it has found a new claim to fame: It has become the nation’s hottest battleground over freedom of the press—and one where the Democratic mayor has outdone President Donald Trump with a bare-knuckled attack on the media.
This week the mayor’s thin-skinned feud with the family-owned local newspaper went from a low-level quarrel to a sweeping legal ruling which, critics say, upends the First Amendment and presents a clear and present danger to the free press.
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