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Fareed Zakaria, the host of CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS and a Washington Post columnist, was this year’s speaker at the Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture Series. He talked about government attacks on the press, U.S. relations with China and North Korea and the state of democracies in the world. (Emma Skinner/Daily Bruin)

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CNN host lectures on state of democracy and importance of free press - Daily Bruin

CNN host lectures on state of democracy and importance of free press

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A political commentator said journalists are canaries in a coal mine at a lecture in Schoenberg Hall on Wednesday. “Press plays an absolutely vital role,” said Fareed Zakaria, a Washington Post columnist and the host of CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS.

https://dailybruin.com/2018/02/22/cnn-host-lectures-on-state-of-democracy-and-importance-of-free-press/

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CNN host lectures on state of democracy and importance of free press

By Megan Daley

Feb. 22, 2018 1:03 a.m.