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Publish date16 Jul 2018 - 13:17
Story Code : 343364

Billboards on freedom of press hit Trump, Putin ahead of Helsinki summit

Finland major newspaper installs 300 mocking billboards on freedom of press before Russian President Vladimir Putin and his American counterpart hold meeting in the capital Helsinki.
Billboards on freedom of press hit Trump, Putin ahead of Helsinki summit
Nearly 300 billboards were installed on the route from the airport to the site of the summit in the Finnish capital Helsinki, according to a Sunday press release by Kiaus Niemi, the editor-in-chief of Helsingin Sanomat.

“Mr. President, welcome to the land of free press,” reads one of the billboards as shown in one of the photos shared by Niemi.

The release further cited the Reporters Without Borders World Press Freedom Index, in which Finland is rated fourth in terms of press freedom while the US is 45th and Russia 48th.
 
“This is a statement on behalf of critical and high quality journalism,” Niemi
said in the release. “As we welcome the presidents to the summit in Finland, we want to remind them of the importance of free press.”

“The media shouldn’t be the lap dog of any president or regime."
 
One of the billboards features a February headline, reading “Trump calls media enemy of the people.”

The US and Russian leaders are set to meet in the Finnish capital on Monday.

Ahead of touching down in Helsinki on Sunday evening, Trump tweeted that “much of our news media is indeed the enemy of the people,” predicting that he would get negative press coverage “no matter how well” the summit goes.

According to Niemi, Helsingin Sanomat intends to “remind them of the importance of free press.”

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