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Refreshingly Honest Billionaire Says Media Purchase Will Be Used For Propaganda
Refreshingly Honest Billionaire Says Media Purchase Will Be Used For Propaganda Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ The billionaire CEO of the multibillion-dollar corporation that recently purchased the news media outlet Politico has said that its newly acquired employees will be required to support Israel and the capitalist world order. In a recent interview with The Wall […]
A Free Press Has A Responsibility To Be Fair
A Free Press Has A Responsibility To Be Fair The So-called Free Press Includes Many Parts Surging Media Bias has blown away the notion the free press will be fair and this year it seems these players that shape our opinions are doubling down. This was demonstrated when allegations regarding Hunter Biden and a laptop […]
France threatens journalists with jail time for exposing use of French arms in Yemen
France threatens journalists with jail time for exposing use of French arms in Yemen French journalists could face up to five years in prison and be fined up to $83,000 France is ranked 32nd out of 180 countries in RSF’s 2019 World Press Freedom Index (AFP)By MEE and agencies France has threatened three French journalists with potential […]
Prisoner for Free Speech: the Relentless Pursuit of Julian Assange
Prisoner for Free Speech: the Relentless Pursuit of Julian Assange CNN correspondent Jim Acosta returned to the White House on 17 November, a few days after a US judge had forced President Donald Trump to reverse the revocation of his press pass. Smiling before 50 or more photographers and cameramen, Acosta said triumphantly: ‘This was a […]
End of ‘free’ press? NYT caved in to Bush & Obama, held NSA bombshell for 1 yr – James Risen
End of ‘free’ press? NYT caved in to Bush & Obama, held NSA bombshell for 1 yr – James Risen © Gary Hershorn / Reuters The New York Times was “quite willing” to quash stories at the behest of the government, writes Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter James Risen. He warns that America’s press has been muzzled […]
Europe: Journalists Against Free Speech
Europe: Journalists Against Free Speech Gone is all pretense that journalism is about reporting the facts. These are the aims of a political actor. Being bought and paid for by the EU apparently counts as “press freedom” these days. According to the guidelines, journalists should, among other things, “Provide an appropriate range of opinions, including […]
Egypt Bars Journalist From Leaving Country as Crackdown on Dissent Widens
Egypt Bars Journalist From Leaving Country as Crackdown on Dissent Widens One of Egypt’s leading investigative journalists, Hossam Bahgat, was prevented from boarding a flight to Jordan today when officials at Cairo International Airport informed him that his name had been added to a list of citizens barred from traveling abroad. Bahgat, who was detained […]
Turkey Arrests Journalists Who Exposed Erdogan’s Weapons Smuggling To Extremist Syrian Rebels
Turkey Arrests Journalists Who Exposed Erdogan’s Weapons Smuggling To Extremist Syrian Rebels One of Turkish president Recep Erdogan’s key contentions in the ongoing diplomatic spat with Russia is that everything that Russia has accused Turkey of doing, from funding the Islamic State’s oil purchases, to providing weapons for Syrian “rebels” intent on eradicating the Assad […]
Obama prosecuted whistleblowers for working with media, not with foreign govts – Assange to RT
Obama prosecuted whistleblowers for working with media, not with foreign govts – Assange to RT © / RT “Academic censorship” in journalism and foreign relations is one of the US’ greatest sins according to whistleblower Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks. Assange spoke to RT about the “US Empire” and mechanisms it uses to expand […]
The Case of John Peter Zenger and the Fight for a Free Press
The Case of John Peter Zenger and the Fight for a Free Press This week marks the 280th anniversary of a landmark event in the history of a free press: the trial of John Peter Zenger in New York. Zenger, publisher of the New-York Weekly Journal, was found not guilty of seditious libel by a 12-member jury at […]
How The Media Deceive The Public About “Fast Track” And The “Trade Bills”
How The Media Deceive The Public About “Fast Track” And The “Trade Bills” The way that “Fast Track” is described to the American public is as an alternative method for the Senate to handle “Trade Bills” (TPP & TTIP) that the President presents to the Senate for their approval; and this alternative method is said to […]
Effort by Japan to Stifle News Media Is Working
Effort by Japan to Stifle News Media Is Working It was an unexpected act of protest that shook Japan’s carefully managed media world: Shigeaki Koga, a regular television commentator and fierce critic of the political establishment, abruptly departed from the scripted conversation during a live TV news program to announce that this would be his last […]
Chris Hedges: The Myth of the Free Press – Chris Hedges – Truthdig
Chris Hedges: The Myth of the Free Press – Chris Hedges – Truthdig. There is more truth about American journalism in the film “Kill the Messenger,” which chronicles the mainstream media’s discrediting of the work of the investigative journalist Gary Webb, than there is in the movie “All the President’s Men,” which celebrates the exploits […]
