@kim_harding
> a by-product of a media system that fails to hold powerful interests accountable for the lies they tell
This reminds me very much of the heavily skewed coverage of Occupy encampments, and before that the anti-summit protests in the late 1990s. Which led to the creation of the Independent Media Centre and Indymedia.org to coordinate and present coverage of the Battle of Seattle.
"A discussion between U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Sen. Mitt Romney over the weekend included... the two officials speaking openly about the U.S. government's long-term attempts to provide public relations work for Israel in defense of its policies in the occupied Palestinian territories—and its push to ban TikTok in order to shut down Americans' access to unfiltered news about the Israeli assault on Gaza."
Folks love calling Israel a liberal democracy, but here they are claiming news is a 'threat to national security'. When informing people of what you say and do is a threat, you're doing something wrong. They did this two days after #WorldPressFreedomDay.
On #WorldPressFreedomDay 2024, the 🇺🇸 has dropped to 55th on RSF’a index. https://rsf.org/en/country/united-states
📰📉”After a sharp increase in 2020, #PressFreedom violations have fallen significantly in the United States, but major structural barriers to press freedom persist in this country, once considered a model for freedom of expression.”
New photo-shoot on World Press Freedom Day ... National Press Club president Emily Wilkins talks with advocates for journalists held hostage: Austin Tice, Evan Gershkovich, and Alsu Kurmasheva.
Here, Wilkins talks with Stephen Capus, president of RFE/RL, employer of Alsu Kurmasheva.
Today is #WorldPressFreedomDay and a day to remember that almost all countries can do better. Press freedom is one of the foundations of free societies and worth fighting for!
So in news that will come as no surprise to any Australian journalists, Australia has dropped 12 places on the World Press Freedom Index to 39th place, because, “Press freedom is not constitutionally guaranteed in this island-continent of 26 million people, but a hyperconcentration of the media combined with growing pressure from the authorities endanger public interest journalism.” https://rsf.org/en/index#journalism#WorldPressFreedomDay
'De intimidatie heeft gewerkt. Voetbalmedia bakken meer dan ooit zoete broodjes met machtsmensen als Wouter Vandenhaute van Anderlecht in plaats van kritisch over hen te berichten.'
Na het gewonnen proces tegen voetbalclub #Anderlecht en voor de #DagVanDePersvrijheid sprak Apache met Humo-journalist Jan Hauspie.
Als Schreibkraft schleust sich Paula Schlier 1923 beim Völkischen Beobachter ein und dokumentiert heimlich das Innenleben der NS-Propagandamaschinerie.
Annette Steinsiek & Ursula A. Schneider vom Brenner-Archiv haben die Aufzeichnungen von Schlier 2018 neu herausgebracht, der BR sie nun filmisch inszeniert.