Suffocating dissent: Gagging the Media in Ethiopia
The Anti–Terrorism Proclamation is known to punish so-called "troublesome journalists" who might criticize the government or publish articles featuring opposition. The brutal gang ruling is no worse...
View ArticleJournalism as Subversion
Global capitalism erases the world's stories and histories. It seeks to shut out our voices, hopes and dreams by replacing the actual and the real with fake and false. Is its ultimate goal to create a...
View ArticleMedia Watchdog Unveils Top Ten Worst Censors
With a historical level of imprisonment of journalists and an increasing expansion of censorship, the freedom to express oneself is but a dream in many countries. Action is needed to help protect...
View ArticleJournalists Face Most Deadly and Dangerous Period in Recent History
“Journalists are being caught in a terror dynamic," in which they are targeted and restricted of their civil liberties in the name of fighting terror. Is this the most deadly and dangerous period for...
View ArticleU.N. Security Council Takes ‘Historic’ Stand on Killings of Journalists
On Wednesday, the U.N. Security Council passed a new stance on the killing of journalists by "condemning all violations and abuses committed against journalists and deploring impunity for such acts."...
View ArticleAmerican Journalism’s Ideology: Why the ‘Liberal’ Media Is Fundamentalist
If we were to step back from the diversionary label of journalism and evaluate the deeper ideological commitments that shape mainstream news, what are they really? Robert Jensen evaluates an...
View ArticleSensitivity Over at Gawker
Many members of the editorial staff at the gossip-mongering website, Gawker, quit in response to the site's editorial independence from the influence of "business-side concerns." So what's next for the...
View ArticleHuffPost and Washington Post Reporters Face Charges in Ferguson
Huffington Post's Ryan Reilly and Washington Post's Wesley Lowery were charged with trespassing and interfering with a police officer a year after being detained during the Ferguson riots. This raises...
View ArticleYou Can’t Trust the (Corporate) Press
From operation mockingbird to wars based on official lies, you can't trust the corporate press. Democracy will only flourish when "the press can decide whether to print what it knows.” The post You...
View ArticleEgyptian Government Arrests Three Journalists in Three Days
Earlier this month, the Committee to Protect Journalists accused the Egyptian government of holding record numbers of journalists behind bars this year. Now the CPJ is demanding Egyptian authorities...
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