Tag: Free Press

Whistleblowers and protesters play a key role in ensuring accountability. But ultimately, democratic systems should be built to ensure institutional accountability.

My Swedish friend is sitting in a jail cell.

“The revelation that the U.S. has initiated a prosecution against Mr. Assange has shocked the international community.”

Requiem for a (sort of) free press in the U.S

Expect these evidence free smears to continue and for more well funded groups like the Integrity Initiative to appear in the future, claiming to be fighting disinformation while engaging in it themselves, often against their own citizens or those of allied countries.

Rather, the demise of the real news reporting by our city and regional papers is a product of their profiteering owners.

That a perfect opportunity to show a real, if still only potential, attack by the Trump Administration’s Justice Department on the freedom of the press was almost entirely ignored says a lot about the mainstream press’ actual priorities, not only in the U.S. but in most Western countries with less objectionable leaders.

Defenders of free expression and members of the media denounced the president's move as a "clear attack on the First Amendment."

There’s fake news on your television, too. And there’s about to be more of it, unless something is done to stop an upcoming merger.

The ominous assault on the final redoubts of a free press, through an attempt to brand dissidents, independent journalists and critics of corporate power and imperialism as agents of a foreign power, has begun.