Tag: journalists
Where did the tradition of journalists speaking truth to power go?
Requiem for a (sort of) free press in the U.S
Faulty intelligence? The curious case of the murdered journalist who wasn’t
There is no question that journalists in Russia (and, for that matter, Ukraine) are under threat.
EPA guard shoves reporter, multiple news outlets blocked from water pollution...
"Scott Pruitt is more worried about journalists than poisoning millions of Americans."
Emilio Gutierrez Soto and the fight to protect journalists
Democracy depends on a vigorous free press, and it is up to all of us to demand it, and to defend it.
The paper company threatening ancient boreal forests – and activists and...
Resolute Forest Products provides the paper for the nation’s biggest newspapers and publishers. So it’s up to independent media to speak out.
I am an enemy of the people
If Trump cracks down on journalists, there might be less uproar than you'd think.
Egyptian 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 immediately release three journalists who were recently arrested.
Three Journalists Murdered within Two Weeks
"The murder of three journalists in two weeks shows how the lack of progress in ending impunity has emboldened those bent on silencing the press in the Philippines." Will their killers be brought to justice?
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 than in Ethiopia.
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Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.
Trump DOJ subpoenas reporters after Iran war leaks trigger escalating clash with the press
The Trump administration has reportedly issued subpoenas targeting journalists and news organizations over Iran war reporting, intensifying concerns that the Justice Department is being used to expose confidential sources and pressure outlets covering national security issues
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...
A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.
Now you see them… now you don’t
Women leaders and Trump 2.0.