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The government’s recent record is depressing: in just a few months, the authorities have imposed several new repressive laws, forced influential journalists out of their jobs, and prosecuted human-rights defenders, mayors, lawyers, and prominent politicians.
But, with the world’s media attention focused on Argentina, Dutch journalists were able to publicize the plight of the Madres of Plaza de Mayo – the mothers of the disappeared – thus revealing to the world the regime’s grotesque nature.
Numerous civil-society organizations and news outlets have been shut down, and Turkey now holds the dubious honor of having a record-breaking number of journalists behind bars.
Xi’s RecipeWASHINGTON, DC – China’s government is cracking down hard on Western journalists, threatening not to renew visas for reporters from the New York Times and Bloomberg in retaliation for their reporting on the corruption of senior Chinese officials.
Increased censorship and intimidation of foreign journalists, together with the imprisonment of dissidents and tighter restrictions on dissent, are an effort to ensure that economic disruption does not give rise to political rebellion.
Recently, Osnos writes, a high-level Chinese diplomat explained the threatened expulsion of New York Times and Bloomberg journalists on the grounds that “the Times and Bloomberg were seeking nothing short of removing the Communist Party from power, and that they must not be allowed to continue.”
I have conducted interviews with journalists in Britain, Germany, Norway, India, Australia, Japan, the Netherlands, and Brazil; and articles about the piece have been published in France, Ireland, Italy, Bolivia, Jamaica, Vietnam, Israel, Lebanon, Canada, and many other countries.
Russian journalists are often corrupt, and tens of thousands of dollars are paid for a single defaming TV program or newspaper article.
In a series of bizarre prosecutions, Turkish courts have jailed hundreds of defendants – military officers, journalists, academics, and lawyers – for allegedly plotting to topple the country’s democratically elected government.
Dozy watchdogs asleep at the wheel are a trope that trips quickly into journalists’ coverage.
Journalists rarely look back to check whether the dire outcomes the authorities pointed to actually came to pass.
Professional journalists are obliged to answer five questions: who, what, where, why, and how.
Politicians and journalists often mistakenly read this situation as if it were simply “about Poland,” or “about Hungary,” while in fact criticism of these countries forms part of a bigger picture.
He exposed details of behind-the-scenes politics and called for a public boycott of the newspaper, evoking strong public sympathy for the journalists, expressed online in chatrooms and blogs.
When governments constrain journalists – in Kenya or elsewhere – they do so at their own peril.
By giving Kenyans a platform to voice their dissent, the Nation – led by its journalists – helped protesters articulate the ideas, slogans, and catchphrases that animated their movements.
And yet, even during periods of government repression, savvy journalists have always found audiences for their dissenting views.
Instead, after a brief reprieve between successful elections in 2002 and post-election violence in 2007, journalists were targeted once more.
To prevent journalists from reporting on a political rally by then-opposition leader Raila Odinga, the Kenyan government forced three private television stations off the air for days, ignoring court orders to end the blockade.
Journalists at one station, Nation Television, huddled in their offices as they coordinated with lawyers and sought to avoid arrest.
Without courageous, pioneering journalists, Kenya’s pro-democracy movement may never have succeeded.
But it has also demonstrated that press freedom means much more than letting journalists say what they want, when they want, and how they want.
It has carried out vendettas abroad and is believed to have murdered a host of opponents – including journalists, activists, and political leaders – at home.
If the Olympics turn out to be a public relations disaster – because of potential protests by Tibetan, Uighur, or Falun Gong activists or supporters, a lockdown in China of foreign journalists, or even doping scandals – there is a real chance that the Chinese will blame the West, particularly America.
Journalists compete for scoops on the most important breakthroughs.
As shop-worn as these tricks are, voters and journalists still fall for them, so they remain useful tools for anyone posing as a fiscal conservative.
Because the Rohingya’s persecutors, by restricting access to journalists and photographers, have denied their victims a face, and because the Rohingya are Muslims at a bad time to be Muslim, nearly the entire world is turning a blind eye.
Italy’s populist Five Star Movement (M5S), which came out on top in Italy’s 2013 parliamentary elections and is predicted to do well again in 2018, emerged from large rallies organized by comedian Beppe Grillo against “la casta” – his derogatory term for what he sees as the country’s ruling casteof professional politicians and journalists.
People’s relationship to authority figures – doctors, politicians, religious leaders, or, indeed, journalists – is no longer slavishly deferential.
And fresh air takes the form of reporting, whether drawing attention to wrongdoing in local communities or deep investigative reports, like the extraordinary global effort by the hundreds of journalists who cooperated in bringing the Panama Papers to light.
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