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Journalists are the government’s communication arm or the enemy that must be co-opted or controlled (repressed).
Thus, in their own national broadcasts – often weekly occurrences – populist presidents fulminate against journalists who dare to demand information or criticize public policies, plainly contradicting their own lofty rhetoric about citizen journalism and grassroots power.
Correa has used a long list of colorful insults to characterize the press and journalists.
For example, he has brought multimillion-dollar lawsuits against journalists who investigated corruption in his administration and columnists who criticized him.
Some inexplicable and unsurpassable force makes our journalists (especially young television and radio types), cut out whole bunches of Russian suffixes and throw them into the trash.
With investigative journalists getting into the act, land acquisition became a political land mine.
They worry that politicians and journalists who oppose their strategies for closer political and economic union could yet tip the balance of public opinion against the EU.
Women who were journalists, engineers, or scientists in their countries of origin – and who could not get jobs as checkout cashiers in Denmark – have been paired with Danish counterparts and are now back in school, or working in research.
Around the world, oligarchs are buying up media outlets to promote their interests and increase their influence, while journalists who report on issues like discrimination and corruption are met with intimidation, violence, and murder.
That is why Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is joining with Nobel laureates, technology specialists, journalists, and human rights activists to launch the Information and Democracy Commission.
As co-chairs of this independent initiative, our goal is to refocus global attention on the value of “a free and pluralistic public space,” and to offer solutions that enable journalists to work without fear of reprisal and allow the public to access accurate information easily.
Turkey has long been among the countries with the highest number of imprisoned journalists; but, in the months since the June election, the media have come under unprecedented pressure.
The media crackdown has created a culture of fear among journalists, academics, and ordinary citizens, making them reluctant to criticize policies and politicians.
Like most companies at the time, BP was accustomed to communicating with traditional seats of power – the White House, the Kremlin, and so on – and to doing so via traditional modes of communication, such as briefing carefully selected journalists and distributing precisely worded press releases.
Perhaps even in the depths of Mongolia, you would have heard the dire warnings emitted by journalists.
But scientists and journalists – acting as intermediaries between the report and the public – have engaged in greenhouse activism.
Africa’s Press: Missing in ActionIn much of Africa, the challenge for journalists, editors, and readers goes beyond freedom of the press, and involves its very survival.
Under Nigeria’s various dictatorships, for example, many journalists underwent a rite of passage that most prefer to forget: routine harassment, beatings, torture, frame-ups on spurious charges, and incongruously long prison sentences.
Journalists adopted tactics of underground publication, in the best tradition of East European samizdat.
Unfortunately, in repressive conditions such as those in, say, Zimbabwe, Third-World journalists tend to take their cues from the conduct of their national leaders and close ranks around the continent’s rogue elephants.
Imitation appears to be a hallmark of tyrants in their exercise of power, so the absence of solidarity among Africa’s journalists and Africa’s peoples has created a dangerous vacuum.
True enough, they talk to foreign journalists who report their actions; however, such contact is not illegal.
Human rights advocates have been intimidated, and journalists are routinely harassed.
The Crises NexusNEW YORK – Policymakers, academics, and journalists usually discuss the global financial crisis and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as if they somehow exist on parallel tracks.
The idea that Africa must once again choose between two competing blocs – Chinese and the Western – has become widespread among Western strategists, think tanks, and journalists.
Journalists ask, but Ahmedinejad won’t answer.
Of course, algorithms can be programmed any way companies like, meaning that they may place a premium on qualities shared by professional journalists: credibility, intelligence, and coherence.
In an audio recording that he sent to journalists earlier this month, he stated that the organization had done nothing to warrant an amnesty.
Public employees were informed that the draft constitution was a government project that they had to support, and newspaper and broadcast journalists were warned that their licenses could be revoked after a radio station aired an interview with a parliamentarian who opposed Kibaki’s constitution.
Other organizations can support specific institutions in Arab countries, or programs that enhance the professionalism of journalists.
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