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Longish but detailed exposé of the corporate media as the "custodians" of the narrative, with "the paper of record" in the lead. Foreign Policy JournalWho Will Tell the Truth About the So-Called ‘Free Press’?­Jeremy R. Hammond

Press freedom and narrative control.IrrussianalityFunny old worldPaul Robinson | Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa

Stephen Adler (lead image), the American chief executive of Reuters news agency, has ordered into publication three US Government-directed stories targeting the Russian oil company Rosneft — the first in mid-April, and two published over the past week. Adler’s operations support US coup plans in Venezuela and US sanctions against Rosneft and its chief executive, Igor Sechin. The three publications — the first already corrected by the news agency; the second commissioned from a writer...

Press (media) freedom is not enough. A free press must also serve the function for which is the right to free expression, especially in a liberal democracy where freedom depends on an informed electorate rather than a manipulated one. Using media for narrative control is antithetical to liberal democracy.This includes investigating sources rather than acting as a stenographer for propaganda fronts and intel disinformation plants.Caitlin Johnstone — Rogue JournalistNarrative Management =...

For those [journalists] who want to keep their jobs, police raids and prosecutions are reminders when self-censorship isn’t enough to prevent their investigating abuses of the law, war crimes, fraud and corruption. The first home truth is that truth is loss-making for an enterprise; pauperizing for its reporter. The second home truth is that in wartime – that’s now – truth-telling may be a criminal offence which will get the reporter time in jail. Dances with BearsHOME TRUTHS AND PRESS...

Bloomberg View The New Assange Indictment Endangers JournalismEli Lake RT'Modern fascism is breaking cover': Journalists react to Assange Espionage Act charges Buzzfeed Legal experts say the new indictment against Assange is the first time the Justice Department has used the Espionage Act to charge a third party — not the government leaker — with publishing classified information. Press Freedom Groups Say The New Charges Against Julian Assange Are A Threat To JournalistsZoe Tillman The...

Nine media outlets have been registered as foreign agents by Russia’s Justice Ministry, in accordance with a recently passed law. The law comes in response to the US Congress’s moves towards RT America. On Tuesday, Voice of America and Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, including its regional branch Radio Azatliq, along with six other outlets were recognized as foreign agents, according to the website of Russia’s Ministry of Justice. The list also includes the Kavkaz.Realii, Krym Realii...

On Wednesday, the Hungarian Foreign Ministry summoned US envoy David Kostelancik to formally complain about Washington’s new $700,000 initiative to fund rural media outlets in the country. The program provides technical and financial assistance to these media outlets, granting them increased exposure as well as small grants.… Of course, there is some irony in the United States — a country that itself has experienced a precipitous drop in press freedom, from 20th in 2010 to 43rd in 2017...

Stigmatizing Russian broadcasting is the latest unnecessary escalation in the new Cold War. Western elites are playing with fire in the expectation of political gain at the expense of risking war and threatening liberal democracy in a bogus attempt to defend it.On the other hand, sates do has the right and responsibility to protect themselves from foreign influence, and tin this regard the US has also been a key player in influencing other countries.So there lines that need to be drawn. The...

“We have never used Russian law in relation to foreign correspondents as a lever of pressure, or censorship, or some kind of political influence, never,” [Russian Federation foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria]] Zakharova said in an interview with Russia’s NTV broadcaster. “But this is a particular case.”She cited a 1991 Russian law which, she said, stated that if a Russian media outlet is subject to restrictions in a foreign country, then Moscow has the right to impose proportionate...