Tag: media freedom
CPJ condemns ban on Al Jazeera – network decries bid to ‘hide the truth’
Pacific Media Watch
The New York-based global media watchdog Committee to Protect Journalists has condemned a decision by the Palestinian Authority to suspend Al Jazeera’s...
Killing of five Gaza journalists by Israel strike highlights weak NZ media genocide response
By David Robie, convenor of Pacific Media Watch
My message today is really simple but brutal.
Israel kills the journalists deliberately. This is unprecedented. The Western...
Caitlin Johnstone: To be pro-Israel is to be pro-war
COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone
The way raw video evidence debunked the “Amsterdam pogrom” narrative in real time in full view of the entire world is...
New survey finds an alarming tolerance for attacks on the press in the US – particularly among white, Republican men
ANALYSIS: By Julie Posetti and Waqas Ejaz
Press freedom is a pillar of American democracy. But political attacks on US-based journalists and news organisations pose...
Jonathan Cook: Israel kills the journalists. Western media kills the truth of genocide in Gaza
Western publics are being subjected to a campaign of psychological warfare, where genocide is classed as ‘self-defence’ and opposition to it ‘terrorism’. Jonathan Cook...
Martyn Bradbury: My 30 best NZ news sources plus 5 to avoid
COMMENTARY: By Martyn Bradbury, editor of The Daily Blog
Folks, the New Zealand media landscape is imploding and that risks terrible damage to our collective...