Tag: media freedom
RSF tackles Taiwan’s media freedom ‘Achilles heel’, boosts Asia Pacific monitoring action
SPECIAL REPORT: By David Robie in Taipei
It was a heady week for the Paris-based global media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) — celebration...
Caitlin Johnstone: Israel continues its war on journalism
COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone
An Israeli airstrike destroyed the press office of the Lebanese news broadcaster Al Mayadeen on Wednesday night, continuing Israel’s historically unprecedented...
John Menadue: America is the most violent, aggressive country in the world
Of the international intelligence information that comes to Australian agencies from the Five Eyes, 90 percent comes from the CIA and related US intelligence...
Gaza killings and the death of Western journalism – why the shocking silence?
COMMENTARY: By Mohamad Elmasry
On Wednesday, 31 July 2024, the Israeli army killed two more Palestinian journalists in Gaza.
Ismail al-Ghoul and Rami al-Rifi were working...
A role for Pacific media in charting a pragmatic global outlook
ANALYSIS: By Shailendra Bahadur Singh and Amit Sarwal in Suva
Given the intensifying situation, journalists, academics and experts joined to state the need for the...
When media freedom as the ‘oxygen of democracy’ and political hypocrisy share the same Pacific arena
By David Robie for Pacific Media Watch
Many platitudes about media freedom and democracy laced last week’s Pacific International Media Conference in the Fijian capital...