Central Government Locks Out Digital Media
The Center has put a lock on National Dastak, a Hindi news channel that has gained national attention. On April 3, 2024, the notice of central government directive asking to…
Media Censorhip
Police Case Filed Against Woman Editor Of Magazine In Kerala
by Mrudula Bhavani and P.Ambika A case has been filed against the woman editor of a magazine in Kerala in Kozhikode’s (Calicut) KASBA police station. This time it is against…
Unmasking Media Complicity: The Urgent Call for Truth in Gaza
by Nour Jaghama and Melissa Garriga Bisan Owda, a 25-year-old journalist from Gaza, recently expressed a bleak outlook: 'I no longer have any hope of survival…I am certain that I…
Provocations by the U.S. State Department Can Chill Press Freedom in Latin America
The headline is provocative: “The Kremlin’s Efforts to Covertly Spread Disinformation in Latin America.” This was a statement on the U.S. State Department website, posted on November 7, 2023. The…
Baring Their Claws
There is a news that the government is planning to proceed against 'anti-government content' appearing in media on the lines of British colonial laws that still quietly survive in our…
Suppression of contrarian voices
In the US, we proudly point to the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights that was adopted in 1791: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,…
MediaOne TV Banned, Court Steps In
Ministry of Information and broadcasting suspended the licence of Malayalam television channel MediaOne TV and the channel stopped its broadcast for a few hours yesterday. However, Kerala High Court stepped…
BBC, Free Media, and Julian Assange
A video in which Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev is interviewed by Orla Guerin has resurfaced; the interview took place in November 2020. (The BBC version.) Revealing is what is not…
Bringing media under the control of Babus
The Information Technology Act, Section 79 provided that the intermediaries are not liable for the content generated by users. The text is, "an intermediary shall not be liable for any…
The Muted Voices of Kashmir
Written By Shubham Bijalwan & Abhishek Sanwaria While media censorship is an issue pestering the entire nation today, the situation in Kashmir is grave. The self-governing territory has become…
Controlling the fourth pillar of democracy – Media censorship in Kashmir
Media censorship by the Indian government has become a large issue in Kashmir, the government's actions being unchecked in deciding what news should reach the Kashmir citizens. The freedom of…
Kashmir Times Office Sealed In Srinagar
Jammu and Kashmir Estates Department today sealed the office of Kashmir Times in Srinagar that was allotted to it in a government building in Press Enclave that houses several other…
Spiteful Authority: Malaysia Goes for the Journalists
Malaysia’s record on letting journalists be is a blotted one. This month, authorities have been kept busy intimidating the independent news outlet Malaysiakini, with a seven-member federal court panel agreeing…
Facebook’s New Propaganda Partners
Media giant Facebook recently announced (Reuters, 9/19/18) it would combat “fake news” by partnering with two propaganda organizations founded and funded by the US government: the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and the International…
Zionist Subversion, Mainstream Media Censorship
While numerous anti-racist Jewish intellectuals are resolutely critical of the ongoing Palestinian Genocide, Western Mainstream Media variously censor or white-wash the nuclear terrorist, genocidally racist, and grossly human rights-abusing…
The ‘Undeclared Emergency’ And The State Of Media In India
As Henry Grunwald puts it “Journalism can never be silent, that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault”. But what can be more distressing for a democracy than silencing…
Surveillance: MSM’s Dismay With The Tool Of Coercion
The “all”-correct mainstream media has recently “discovered” a very, very hard fact: journalists are kept under surveillance. Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service (BND), the country’s foreign intelligence agency, spied upon scores…
Mark Zuckerberg, Don’t Get Hoodwinked By Media And Politicians
Shortly after Hillary Clinton's crushing defeat, the media came up with another spin: Zuckerberg and Facebook were held responsible for her debacle! What crap! Facebook apparently carried "fake news". Didn't…
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