A recent report found that over the course of the past year, 271 articles were prohibited by Israel’s military censor and an additional 2,358 were partially or fully redacted.
President Donald Trump and his administration are continuing Obama’s policy of intimidation and contempt for freedom of the press.
Carl Bernstein, the journalist famous for exposing details related to the Watergate scandal, was on MSNBC and described the United States Justice Department’s seizure of phone records of reporters as a “matter of policy” that went all the way up to the president. “The object of it is to try and intimidate people who talk to reporters, especially
You can call it the age of authoritarianism. Or fascism. Or oligarchy. Or the American police state, whatever label you want to put on it, the end result is the same: tyranny.
Big Brother does not watch us, by his choice. We watch him, by ours. There is no need for wardens or gates or Ministries of Truth. When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an
The Department of Justice is being sued over a staggering twenty-seven ongoing investigations into potential leaks.
The Justice Department has twenty-seven ongoing leak investigations, according to Attorney General Jeff Sessions. That is a staggering number, and now, the Knight First Amendment Institute and Freedom of The Press Foundation are suing for records on how those investigations may infringe upon the First Amendment rights of
Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said that the U.S. move was “shocking and unusual” among allies.
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary's foreign minister on Wednesday accused the United States government of meddling in his country's internal affairs and upcoming election campaign by offering to fund "objective media in Hungary."The U.S. has expressed concerns about "negative trends" for press freedom in Hungary, such as a dwindling
“The majority of causes of repression and intimidation, from both the PA and Hamas, has been in regard to speaking out in favor or against one of these two bodies. If an election is to really take place, we see a free and fair press as being an essential part of that process.”
PALESTINE -- Five months after Palestinian Authority (PA) leader Mahmoud Abbas issued the Cybercrime Law by Presidential Decree, the Palestinian Centre for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) has launched an online campaign against the legislation, in a bid to
Streep went after Trump for an incident in which Trump mocked New York Times reporter Serge F. Kovaleski, who has arthrogryposis, an affliction that limits the functioning of his joints.
