World Press Freedom Day, while celebrating advances in free media and protection for journalists, is often a sobering reminder of just how little press freedom exists in many parts of the world. It’s evidenced by the World Press Freedom Index, released on April 20 by Reporters Without Borders (also known as Reporters Sans Frontières).”Journalistic independence is being undermined in both state and privately-owned media as a result of enhanced mechanisms for censorship and news control, propaganda apparatuses, and ideologies – especially religious extremism – that are hostile to journalism,” RSF said in a statement Monday in advance of the commemoration.Here’s …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
