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| In the recent past, the issue of a lack of press freedom was considered to be a problem only within developing nations, which were often run by dictatorships, or unfair political systems, but nowadays press freedom is an issue for us all. The freedom of the internet has educated us to the fact that many of those dictatorships were actually set up, and managed, by our own western governments, and now they have turned their attention to their own people. Our governments are attempting to clamp down on the very freedom, and lack of censorship, which the internet has awarded to us, with the United States leading this charge to curtail our freedom of expression, and to cut off our widespread access to knowledge. |
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| The majority of the western mainstream media is owned and controlled by a handful of very rich individuals, and this is how our media has been used to massage the kind of news we receive, and the level of coverage which particular news stories will get. Rather than being a people-centred institution, nowadays the media tends to be something which is used to build up the public's perception of major incidents, or to re-focus people's attention away from important issues, and it appears to be getting more biased over the years. Something must be done to get honesty back into the news which we are fed. |
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| Wikileaks is becoming one of the big global issues of our time. The United States government is doing everything it can to put an end to this global group of activists, including attacking them with propaganda, and with technology through hacking attacks, plus threatening businesses and others who have relationships with them. Is this a form of terrorism, when all Wikileaks are doing is releasing the people's information, back to the people? National security is often cited as a reason for not being forthright with the public, by all governments, but if they were doing good things, would there really be any reason to hide their secret dealings? |
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| Browse 200 news sources from around the globe, sorted by type of news source, and by country. Plus search 200 English-speaking news sources at once with our BIG NEWS SEARCH. |
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| The legal pressure on Julian Assange and WikiLeaks is mounting. The founder of WikiLeaks has governments all over the world calling for his arrest after the release of thousands of classified US documents, and Washington is said to be considering its options on how to press charges against WikiLeaks for revealing confidential US diplomatic cables. In this show Al-Jazeera asks: How long can Julian Assange hide? And under what law can he be prosecuted? |
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| An insight into how the US military handled the media during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. This film manages to capture a slice of what goes on behind the scenes at the CENTCOM media centre, while giving us a glimpse into Al-Jazeera's coverage of the war too. The story of how the US bombed Al-Jazeera's Baghdad offices, resulting in the death of reporter, Tareq Ayyoub, is also covered. |
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| The controversial website WikiLeaks collects and posts highly classified documents and video. Founder Julian Assange, who's reportedly being sought for questioning by US authorities, talks to TED's Chris Anderson about how the site operates, what it has accomplished - and what drives him. |
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| In this speech, Assange chooses to focus specifically on WikiLeaks's work against censorship and human rights abuses committed by Western governments. Paraphrasing Orwell, Assange explains that he who controls today's internet servers controls the intellectual record of mankind. |
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| Interview - An interview with John Pilger on Democracy Now! in which he defends WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange, and says that the public has a right to know the secrets of governments that impinge on our democratic rights. |
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| VJmovement - Within this report, we get to hear from some journalists who have tried to expose the high-level governmental corruption relating to the nation's oil wealth, and how they have been silenced for many years. |
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| VJmovement - The state censorship by the oppressive Burmese military Junta has forced any real investigative journalism underground, with many reporters remaining jailed for speaking out, therefore reporters must operate anonymously and in secret. (external video) |
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