Journalism

Journalists File Suit Against Gag Rules In Public Agencies

February 5, 2024 Kathryn Foxhall, PR Office Censorship. Resist! Gag Rules, Journalism, Legal System, Press Freedom

In apparently unprecedented legal actions, two separate suits have been filed for journalists against public agencies for having gag rules prohibiting employees or contractors from speaking to reporters. Previously, similar suits on employee speech to journalists have been filed and won by parties including unions or employers. Many people, including attorneys, have thought that journalists could not file such actions for themselves. However, in August investigative journalist Brittany Hailer sued the Allegheny County Jail in Pittsburgh for allegedly having such speech restrictions even while a number of deaths occurred in the facility.

Press Freedom Advocates Demand Police Drop Charges Against Journalist

January 30, 2024 Jeremy Appel, Alberta Native News. Resist! Canada, Indigenous Rights, Journalism, Legal System, Police, Press Freedom

Press freedom advocates joined together on Jan. 29 to call for the dropping of criminal charges against Indigenous journalist Brandi Morin, who was arrested while covering Edmonton police’s raid on an inner city homeless tent encampment. Morin, a former Alberta Native News contributor, was charged with obstructing a peace officer on Jan. 10 while filming the Edmonton Police Service (EPS) and City of Edmonton’s final raid of an eight-encampment sweep on assignment for the online news outlet Ricochet. If convicted, Morin could face up to two years in prison. Morin was arrested while filming the dismantling of the Indigenous-led 95th Street and Rowland Road encampment, which had been cordoned off with police tape.

High School Journalists Are Fighting Back Against Censorship

January 26, 2024 Marium Zahra, Prism. Resist! Censorship, Journalism, Journalists, Press Freedom, Student Journalists, Youth Activism

From book bans to anti-critical race theory laws adopted by 28 states, youth censorship is increasingly becoming an issue in U.S. high schools, especially for young journalists. Students say school newspapers are one of the few outlets high schoolers have to report on their communities and that limiting what they can write about directly immobilizes their voices. “[Administrative censorship] firmly says that youth expression should only be at the discretion of the adults in their environment,” said McGlauthon Fleming IV, a high school student from Midlothian, Texas. Despite Tinker v. Des Moines, the historic 1969 SCOTUS ruling that states neither students nor teachers “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate,” student censorship finds a loophole in the precedent set by Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier case.

Joe Sacco, Author Of ‘Footnotes In Gaza,’ On Journalism And Palestine

January 20, 2024 Chris Hedges, The Real News Network. Resistance Report Chris Hedges, Gaza, Israel, Journalism, Palestine

The cartoonist Joe Sacco invented nonfiction and graphic journalism, marrying rigorous and detailed reporting with illustrations that leap off the page and give his stories a texture, depth, and visceral power that is often hard to match for writers. He pioneered this work with nine issues on the Palestinians living under Israeli occupation, from 1993-1995. The nine comics, later published as the book, Palestine, educated a generation about the tragedy that has gripped the Palestinians since the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. Palestine, which gained a cult following, won an American Book Award and is a staple on college syllabuses across the country. Edward Said, in the introduction to Palestine, wrote, “With the exception of one or two novelists and poets, no one has ever rendered this terrible state of affairs better than Joe Sacco.”

The Outsider Among Us

January 8, 2024 Patrick Lawrence, Consortium News. Educate! History, John Pilger, Journalism, Media

In the spring of 1983, the late and greatly missed John Pilger began broadcasting a series of interviews called The Outsiders on British television. His subjects ranged widely. Costa–Gavras, Jessica Mitford, Seán MacBride, the Irish political figure and 1974 Nobelist Helen Suzman, the South African anti-apartheid activist. Pilger chose “people who have lived their lives outside the system,” as the Channel 4 tagline put it. My personal favorites among John’s interviewees, the ones who mean the most to me, were Wilfred Burchett and Martha Gellhorn, two of the 20th century’s most exceptional foreign correspondents.

Moms Against Fascism

December 30, 2023 Dayton Martindale, In These Times. Resist! California, Fascism, Journalism, LGBTQ, Media, Moms Against Fascism, Proud Boys, Transgender Rights, Zines

In Southern California’s inland empire, far-right activists associated with The Proud Boys have spent the past year hanging banners from overpasses to broadcast queerphobic messages across the region. “Parents of Trans Kids Promote Mental Illness,” they read. Or: “The Rainbow Belongs to God, Not to LGBTQ.” The banner battle is just one front in an ongoing conflict surrounding the region’s Redlands schools. A network of LGBTQ parents and allies, including several from the group Safe Redlands Schools (SRS), have a text line to receive alerts from community members warning when a new banner drops — to make sure it’s taken down.

The Cost Of Bearing Witness

December 26, 2023 Chris Hedges, Scheer Post. Educate! Gaza, Journalism, Media, Palestine, Press Freedom

Writing and photographing in wartime are acts of resistance, acts of faith. They affirm the belief that one day – a day the writers, journalists and photographers may never see – the words and images will evoke empathy, understanding, outrage and provide wisdom. They chronicle not only the facts, although facts are important, but the texture, sacredness and grief of lives and communities lost. They tell the world what war is like, how those caught in its maw of death endure, how there are those who sacrifice for others and those who do not, what fear and hunger are like, what death is like.

Reporters Criminalized For ‘Routine Journalism’ In 2023

December 21, 2023 Kevin Gosztola, The Dissenter. Educate! Journalism, New McCarthyism, Press Freedom, Press Freedom Tracker, United States

In 2023, the United States government armed the Israeli military in an assault and siege on Gaza that has killed over 75 journalists. It has repeatedly been confirmed that military forces targeted journalists—and their families—to eliminate them and their coverage of the war. Despite increased calls from the Australian government and other world leaders to drop the charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the U.S. government still backs an unprecedented prosecution that civil liberties, human rights, and press freedom organizations have labeled a dangerous threat to journalism and freedom of expression.

Israel Is Wiping Out Gaza’s Journalists: A Tribute

December 16, 2023 Mnar Adley, MintPress News. Resistance Report Gaza, Israel, Journalism, Journalists, Media, Palestine, Press Freedom

I recently became the recipient of the Women and Media Award from the Women’s Institute of the Freedom of the Press. While it’s truly an honor to receive this recognition for the journalism that I direct at MintPress News, it’s nearly impossible for me to revel in this accolade when my heart is weighed down heavily by the ongoing turmoil in Gaza. As a Palestinian-American journalist who has lived under the oppressive shadow of Israeli occupation and witnessed firsthand the relentless brutality of the apartheid regime, I cannot remain silent as my people face relentless oppression and violence. I want to dedicate this award to the fearless journalists in Gaza who are risking their lives to show us the raw reality of life under Israeli bombs.

Ann Boyer’s Powerful New York Times Resignation Letter

November 19, 2023 Staff , Scheer Post. Resist! Israel, Journalism, New York Times (NYT), Palestine, Resignation, US Imperialism, Wars and Militarism

According to Literary Hub, “[Early on November 16, 2023], the news broke that Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, essayist, and poetry editor of the New York Times Magazine, Anne Boyer, has resigned from her post, writing in her resignation letter that ‘the Israeli state’s U.S.-backed war against the people of Gaza is not a war for anyone…'” The letter in full is written below: I have resigned as poetry editor of the New York Times Magazine. The Israeli state’s U.S-backed war against the people of Gaza is not a war for anyone. There is no safety in it or from it, not for Israel, not for the United States or Europe, and especially not for the many Jewish people slandered by those who claim falsely to fight in their names. Its only profit is the deadly profit of oil interests and weapon manufacturers.

We Are Spartacus

November 12, 2023 John Pilger, Consortium News. Educate! Censorship, Democracy, Fascism, Freedom of the Press, Journalism

Spartacus was a 1960 Hollywood film based on a book written secretly by the blacklisted novelist Howard Fast, and adapted by the screenplay writer Dalton Trumbo, one of the ‘Hollywood 10’ who were banned for their ‘un-American’ politics. It is a parable of resistance and heroism that speaks unreservedly to our own times. Both writers were Communists and victims of Senator Joseph McCarthy, chairman of the Government Operations Committee and its Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the U.S. Senate, which, during the Cold War, destroyed the careers and often the lives of those principled and courageous enough to stand up to a homegrown fascism in America.

The Power Of Journalism: Abusive Cop Sentenced To A Year In Prison

October 30, 2023 Ken Armstrong, Pro Publica. Educate! Accountability, Journalism, Local Media, Police abuse

When I began working at ProPublica in the fall of 2017, the Valley Courier was 30 years behind me. But I still loved local news. And, as luck would have it, ProPublica was just then launching an initiative called the Local Reporting Network. The mission of the Local Reporting Network, or the LRN as we call it, is both simple and righteous. Mindful of the many local news organizations that are shrinking or disappearing, ProPublica partners with local newsrooms strapped for resources, to help them execute bold investigative projects. The first group of LRN partners published stories in 2018. And one of that first group’s members was Christian Sheckler, then a reporter at the South Bend Tribune in Indiana.

US Government And NewsGuard Sued By Consortium News

October 24, 2023 Consortium News. Resist! Defamation, First Amendment, Journalism, Legal System, NewsGuard

The United States government and internet “watchdog” NewsGuard Technologies, Inc. were sued today in federal court in Manhattan for First Amendment violations and defamation by news organization Consortium for Independent Journalism, a nonprofit that publishes Consortium News. Consortium News‘s court filing charges the Pentagon’s Cyber Command, an element of the Intelligence Community, with contracting with NewsGuard to identify, report and abridge the speech of American media organizations that dissent from U.S. official positions on foreign policy.

Israeli Attacks On Journalists Stifle Reporting On Gaza Horrors

October 20, 2023 Ari Paul, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. Educate! Censorship, Israel, Journalism, Media, Palestine, Wars and Militarism

The Israeli communications minister’s attempt to shut down Al Jazeera’s bureau in Jerusalem—on the grounds that the Qatari news outlet is biased in favor of Hamas and is actively endangering Israeli troops (Reuters, 10/15/23)—should inspire some déjà vu. In the last war in Gaza, an Israeli air strike destroyed a Gaza building housing both Al Jazeera and Associated Press offices (AP, 5/15/21). And just months ago, Al Jazeera (5/18/23) reported that “the family of Shireen Abu Akleh,” a Palestinian-American AJ journalist killed by Israeli fire while on assignment, “has rebuked Israel for saying it is ‘sorry’ for the Al Jazeera reporter’s death without providing accountability or even acknowledging that its forces killed her.”

The Need For A Less Hypocritical Center At The New York Times

October 19, 2023 Jim Naureckas, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. Educate! Israel, Journalism, Media, Media Bias, New York Times (NYT), Palestine

“Part of what makes the depravity of the edgelord anti-imperialists so tragic is that a decent and functional left has rarely been more necessary,” Michelle Goldberg wrote in her New York Times column (10/12/23). Funny—the crisis in Israel/Palestine is making me think we could sure use a less hypocritical center. In the wake of the upsurge in violence, Goldberg had harsh words for progressives: “Some on the left are treating the terrorist mass murder of civilians as noble acts of anticolonial resistance,” Goldberg said. “The way keyboard radicals have condoned war crimes against Israelis has left many progressive Jews alienated from political communities they thought were their own.”

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