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Unspun
Amanda Sturgill
The new censorship and your right to know: UnSpun Journal Club
SEP 22, 202622 MIN
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Description
What happens when censorship stops looking like censorship?
In this episode of UnSpun journal club, DrSturg looks at the book The New Censorship: How the War on the Media Is Taking Us Down, which looks at how populist authoritains harm journalism without controlling the press by using society's norms against it. These leaders are all over the world, but have in common a view of a society splot between “the people” and “the elites.” Journalists who don't support the leader are the enemy. The core freedom isn't freedom of speech. It is whether the public still has a meaningful right to know.
Episode cover image is from Wikimedia Commons by user Mobilus In Mobili
LINKS
The book
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-New-Censorship/Ayala-Panievsky/9781804441114
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