Beating up on executive pay is a no brainer for the tabloid media, but it seems the Herald Sun has differing standards when it comes to its own.
Media censorship
Mon dieu! Sarkozy spies on journalists
A French satirical weekly, Le Canard Enchainé, accused president Sarkozy of “supervising the spying of French journalists”, claiming that intelligence agencies were forced to investigate and monitor calls of journalists who were critical against the government.
Fiji censorship like dark matter: impossible to see, but still there
Censorship is an almost all pervading thing; anything even slightly critical is blue-pencilled out of existence. But it’s what’s not there that’s most important, writes Michael Field.
Is BP keeping journalists away from the oil spill?
Journalists have accused BP and the US Coast Guard of restricting their access to the areas worst affected by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Are the two in cahoots to keep the public from seeing the real environmental impact of the disaster?
WikiLeaks founder is crying wolf
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange reckons the Australian Government is out to get him. Gawker calls bullshit: he’s pulled PR stunts like this before.
Why I was banned from Guantanamo
An interview with veteran Miami Herald reporter Carol Rosenberg, who was recently banned from reporting on the Omar Khadr trial at Guantanamo Bay after publishing the name of an anonymous witness. She defends her actions.
Sweetman’s exit leaves sour note over Joint Strike Fighter reporting
One of the foremost critics in the US of the Joint Strike Fighter fiasco, Bill Sweetman, has been pulled off the case by his employer, Aviation Week, and a fire storm of anger is burning in the American media.
Mags start self-censoring to please Apple
Apple’s “no-nipples” policy means fashion magazines are now censoring their iPad editions to keep their titles in iTunes. Apparently the latest edition of Dazed & Confused has been nick-named “the Iran edition”.
Stop press! Fiji’s censorship goes bananas
Fiji has announced an even further tightening of its strict media censorship, to lessen foreign ownership and positively depict Bainimarama’s regime. Is this an attempt to better control the Rupert Murdoch owned Fiji Times?
Mark Scott: The trouble with reporting the truth
Today is World Press Freedom Day. ABC boss Mark Scott reflects on the lack of free speech, government censorship and media control in countries — Fiji, Sri Lanka etc — less fortunate than our own.
CJR: It’s time for the media to stop arse-kissing Apple
While news outlets are busy holding Apple and its iPad up as the saviour of news, the company is increasingly strengthening its grip over what actually gets published. We need to wrestle control back, before it’s too late, warns the CJR.
Berlusconi busted trying to censor the press
After learning that the state broadcaster was to show a program focused on corruption cases against him, Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi went on a tirade against the country’s broadcasting regulator.
Reporters Without Borders: Don’t do it, Rudd!
Reporters without Borders is so furious with Stephen Conroy’s planned internet filter that it has penned an open letter to the PM, reports Colin Jacobs — a development which should be alarming to anyone concerned with our image as an open democracy in the world.
Environmental journalists: the new endangered species
Environmental journalists are increasingly facing threats and violence, as governments and industry attempt to cover up their poor environmental practises.
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Big Oil continues to gag the UK press
The BBC has deleted an article about toxic-waste dumping by oil giant Trafigura amidst legal threats, according to Wikileaks, which has a copy of the vanished piece.
Howzat?! AP, Reuters, FP boycott Aussie cricket
News agencies the Associated Press, Reuters and Agence France-Presse are refusing to cover Australia’s three-test series against the West Indies in protest over Cricket Australia’s attempts to restrict their coverage of the event.
Why we need an R18+ classification for video games
Australia remains one of the few first world countries to lack an 18+ classification for video games. By restricting a large portion of the gaming market, we become victims of media censorship, says Joel Vaughan.
Is Newsweek censoring its letters page?
After running a cover feature on Al Gore, 74% of the letters Newsweek received in response were negative. Yet, according to NewsBusters, the magazine ran only positive letters in its following edition. And it’s not the first time.
China fails to fall in love with Obama
US President Barack Obama is on a diplomatic visit to China, but is struggling to win the country’s citizens over with his usually irresistible charms. Perhaps it’s because he’s being kept on a tight leash and well away from the media spotlight.
Cuban blogger tells: beaten black and blue by government agents
Cuba’s most famous blogger, Yoani Sanchez of Generation Y blogs about her beating and attempted kidnapping by Cuban state security officials while on her way to a peace march in Havana.
The Newspoll numbers The Australian won’t print
The Australian appears to have decided to not publish the results of an opinion poll on voting intention in the wake of last week’s outlier that had Malcolm Turnbull gaining ground on Kevin Rudd.
Video of the Day: Julian Morrow’s Andrew Olle Media Lecture
The Chaser’s Julian Morrow delivers this year’s Andrew Olle Media Lecture, offering a surprisingly witty and insightful take on press freedom, censorship and media ownership.
US military bans photos of war dead in Afghanistan
The US military has officially banned embedded journalists from taking photos or recording footage of soldiers killed in Afghanistan. Is it press censorship, or just giving the deceased and their families the respect and privacy they deserve?
Berlusconi’s Ministry of Truth
Silvio Berlusconi’s ongoing war against newspapers saying nasty things about him continues, with the Italian PM assembling a crack team of journos and PR hacks to monitor the world’s media for mean comments and “bombard those newsrooms with truthful and positive news.”
Guardian: We’ve been gagged from reporting Parliament
The UK’s Guardian newspaper says it has been censored from reporting on Parliamentary proceedings, after a gag order was placed on the details of a question to be asked later this week in Parliament.
