Tag Archives : freedom of press

Wikileaks Begins To Get Support From Online Entities As A ‘Journalistic Entity’

Wikileaks Begins To Get Support From Online Entities As A ‘Journalistic Entity’

The newest pain for the U.S intelligence agencies and the Department of Defense, Wikileaks, recently got kicked off the servers of Amazon.com and one of the biggest payment portals, Paypal, refused its services to Wikileaks, in lieu of the immense controversy surrounding the whistle blowing website. However, many in the field of media and publishing [...]
ISHR: Freedom of the Press and Censorship

ISHR: Freedom of the Press and Censorship

International Society for Human Rights (ISHR) distributed dense black highlighter pens to journalists attending a press conference on ‘Freedom of the Press at the 2008 Olympic Games’. There can be no better way of creating awareness about freedom of press and governmental censorship. The symbolic black highlighting pen which would leave a censor [...]