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Russia media crackdown: Rain TV staff resign en masse on air in protest

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Staff at Russia’s independent Rain TV network resign en masse on air to protest media crackdown. Russian regulator issues warning to media to stop reporting false information’ on war. US has accused Moscow of muzzling local independent media in Russia. – Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe – Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish – Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera – Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ #AlJazeeraEnglish #BreakingNews #Russia #MediaCrackdown #Ukraine

The CIA plot against Julian Assange | The Listening Post

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An exposé detailing the CIA’s war on WikiLeaks – a Trump administration plan to silence Julian Assange and the organisation – has been published. But like so much of the Assange story, it’s got nothing like the media coverage it deserves. Contributors: Michael Isikoff – Chief investigative correspondent, Yahoo News Kevin Gosztola – Managing editor, Shadowproof.com Carrie DeCell – Staff attorney, Knight First Amendment Institute Rebecca Vincent – Director of international campaigns & UK bureau director, Reporters Without Borders On our radar: Project Amplify – Facebook’s PR initiative – backfires. Richard Gizbert speaks to producer Meenakshi Ravi about the scrutiny Facebook is under, yet again. Lost in translation: How texts […]

Alain de Botton and Ayishat Akanbi | Studio B: Unscripted

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On this episode of Studio B Unscripted, philosopher Alain de Botton is in conversation with stylist and social commentator Ayishat Akanbi. A best-selling author, whose books have been described as a ‘philosophy of everyday life’, de Botton founded The School of Life, a social enterprise determined to make learning relevant in today’s culture using philosophy to help others ‘live wisely and well’. Ayishat Akanbi is a fashion stylist and writer. Through her work and online following she confronts complex issues related to surviving in today’s society. She uses her platform to comment on and call out injustice and inequality. This meeting of two minds from different backgrounds explores a range […]

🇺🇸 The six words that got Marc Lamont Hill fired from CNN | The Listening Post

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Last week, CNN contributor Marc Lamont Hill delivered a speech at the United Nations in support of Palestinian self-determination and equal rights. Less than 24 hours later, CNN was done with him. When you boil it down, he was fired for the use of six words: ‘from the river to the sea’ – a reference to the territory of historical Palestine, situated between the River Jordan and the Mediterranean prior to the creation of Israel in 1948. The reference was deemed anti-Semitic. “When Marc Lamont Hill says ‘a free Palestine from the river to the sea’, he is acknowledging that Palestinians aren’t just clustered in the West Bank and Gaza […]

Pulling strings: Sinclair Broadcast’s ‘fake news’ scandal | The Listening Post

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The Sinclair Broadcast Group has come under fire following the spread of a video showing anchors at its stations across the United States reading a script criticising “fake” news stories. Typically, the Sinclair editorials do not make much of an impact. But when Timothy Burke, a video editor in Tampa, Florida, collected 44 versions of that editorial – from 44 local news markets, and lay them side by side, allowing Americans to play them back, word for word, the effect was chilling. The reaction was: just what is Sinclair? Unlike Fox News, CNN and MSNBC, Sinclair does not own a national news network so its brand is not that well […]

Covert operations: How the CIA works with Hollywood – Listening Post (Feature)

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The Weinstein story was suppressed by Hollywood, using its legal and financial muscle to keep a lid on it – until now. But there are also power centres in the US government that can dictate to Hollywood: the Pentagon and the CIA. More from The Listening Post on: YouTube – http://aje.io/listeningpostYT Facebook – http://facebook.com/AJListeningPost Twitter – http://twitter.com/AJListeningPost Website – http://aljazeera.com/listeningpost