by Saskia Rowley | Nov 18, 2019 | Communication Rights
In January 1990, the President of Czechoslovakia, Vaclav Havel, warned his people, “The worst thing is that we live in a contaminated moral environment. We fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought.” He was referring to...
by Saskia Rowley | Oct 7, 2019 | Communication Rights
It’s surprising that the issue of “fake news” took so long to raise its head. Deliberate misinformation and bias have been around for as long as journalism itself – more than 400 years by some accounts. The yellow press (a term coined in the 1890s to describe the...
by Saskia Rowley | Jun 24, 2019 | Communication Rights
San Francisco protest, February 2019. Photo: Sheila Fitzgerald/Shutterstock “Elected leaders in many democracies, who should be press freedom’s staunchest defenders, have made explicit attempts to silence critical media voices and strengthen outlets that serve...