some officials and law enforcement seems to be seriously engaged in a struggle with the media. Who is to blame for that stolen money? Journalists who wrote about this. Who is to blame that people came to the rally? Again, the journalists that covered!
the detention of the reporters (previously almost unthinkable, akin to the emergency event) has now become almost commonplace. Criminal and administrative cases for correspondents and editors – almost familiar story. Failure to provide information – the current reality.
what is going on — this is a real war against us. And they fight how not fake news (as issued), and the fact that the media did not expose their own fakes and did not show the truths you want to hide.
“the journalists bad time?” asked during an interview with a journalist of a popular Israeli TV channel. Foreign colleagues were to list the recent detentions of journalists in Russia. I said that in this trend is hidden a very positive grain. “What good is it? Are you talking about?!” – did not understand colleagues.
I mean, journalists in the last time ceases to write only what pleases the authorities, I ceased to look in the mouth to officials, no longer afraid of the security forces that have “for every reporter assembled a daddy.” They learned to assert their rights and demand from the authorities the truth. They finally began to unite in defence of each other (stories of Ivan Golunova, Svetlana Prokopieva, many other an illustration).
But all this, of course, is a separate world powers only heartburn. Covert installation – select the media their place. And this is not the place of the “fourth power”, and subservient to the interests of the powerful. Because the case against the reporters are growing like mushrooms, but the complaint from them comes from all over the country.
Here are just a small extract from the applications received in the monitoring center of the Council on human rights under the President for the last two months (data of the head of the center Alexander alymova).
Nizhny Novgorod. The trial of the head of the Agency “Open Bottom” Alexander Pichugin for a humorous post in telegrams-channel “Sorokin tail”. Our colleague charged with the public dissemination of false information about the circumstances. The process is closed! Why? Journalists (even after the letters cjr the Governor and the judge!) not allowed at the meeting.
Vologda oblast. Detained (by force) the journalists of the newspaper “Position” Eugene Domozhirova and his colleagues Evgeny Lapin. They were accused of violation of the regime of restrictive measures in connection with the coronavirus infection. In fact, Yevgeny Domozhirov covered the problem of illegal construction on one of the streets of Vologda.
Republic of Karelia. The Minister of agriculture and fisheries Vladimir Labinov has banned the journalist of the United editorial Board of the journals “TVR-Panorama and Petrozavodsk says” Antonina Cableway to be in the hall of the open meeting. Explained – he does not like its publication.
…detained more than twenty journalists around the prison, which sits Ivan Safronov. Colleagues waited until there will come a lawyer and give a comment. And “screw” them just because they were wearing the same shirt with the inscription “Freedom for Ivan Safronov”. In the protocols, wrote: “took part in a latent form of collective public events” (to understand, it is better to read twice or even three times).
“just Think, they themselves go to protest! – outraged one General. – What do they think they are? Why think that they are a special caste?
He never thought that it should be. Journalists should be a special caste, the real (not fake) the fourth branch of government that serves the people, not someone’s interests. The generals and the Ministers, unaccustomed to such role of the media, we ourselves are to blame. Our softness is mistaken for weakness and lack of will. That’s because hard and began to deal with those who were not acting the script written by them. Journalists have become in our time is not just a source of breaking news, but those returns to reality and makes you think about simple things. About decency. Of justice. Mercy. And as the author of the “Declaration of independence” Thomas Jefferson, it is better to have Newspapers without government than government without Newspapers.
