REVIEW: The struggle for media freedom amid jihadists, gaggers and ‘democratators’

Robie, D. (2015). The struggle for media freedom amid jihadists, gaggers and ‘democratators’. Pacific Journalism Review, 21(2): 197-199. Review of The New Censorship: Inside the global battle for press freedom, by Joel Simon. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. 236 pp. ISBN978-0-231-16064-3....

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:47526360dac442b4afa79a910769faca2021-12-02T08:26:27ZREVIEW: The struggle for media freedom amid jihadists, gaggers and ‘democratators’10.24135/pjr.v21i2.1331023-94992324-2035https://doaj.org/article/47526360dac442b4afa79a910769faca2015-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://ojs.aut.ac.nz/pacific-journalism-review/article/view/133https://doaj.org/toc/1023-9499https://doaj.org/toc/2324-2035 Robie, D. (2015). The struggle for media freedom amid jihadists, gaggers and ‘democratators’. Pacific Journalism Review, 21(2): 197-199. Review of The New Censorship: Inside the global battle for press freedom, by Joel Simon. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. 236 pp. ISBN978-0-231-16064-3. One of the ironies of the digital revolution is that there is an illusion of growing freedom of expression and information in the world, when in fact the reverse is true. These are bleak times with growing numbers of journalists being murdered with impunity, from the Philippines to Somalia and Syria. The world’s worst mass killing of journalists was the so-called Maguindanao, or Ampatuan (named after the town whose dynastic family ordered the killings), massacre when 32 journalists were brutally murdered in the Philippines in November 2009. David RobieAsia Pacific Networkarticlecensorshipdigital democracydigital journalismdigital technologyfreedom of expressionfreedom of informationCommunication. Mass mediaP87-96Journalism. The periodical press, etc.PN4699-5650ENPacific Journalism Review, Vol 21, Iss 2 (2015)
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topic censorship
digital democracy
digital journalism
digital technology
freedom of expression
freedom of information
Communication. Mass media
P87-96
Journalism. The periodical press, etc.
PN4699-5650
spellingShingle censorship
digital democracy
digital journalism
digital technology
freedom of expression
freedom of information
Communication. Mass media
P87-96
Journalism. The periodical press, etc.
PN4699-5650
David Robie
REVIEW: The struggle for media freedom amid jihadists, gaggers and ‘democratators’
description Robie, D. (2015). The struggle for media freedom amid jihadists, gaggers and ‘democratators’. Pacific Journalism Review, 21(2): 197-199. Review of The New Censorship: Inside the global battle for press freedom, by Joel Simon. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. 236 pp. ISBN978-0-231-16064-3. One of the ironies of the digital revolution is that there is an illusion of growing freedom of expression and information in the world, when in fact the reverse is true. These are bleak times with growing numbers of journalists being murdered with impunity, from the Philippines to Somalia and Syria. The world’s worst mass killing of journalists was the so-called Maguindanao, or Ampatuan (named after the town whose dynastic family ordered the killings), massacre when 32 journalists were brutally murdered in the Philippines in November 2009.
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