Jim Naureckas — Judge Tells Jury: Informing Public May Be Criminal Conspiracy

Land of the free and home of the brave, or police state?

Only the judiciary stands between the government and the people in a constitutional oligarchy republic. Subversion of the judiciary is a high priority of the establishment in maintaining and extending control.

FAIR
Judge Tells Jury: Informing Public May Be Criminal Conspiracy

Jim Naureckas

Julia Conley — ACLU Sounds Alarm After DC Cops Tell Journalists to Delete Protest Photos

Controlling the narrative with censorship.

The Anti-Media
ACLU Sounds Alarm After DC Cops Tell Journalists to Delete Protest Photos
Julia Conley

The Saker — Counter-Propaganda, Russian Style

The low down on the information war from the Russian POV.

The Unz Review
Counter-Propaganda, Russian Style
The Saker

Contrast with:

Counterpunch
When Liberals Run Out of Patience: the Impolite Exile of Seymour Hersh

Dave Wagner

AFP — Turkish journalists charged over claim that secret services armed Syrian rebels

"Our guys" in Turkey. Looks like they are following the example of the US.

A court in Istanbul has charged two journalists from the opposition Cumhuriyet newspaper with spying after they alleged Turkey’s secret services had sent arms to Islamist rebels in Syria.

Can Dundar, the editor-in-chief, and Erdem Gul, the paper’s Ankara bureau chief, are accused of spying and “divulging state secrets”, Turkish media reported. Both men were placed in pre-trial detention.

According to Cumhuriyet, Turkish security forces in January 2014 intercepted a convoy of trucks near the Syrian border and discovered boxes of what the daily described as weapons and ammunition to be sent to rebels fighting against Syrian president Bashar al-Assad.

It linked the seized trucks to the Turkish national intelligence organisation (MIT).The revelations, published in May, caused a political storm in Turkey, and enraged president Recep Tayyip Erdogan who vowed Dundar would pay a “heavy price”.He personally filed a criminal complaint against Dundar, 54, demanding he serve multiple life sentences.

Turkey has vehemently denied aiding Islamist rebels in Syria, such as the Islamic State group, although it wants to see Assad toppled....

The Cumhuriyet daily was awarded the media watchdog’s 2015 Press Freedom Prize just last week, with Dundar travelling to Strasbourg to receive the award.

“If these two journalists are imprisoned, it will be additional evidence that the Turkish authorities are ready to use methods worthy of a bygone age in order to suppress independent journalism in Turkey,” said RSF secretary general Christophe Deloire in a statement.

The Guardian
Turkish journalists charged over claim that secret services armed Syrian rebels

AFP

Magazine editors accused of coup plot and Gülenists detained in wake of Justice and Development party’s resounding electoral victory

Turkey: journalists and political rivals arrested as Erdoğan crackdown widens (Nov 3)

Kareem Shaheen

Jon Hellevig — Russia's Foreign-Owned Media Are Losing Their Freedom to Mislead

The legislation in question would limit foreign ownership of all Russian media companies to 20 percent.… 

TMT goes on to claim that “foreign media investors did not come to Russia to threaten its national security or harness public opinion in order to stage a hostile coup and eventually make the country disintegrate…” 

Excuse me, but this is precisely what they have been up to. It is clear that regime change has been at the top on their agenda. 

Next we are told that the foreign media: “...came here to earn money, and they did, contributing in turn to Russia's growing prosperity.” But The Moscow Times itself has lost money almost each year since its establishment. I also understand Vedomostihas never been in the black. Using their own logic, we can conclude that money is not what they are after. The Moscow Times has a very different mission.

Russia Insider

Russia's Foreign-Owned Media Are Losing Their Freedom to Mislead
Jon Hellevig

Alert — Freedom of the press under attack?

Guardian journalist Luke Harding says paragraphs of his writing mysteriously disappeared while working on his latest book 'The Snowden Files.'

Bizarre. Much more to the story than the headline implies. 

Transcript of Amy Goodman's interview of The Guardian's Luke Harding.

AlterNet
'The Paragraph Began to Self-Delete': Did NSA Hack Snowden Biographer's Computer?
Amy Goodman | Democracy Now!

Lawrence E. Rafferty — Is Freedom of the Press Dead?

Not quite dead yet, but on life-support.

Jonathan Turley
Is Freedom of the Press Dead?
Lawrence E. Rafferty (rafflaw)-Guest Blogger

The Assange Affair — Fabius Maximus shows how to do journalism

Just the facts, ma'am.

Summary: The Affair Assange provides a mirror in which we can see ourselves and our institutions. It’s not a pretty picture.

Fabius Maximus.com
The Affair Assange rips off the veil concealing the face of modern journalism
Fabius Maximus