Fox News threw everything but the kitchen sink at Kamala Harris

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Fox News was in full attack mode Tuesday night, throwing everything but the kitchen sink at Kamala Harris. From depicting her as a “radical running mate” to mocking the pronunciation of her name to suggesting Joe Biden didn’t actually select her himself, the conservative network’s prime time lineup was in overdrive. Frankly, if you stripped … Read more

Disney just ended the 20th Century Fox brand, one of the most storied names in entertainment

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Disney (DIS) announced on Monday it would be rebranding one of its TV studios, 20th Century Fox Television, as 20th Television. The new name cuts both the “Century” and the “Fox” from the studio’s name. The well known logo and title card, which has the words 20th Television stacked above spotlights, will stay the same … Read more

From Belarus to Hong Kong, journalists ‘are bearing the brunt of the global surge in repression’

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From Hong Kong to Belarus, we are witnessing new infringements on the public and on freedom of the press. I asked Joel Simon, the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, to put this moment into perspective. He wrote: “In Hong Kong, more than 100 police raid the offices of the independent newspaper Apple … Read more

From Belarus to Hong Kong, journalists ‘are bearing the brunt of the global surge in repression’

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From Hong Kong to Belarus, we are witnessing new infringements on the public and on freedom of the press. I asked Joel Simon, the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, to put this moment into perspective. He wrote: “In Hong Kong, more than 100 police raid the offices of the independent newspaper Apple … Read more

Hong Kong media tycoon arrested under new national security law

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The offense was created by a new national security law imposed on the city by Beijing last month. Lai’s business partner Mark Simon said the tycoon was arrested early Monday. By Monday afternoon, Hong Kong police had arrested at least nine people, aged 23 to 72, on suspicion of collusion with foreign forces to endanger … Read more

Hong Kong media tycoon arrested under new national security law

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Jimmy Lai was arrested early Monday, according to his business partner Mark Simon. Apple Daily, a pro-democracy tabloid owned by Lai, reported that the tycoon’s son had already been detained. The Hong Kong Police Force said in a statement Monday that seven people aged between 39 and 72 were arrested on charges, including collusion and … Read more

Harassed, intimidated, detained: Why journalists in India’s Kashmir are afraid of reporting the truth

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They queued for hours to use one of just four computers with an internet connection for an allotted 15 minutes, in a city thrust into an unprecedented communications blackout. Journalists were not excluded from the shutdown. Newspapers went offline. For weeks, print editions did not run. Five days into the shutdown, the Editors’ Guild of … Read more

Harassed, intimidated, detained: Why journalists in India’s Kashmir are afraid of reporting the truth

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They queued for hours to use one of just four computers with an internet connection for an allotted 15 minutes, in a city thrust into an unprecedented communications blackout. Journalists were not excluded from the shutdown. Newspapers went offline. For weeks, print editions did not run. Five days into the shutdown, the Editors’ Guild of … Read more