One final thought for tonight. My reasons for being concerned about #CDFC and the site edited by @GPEditor.
The term "Lethal Journalism" is itself lethal to the truth. It tars all journalism with falsehood. And naming things is very important.
The term "Lethal Journalism" is itself lethal to the truth. It tars all journalism with falsehood. And naming things is very important.
https://twitter.com/angnamf/status/1423027141374103552?s=20
The term is also dangerous to journalists. cpj.org
32 journalists were killed in 2020 cpj.org/data/killed/20…
And 13 so far in cpj.org/data/killed/20…
Good journalism is utterly vital in the fight for peace. And without journalism democracy cannot function.
32 journalists were killed in 2020 cpj.org/data/killed/20…
And 13 so far in cpj.org/data/killed/20…
Good journalism is utterly vital in the fight for peace. And without journalism democracy cannot function.
The documented use and abuse of journalism in war is also a very serious problem. Especially by the United States but not exclusively.
Information warfare is accelerating at massive pace via social media, and the U.S. is ground zero for its innovation and deployment.
Information warfare is accelerating at massive pace via social media, and the U.S. is ground zero for its innovation and deployment.
It is deeply wrong that misinformation is being used by @SamanthaJPower @PowerUSAID in the Ethiopian conflict. She is herself a journalist and writer.
Her tweet of the @AP #HumeraMassacre story was destructive to both diplomacy and journalism.
Her tweet of the @AP #HumeraMassacre story was destructive to both diplomacy and journalism.
Information warfare using journalism as a vector also runs counter to everything that the US @StateDept is trying to achieve in the developed world with democracy.
Whoever is behind the Geopolitics website is also engaging in information warfare. They claim to be on the side of the angels, but at a practical level their work is attacking both the EU, US and journalism itself.
Anonymously sourced conspiracy thinking is also directly dis-empowering to ordinary people who are trying to understand and participate in democratic debate and fact correction online.
Devaluation of truth is in nobody's interests, except the masters of war and commerce.
Devaluation of truth is in nobody's interests, except the masters of war and commerce.
And the U.S. is not the only super-power or large nation involved in a war against truth. There are would be and actual dictators all over the place who hate a free press.
Finally, I defended @addisstandard a couple of weeks when they were closed down. Thankfully they were reinstated.
Finally if Ethiopia's democracy is to flourish it will need a real free press. And this will require a fight. It always does.
/ENDS
/ENDS
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