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Today Is World Press Freedom Day, Hurrah – Except In Many Places In Our World Journalists Have Little Joy, Just Harassment and Imprisonment --- Philip Stone May 3, 2007
Today is World Press Freedom Day, a day, as the United Nations reminds us, to remember the media’s vital role in promoting sustainable peace, democracy and development. And yet conditions for independent media are worsening in many parts of the world, threatening democracy and human rights, according to the non-governmental Freedom House that has issued a chilling report on the decline in press freedoms globally, and how Internet freedom in particular is under siege in some countries.

Far-Right Politicians Charge After Mob-Hunting Author --- Michael Hedges November 17, 2022 - Follow on Twitter
Public figures are urged to take stands in support of civil liberties and humanitarian causes. Sometimes they do and sometimes not. This includes those in the literary and journalism worlds. The upside is public acclaim. The downsides are lawsuits and worse.

Killings, Arrests, Intimidation – They Continue In Our Global Media Village --- Philip M. Stone October 6, 2010 Follow on Twitter
Those of us living in societies where freedom of the press is a given can easily forget in just how many places in the world such freedoms are still being fought for daily with lives, imprisonment and intimidation.