The International Communications Forum is convinced that the honesty or dishonesty of media affects the mental health of the world. Freedom of expression is vital as a means of permitting all views to flourish peacefully. It is a cliché that the price of this freedom must be continual vigilance – in particular vigilance to identify and expose the encouragement of malice, war and the incident of hate speech and image.
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Jamming ANN
Something really disturbing is going on. First Khaddam's satellite TV station is jammed by person or persons unknown on hotbird. Then Ribal Al Assad's ANN satellite TV is jammed on Nilesat forcing it to switch to hotbird. Then ANN is jammed on hotbird forcing it off the air. These are Syrian opposition channels being jammed from Libya. If this continues we will see Iranian opposition channels forced off the air next - or Lebanese opposition - or whatever. This goes beyond sick - it is dangerous. Something has to be done about it as the very freedom of the press is at stake. I am not sure what the Libyan government is playing at but it is very unhealthy.
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Censorship
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