The threats to freedom of speech, and how major Media Organisations, such as the bbc, see their role in responding to this. Its a lot to get through and were going to start by understanding how restrictions on the press affect the information that people are able to access, and well begin with the situation in three countries that have a long history of muzzling the media russia, china and iran. And with us, weve got three experts from Bbc Monitoring. It, as the name suggests, monitors Media Activity Around The World. Kia atri follows the iranian media and, kia, just describe first a regular a normal person, if you can say that in iran what is their media diet . What sorts of information are they getting, and where from . Their first exposure would be the mainstream media, the state media. Now, its a very nuanced picture because, yes, there is some kind of free debate, except that there are quite a lot of red lines that the state imposes on the media you cannot criticise islam, you can
In some parts of the world and the economist calculates that more than 39 of the worlds population lives under authoritarian rule. Well, across this edition of the media show, were going to discuss how states are now major sources of disinformation, how technology is changing the threats to freedom of speech, and how major Media Organisations, such as the bbc, see their role in responding to this. Its a lot to get through and were going to start by understanding how restrictions on the press affect the information that people are able to access, and well begin with the situation in three countries that have a long history of muzzling the media russia, china and iran. And with us, weve got three experts from Bbc Monitoring. It, as the name suggests, monitors Media Activity Around The World. Kia atri follows the iranian media and, kia, just describe first a regular a normal person, if you can say that in iran what is their media diet . What sorts of information are they getting and where
Of the world, and The Economist calculates that more than 39 of the worlds population lives under authoritarian rule. Well, across this edition of The Media Show, were going to discuss how states are now major sources of disinformation, how technology is changing the threats to freedom of speech, and how major Media Organisations such as the bbc see their role in responding to this. Its a lot to get through, and were going to start by understanding how restrictions on the press affect the information that people are able to access. And well begin with the situation in three countries that have a long history of muzzling the media russia, china and iran. And with us, weve got three experts from bbc monitoring. It, as the name suggests, monitors Media Activity Around The World. Kia atri follows the iranian media and, kia, just describe first a regular. A normal person, if you can say that in iran. What is their media diet . What sorts of information are they getting and where from . Thei
Freedom is elusive. The Reuters Institute for the study Ofjournalism Talks of democratic backsliding in some parts of the world, and The Economist calculates that more than 39 of the worlds population lives under authoritarian rule. Well, across this edition of the media show, were going to discuss how states are now major sources of disinformation, how technology is changing the threats to freedom of speech, and how major Media Organisations such as the bbc see their role in responding to this. Its a lot to get through, and were going to start by understanding how restrictions on the press affect the information that people are able to access. And well begin with the situation in three countries that have a long history of muzzling the media russia, china and iran. And with us, weve got three experts from bbc monitoring. It, as the name suggests, monitors Media Activity Around The World. Kia atri follows the iranian media and, kia, just describe first a regular. A normal person, if yo
Failed to convince enough members of his party to back a stop gap measure that would fund federal agencies for another month, while Congress Worked on long term spending plans. This means at midnight eastern time on sunday, the Us Government will run out of money to fund itself unless congress can agree a last minute deal. The republicans, who hold a slim majority in the house of representatives, are in a deadlock, with members on the right of the party demanding wide ranging Spending Cuts. One of that groups main objections has been the white houses request for an additional 24 billion in aid to ukraine. Mr mccarthy urged the senate to drop that measure from its resolution. I think if we had a clean one without ukraine on it, we could probably be able to move that through. I think if the senate puts ukraine on there and focuses ukraine over america, i think that could cause real problems. Earlier, megan scully is Bloomberg Congress editor joined me with her reporting on capitol hill.