The pandemic creates noise that masks media freedom attacks
25 Jan 2021
BY INDEX ON CENSORSHIP
The global Covid-19 pandemic has been the root cause of some of the most concerning and frightening attacks on journalists worldwide.
For The Times’ Red Box, Index’s Head of Content Jemimah Steinfeld laid out why the attacks were so concerning:
“Even we have been shocked by the scale of the attacks,” she said. “Journalists have been detained in Serbia; they’ve been called ‘wimps’ by Brazil’s leader Jair Bolsonaro; they’ve been expelled from China; banned from asking questions at lobby briefings in the UK; assaulted by police in South Africa; cowed by legislative change in Hungary.”
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An Index afternoon discussion on the underreported stories that need to be heard.
From the moment Chinese state media announced a novel coronavirus back in January, the whole world has been transfixed by news of Covid-19. News cycles that are almost exclusively focused on the virus have fed into the hands of dictators, who have not only used Covid as an excuse to clamp down on media freedoms, but also used it as a cover hoping people would be too distracted to speak up. Many stories that would otherwise have dominated headlines and angered the world have slipped through the cracks.
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