The infringements on press freedoms sound pretty real.
From the reporting that I see from Ukraine it’s not actually an issue. Journalists (that aren’t right-out Russian agents) aren’t told what to write, or to not be critical, or to not ask tough questions, but to put reporting about military things on time-release and blur others. You don’t want pictures out there that would allow the Russians to locate command centres and such.
Oh yes and you can’t condone the invasion. Newsflash: Condoning crimes is a crime pretty much anywhere also in peace times, and believe it or not it’s not legal to wage wars of aggression.
Another critical tool in the bully’s toolbelt is to whine that the attacked person is being way unreasonable in how they’re conducting themselves, in the defense.
And I am sure that it is pure coincidence that whatever press-freedom incidents are being played up and spun out as the corruption and hostility to democracy of the current Ukranian government, in consistently dishonestly half-true ways from any number of various scattered sources.
From the reporting that I see from Ukraine it’s not actually an issue. Journalists (that aren’t right-out Russian agents) aren’t told what to write, or to not be critical, or to not ask tough questions, but to put reporting about military things on time-release and blur others. You don’t want pictures out there that would allow the Russians to locate command centres and such.
Oh yes and you can’t condone the invasion. Newsflash: Condoning crimes is a crime pretty much anywhere also in peace times, and believe it or not it’s not legal to wage wars of aggression.
Another critical tool in the bully’s toolbelt is to whine that the attacked person is being way unreasonable in how they’re conducting themselves, in the defense.
And I am sure that it is pure coincidence that whatever press-freedom incidents are being played up and spun out as the corruption and hostility to democracy of the current Ukranian government, in consistently dishonestly half-true ways from any number of various scattered sources.