😃 American journalist sentenced to 11 years prison w hard labor by Myanmar military court for spreading “false news”
(www.cnn.com)
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Reading this story makes me wonder what we are going to do about fake media in this country. We have freedom of speech, freedom of the press being a manifestation of that, which must be held in highest esteem, but we have seen such extreme real world destruction cuased by fake news, culminating in the whole media driven fear of covid cuasing worldwide shutdowns, that there is obvious infringement on others rights. Yet we can't just arrest reporters for saying stupid things we don't like, and how do we hold accountable those who deliberately misreported? Perhaps we can make news outlets put a statement on their reports that "portions of this piece may be editorial opinion" unless the outlet can show the piece to be based on rock solid good faith sources to the best of their knowledge. This would alert consumers that the piece may not be all true news, but opinion.
We are at war. The corporate media is disseminating propaganda on behalf of the enemy. Extrapolate from there.
It's a good point.
It's the whole point.
This editor, despite what CNN slathers on about "freedom of journalism" was arrested and tried for crimes unrelated to journalism, although he committed these crimes under the blanket of, and for the purpose of furthering, his "journalism".
He was found guilty of acting in concert with organizations deemed "terrorist" by the Myanmar military.
Read the Devolution Series if you haven't. I believe this very topic is covered in an earlyish episode re: assets of foreign powers during war.
Myanmar, on a whole, feels like the Advanced Copy of The Script.