😃 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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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.