Coronavirus pandemic having serious impact on press freedom worldwide as authoritarian leaders take advantage of the public health crisis, new report says.
, compiled by the NGO Reporters Without Borders , warned that the next 10 years would be pivotal for the future of journalism across the globe.
“The public health crisis provides authoritarian governments with an opportunity to implement the notorious “shock doctrine” – to take advantage of the fact that politics are on hold, the public is stunned and protests are out of the question, in order to impose measures that would be impossible in normal times,” Chrisophe Deloire, the secretary-general of RSF, said in a statement.
RSF said that there was a “clear correlation” between the suppression of independent media in the pandemic and a country’s ranking in the Index.Police arrest a woman after she was told several times to disperse from a gathering of protestors calling on Governor Roy Cooper to re-open North Carolina, amid concerns of the economic fallout from his stay at home order due to the COVID-19 virus, Tuesday, April 14, 2020, in Raleigh, N.C. Protestors gathered at the corner of N.
Police arrest a woman after she was told several times to disperse from a gathering of protestors calling on Governor Roy Cooper to re-open North Carolina, amid concerns of the economic fallout from his stay at home order due to the COVID-19 virus, Tuesday, April 14, 2020, in Raleigh, N.C. Protestors gathered at the corner of N. Wilmington and Jones Street for nearly two hours before being ordered to disperse.
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