CNN to Stop Broadcasting in Russia After Censorship Law Passes
Source: Hollywood Reporter
CNN says it will stop broadcasting within Russia after the countrys national parliament, the Duma, passed a new law Friday that will make it a criminal act to call the war in Ukraine a war.
CNN will stop broadcasting in Russia while we continue to evaluate the situation and our next steps moving forward, a CNN spokesperson tells The Hollywood Reporter.
As of Friday morning CNN had three correspondents reporting from Russia, in addition to the staff in its Moscow bureau. Though if CNN is not available to be viewed in the country, the reporting may not run afoul of the law, which has penalties of up to 15 years in prison for the distribution of false news about military operations in Ukraine.
Earlier, the BBC pulled its reporters from the country in the wake of the legislation passing.
This legislation appears to criminalize the the process of independent journalist, wrote BBC director-general Tim Davie announcing the decision. It leaves us no other option than to temporarily suspend the work of all BBC News journalists and their support staff within the Russian Federation while we assess the full implications of this unwelcome development.
Bloomberg News took a similar step, with editor-in-chief John Micklethwait writing in a note to staff that we have with great regret decided to temporarily suspend our news gathering inside Russia. The change to the criminal code, which seems designed to turn any independent reporter into a criminal purely by association, makes it impossible to continue any semblance of normal journalism inside the country.
Read more: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/cnn-stops-broadcasting-in-russia-1235104711/
C_U_L8R
(44,897 posts)Seriously though, the Russian people need to see each other standing up to their dictator
vlyons
(10,252 posts)Isn't 1984 exactly the perfect book to have on high school libraries and taught in English and Social Studies classes right now??
Harker
(13,880 posts)gab13by13
(20,867 posts)except the fascist GQP won't just ship non-conformists off to some distant continent, they will kill or imprison them. Trump or his clone if elected will do a Pinocet-style takeover.
HUAJIAO
(2,362 posts)and the presidency in 2024.
GOTV.
AND we need some great PR, ads, communication.....
Scalded Nun
(1,231 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,632 posts)Scalded Nun
(1,231 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Did Trump cancel them ?
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)Warpy
(110,913 posts)probably under orders from his good buddy Vlad, another crime he should be charded with but probably won't be.
Ah, here it is: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/959668349
Fortunately they seem to have recovered under a sane administration.
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)Trump put his henchmen all over the place - Im so glad we now have experts committed to fulfilling the mission of providing news to those behind the new iron curtain now.
Gore1FL
(21,034 posts)As Russia is trying to cut off the flow of information in Ukraine by attacking its communications infrastructure, the British news outlet BBC is revisiting a broadcasting tactic popularized during World War II: shortwave radio.
The BBC said this week that it would use radio frequencies that can travel for long distances and be accessible on portable radios to broadcast its World Service news in English for four hours a day in Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, and in parts of Russia.
More at the link.
FarPoint
(12,209 posts)I sense Fox Noise with Tucker's propaganda report will all continue????
Mike Nelson
(9,903 posts)... this article makes it seem like CNN was seen in Russia... and, I think the sentence, "Though if CNN is not available to be viewed in the country, the reporting may not run afoul of the law, which..." is awkward.
calimary
(80,699 posts)Got to be some way. Even partially.