I have worked as a foreign correspondent in Russia, the Middle East and North Africa where every country without exception has become a more restrictive and dangerous place to report than it used to be ✒️ Patrick Cockburn for ipaperviews
, the report shows how control of the media has become an ever more vital precondition for dictatorial regimes to stay in power.
Draconian punishment of critics and a direct or indirect grip on media outlets are supplemented by sophisticated state propaganda offensives. The media are always a weapon in somebody’s hands, but governments will always fight to make sure that those hands are their own.Gas emanating from a leak in the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea in September 2022
But what was unexpected was the speed and completeness with which Western media dropped normal standards of objectivity and portrayed the war as a simple conflict between white hats and black hats, angels and demons. One such story cropped up last week concerning the identity of whoever blew up, last September, the Nord Stream 2 undersea pipelines that carried Russian gas exports beneath the Baltic to Germany. I cannot think of any reason why the Russians should have blown it up themselves, but there was the BBC promoting a second-hand story that they had done precisely that.
Every so often I see a sterile debate on how far away are we from Irish unity and an end to partition. Quite a long way in my estimatewill not be enough to push the million-strong Protestant community into a united Ireland, even supposing they want to. Many expressed surprise at this since not so long ago, any Irish Republican seeking to get in close proximity to a member of the Royal Family would have been suspected of lethal intentions.
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