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Shooting the Messenger: Criminalising Journalism (The Criminalization of Political Dissent) by Andrew John Fowler is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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"If the Al-Qaeda terrorists who attacked the United States in 2001 wanted to weaken the West, they achieved their mission by striking a blow at the heart of democracy. Since 9/11 governments including those of the USA, the UK, France and Australia have introduced tough, intimidating legislation to discourage the legitimate activities of a probing press, so greatly needed after the Iraq War proved that executive government could not be trusted. Often hiding behind arguments about defending national security and fighting the war on terror, governments criminalised legitimate journalistic work, ramping up their attacks on journalists' sources, and the whistle-blowers who are so essential in keeping governments honest. Through detailed research and analysis, this book, which includes interviews with leading figures in the field, including Edward Snowden, explains how mass surveillance and anti-terror laws are of questionable value in defeating terrorism, but have had a `chilling effect' on one of the foundations of democracy: revelatory journalism."--Page 4 de la couverture

Who reads Shooting the Messenger: Criminalising Journalism (The Criminalization of Political Dissent)?

Author

Andrew John Fowler

Publisher

Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781315099927

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Political Science, Literary Fiction