There's been global rise in violence and legal pursuit of journalists. But as many of the issues outside the US get attention I've compiled material related to the US:
* The Obama Administration issued a secret surveillance operation against the Associated Press to break their sources [1]
* Journalists like Ibrahim Jassam [2], Laura Poitras [3], Glenn Greenwald [4], James Risen [5], many others are being prosecuted and persecuted
* States are heavily partnered with news media (e.g. Ken Dilanian [6], Judith Miller and Michael Gordon [7])
* Domestic news is manipulated by the state to achieve geopolitical goals (Zarqawi Psyop [8], Fallujah Psyop [9]) - this has recently been anonymously removed from Wikipedia: now [10] before [11]
* The state uses legal pressure to delay and suppress stories (e.g. Risen's NSA story 2004-05 [12])
* On key political issues controversial journalists are pulled (e.g. Ayman Mohyeldin [13])
* Journalism exclusion zones are used to corral media for purposes other than their safety - even at home where exclusion zones were used to stop coverage in Ferguson [14]
* Sources to journalists have had their lives and their families subjugated to death threats [15]
* The state reserves the right to imitate news media outlets [16]
* There is both historical [17] and current [18] use of international cables to manipulate the press
* The White House has been caught using fake journalists during press releases [19]
* The state has been caught buying coverage from journalists (e.g. Armstrong Williams [20], Gallagher and McManus [21])
* The US government has injected (hundreds of) unattributed fake news stories into local news channels by the US through the Office of Broadcasting Services on political issues [22]
* There is current legislation that would legally compel journalists to disclose their sources [23]
* The Army was caught in a scandal where they were sending fake letters from an imaginary soldier to media organizations [24]
* Hero stories are drummed up, attested to, and propelled by state officials when guests of the media (e.g. Jessica Lynch [25])
* Anti-propaganda law have been relaxed this year [26]
* Media outlets have been given evidence from coerced testimony on the grounds it is actionable, even when it is known to have been fabricated [27] [28]
* Propaganda intended for foreigners makes it to American audiences [29] and this has been used on purpose to circumvent anti-propaganda law [30]
* The government has a history of manipulating media and through the Cold War had over 800 American news networks and personel [31] (names you may know such as Austin Goodrich [32] and Frank Kearns [33])
* The United States hires [34] contractors [35] and has software [36] to manipulate social media [37]
* Agencies publish documents compelled of them by law at inconvenient times to discourage large press coverage [38]
* It is also true that the the now president and CEO of the Public Broadcasting Service Patricia Harrison testified before Congress that President Bush considered Office of Broadcasting Services (1/4 billion dollar) state sponsored propaganda powerful strategic tools for swaying public opinion [39]
* Kenneth Tomlinson (a chairman to the foreign media propaganda arm of the United States) was put in charge of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (NPR and PBS) and later retired after an internal investigation charged him with Ethics Violations for breaking the anti-propaganda law Public Broadcasting Act of 1967. Before leaving he handpicked State Department official Patricia Harrison to supersede him; Harrison has brought in Cheryl Halpern, Tim Isgitt, Mike Levy, Helen Mobley, and other State Department officials formerly in charge of US overseas propaganda efforts
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There's been a global rise in violence and legal pursuit of journalists so brits are apparently going to refuse to take responsibility and are going to point fingers at the US instead.
I was implying you are British, sorry for my mistake. It seemed like a macho British thing to do to try to deflect attention from this latest scandal by saying that the US is worse. (the UK is much worse).
My guess is that the UK is much worse than America based on their track record, history and handing of the Guardian documents. I don't live there or follow their politics as closely, so I don't have a list compiled for them.
It should also be said that there are many other countries that assuredly ARE worse than America with regard to the treatment of journalists. I have never been interested in 'lesser of two evil' false dilemmas, and don't find such comparisons very informative or important, but it should be said to make clear (if it was not) that this indictment of the Americas is similarly not a comparison with the British, with Egypt, with Belarus or anywhere else.
I would be very interested to see heavily sourced lists like this for modern day Britian (or essentially anywhere else).
The various accounts are a bit flippant of me. I tend to accumulate downvote brigades. After some time I'll notice that immediately after I post something (as in under 20 seconds) it will be downvoted several times or if a post has two digit 'karma' I will come back after some time with significantly less (though usually no new comments/discussion). In addition sometimes an account will "act oddly" - like refuse to update comments even when it is witnin the correction window or my HN tab in Chrome will be subject to regular crashes, requiring me to edit comments elsewhere and post them into HN for fear of losing edits.
Real or perceived, so far rotating accounts has seemed to deal with it fairly well. I also don't link credentials across machines (well, I try) - so you sometimes see two accounts active during the same week (never simultaneously posting however).
I've been thinking a lot about this rotation policy (solving the problem another way). Dunno.
So far as I know nobody has ever tried impersonating one.
What reason do you have for saying that the UK is much worse? The particular actions described in the article are not obviously things which the NSA would never do or hasn't done.
* The Obama Administration issued a secret surveillance operation against the Associated Press to break their sources [1]
* Journalists like Ibrahim Jassam [2], Laura Poitras [3], Glenn Greenwald [4], James Risen [5], many others are being prosecuted and persecuted
* States are heavily partnered with news media (e.g. Ken Dilanian [6], Judith Miller and Michael Gordon [7])
* Domestic news is manipulated by the state to achieve geopolitical goals (Zarqawi Psyop [8], Fallujah Psyop [9]) - this has recently been anonymously removed from Wikipedia: now [10] before [11]
* The state uses legal pressure to delay and suppress stories (e.g. Risen's NSA story 2004-05 [12])
* On key political issues controversial journalists are pulled (e.g. Ayman Mohyeldin [13])
* Journalism exclusion zones are used to corral media for purposes other than their safety - even at home where exclusion zones were used to stop coverage in Ferguson [14]
* Sources to journalists have had their lives and their families subjugated to death threats [15]
* The state reserves the right to imitate news media outlets [16]
* There is both historical [17] and current [18] use of international cables to manipulate the press
* The White House has been caught using fake journalists during press releases [19]
* The state has been caught buying coverage from journalists (e.g. Armstrong Williams [20], Gallagher and McManus [21])
* The US government has injected (hundreds of) unattributed fake news stories into local news channels by the US through the Office of Broadcasting Services on political issues [22]
* There is current legislation that would legally compel journalists to disclose their sources [23]
* The Army was caught in a scandal where they were sending fake letters from an imaginary soldier to media organizations [24]
* Hero stories are drummed up, attested to, and propelled by state officials when guests of the media (e.g. Jessica Lynch [25])
* Anti-propaganda law have been relaxed this year [26]
* Media outlets have been given evidence from coerced testimony on the grounds it is actionable, even when it is known to have been fabricated [27] [28]
* Propaganda intended for foreigners makes it to American audiences [29] and this has been used on purpose to circumvent anti-propaganda law [30]
* The government has a history of manipulating media and through the Cold War had over 800 American news networks and personel [31] (names you may know such as Austin Goodrich [32] and Frank Kearns [33])
* The United States hires [34] contractors [35] and has software [36] to manipulate social media [37]
* Agencies publish documents compelled of them by law at inconvenient times to discourage large press coverage [38]
* It is also true that the the now president and CEO of the Public Broadcasting Service Patricia Harrison testified before Congress that President Bush considered Office of Broadcasting Services (1/4 billion dollar) state sponsored propaganda powerful strategic tools for swaying public opinion [39]