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In Defence of Press Freedom in Africa: An Essay / Tatah Mentan



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Autore: Mentan Tatah <1948-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: In Defence of Press Freedom in Africa: An Essay / Tatah Mentan Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Baltimore, Maryland : , : Project Muse, , 2015
Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2015
©2015
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (96 p.)
Disciplina: 323.445096
Soggetto topico: Government and the press - Africa
Censorship - Africa
Press and politics - Africa
Freedom of the press - Africa
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (page 57).
Nota di contenuto: Foreword -- Preface -- Principles of journalism -- African political systems -- Propaganda and censorship -- A statement of concern -- 1. The media context -- 2. Why does freedom of the press matter? -- 3. Patterns of repression -- 4. Whose failures? -- 5. Conclusion : press censorship and social equilibrium -- Appendix. My final statement of shared purpose.
Sommario/riassunto: When Africa stumbled into independence in the 1960's, the blossoming of newspapers of nearly every political persuasion was widely hailed as a critical stepping stone toward true multiparty democracy. However, rather than marking a clean break with an authoritarian past, the era of multiparty politics in Africa has been a time of increased hardship and repression for journalists who dare criticize powerful incumbents. Media repression continues to rise. After decades of retreat, authoritarian regimes are using social media and other sophisticated systems in a new era of repression to thwart democracy and trample human rights. For consecutive decades, the state of freedom has declined - more people in more places face more repression. While systemic torture in war-torn Somalia and the return of a military dictatorship in Egypt captured headlines, there is also widespread, insidious and 21st-century style surveillance elsewhere with abuse or imprisonment or both of political activists. For the media to play its role as priests of democracy, Tatah Mentan maintains that media freedom must be rigorously defended as integral to the democratic way of life.
Titolo autorizzato: In Defence of Press Freedom in Africa: An Essay  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 9956-762-06-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910797798803321
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