Who holds government accountable now? We cross these lines. We sound the alert.
There are now people in power who see journalism as a threat.
Freedom of the press starts at the local level.
It is violence, fear, and lies.
We don't have the luxury to lose our freedom. What are you gonna stand for? What is the line that you want across?
The Philippines is a cautionary tale for the United States.
[New anchor] "Duterte is an authoritarian leader accused
of a variety of human rights abuses..."
[News anchor] "Duterte pledged that he would kill a hundred thousand Filipinos"
When people don't know what is real and what is fake the voice with the loudest megaphone gains more power
There's no precedence for what the government is doing. You just have no idea where it will go
[New anchor] "Mainstream media in Vietnam is
monopolized by the state. A number of bloggers being sentenced to very long [...] Nguyen has been held after exposing a toxic waste"
[News anchor] "A court in Myanmar sentenced two warders journalists sentenced to seven years in prison"
[News anchor] "A journalist said they were framed because of their reporting of a massacre of Rohingya people"
[News anchor] "The problem goes beyond censorship... China's massive surveillance..."
[Politician] "I'm a position to prohibit this operation."
[News anchor] "Where is he? What's happened to him?"
"Her husband has been detained in the northwestern part of the country"
If one takes the definition of news as something that someone wants to suppress,
by definition journalists will be going to stay in the interests of the powerful.
[News anchor] "More protests are happening in Sudan...
seven detained journalists"
Institutions rule of law. We lost all of these things Sudan is a country without laws. You are not a citizen you are nothing
[News anchor] "Democrats and Republicans alike have been criticizing
President Trump after he refused to punish Saudi Arabia of the murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi"
[Trump] "We're not going to give up hundreds of billions of dollars in orders"
[Senator] "You have to be willfully blind not to come to the conclusion. The crown prince is a wrecking ball.
I think he's complicit in the murder of Mr. Khashoggi"
We've all learned in our schools that the journalists shouldn't be the story itself
My government didn't like the story they put me in jail. I was attacked and I'm in exile now.
The story is not written by myself.
[News anchor] "Tatiana Falcon Hauer stabbed in the neck by an assailant who breached station security and attacked her"
It's hard but if you feel that you cannot be anyone else, be brave and be honest.
[News anchor] "Here's the moment Arkady Babchenko returned from the dead.
Well that is the journalists who it was reported had been shot dead"
[New anchor] "Around 10,000 Hungarians have protested in Budapest against government control of the media. Critics fear
it's a sign the country is slipping into authoritarianism."
Bad situation in Venezuela. Getting a whole lot worse
Deadly protests riddled the streets this summer after President Maduro rewrote the country's constitution and ban the main opposition party
[News anchor] "Mexico is the most dangerous country in Latin America..."
[Trump] "The news doesn't tell the truth"
[News anchor] "Explosive devices were discovered in multiple locations"
[News anchors arguing] "We might have heard in the background. We're gonna find out what the latest..."
I hate being the story.
Just do. [News anchor] "...there's been a shooting at a newspaper building in Annapolis America"
...That put us closer to the rest of the world in a way that is horrifying, but eye opening.
It's the series of small decisions that, in the end, bends and breaks the rule of law.
When I am disappointed or pessimistic I always go to my library and read history books
Democracy and freedom of the press - they are fragile, but in the end they will prevail