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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 3246533" data-attributes="member: 56035"><p>more from the intercepted podcast:</p><p></p><p></p><p>Reality Winner is right now being held, without bond, on charges of violating the Espionage Act. She could face decades in prison. In addition to this unjust denial of bail and the severity of the outrageous espionage charge against her and the potential prison sentence in this case, this is also an attack on journalism. L<strong>ike Barack Obama, Donald Trump only wants journalists to publish official leaks or official pronouncements. That’s not how real journalism works,</strong> and every news outlet should be standing against these attacks and against Reality Winner’s imprisonment.</p><p></p><p>The third issue: the U.S. government recently forced the television network RT to register as a foreign agent in the United States. RT has been accused by U.S. intelligence agencies, members of Congress, pundits of various political stripes of being a propaganda outlet for the Kremlin. RT has been cited as being part of an active coordinated misinformation campaign aimed at influencing the 2016 presidential election; they were cited in the U.S. intelligence community’s report.</p><p></p><p>Academics, journalists, politicians and others who have appeared on RT recently found their names publicly listed by an anti-Trump group, accusing them essentially of guilt by association.</p><p></p><p>The law that RT was forced to register under is the Foreign Agents Registration Act, which officially passed in 1938 and its aim was to stop the spread of Nazi propaganda.</p><p></p><p><strong>Senator Jeanne Shaheen:</strong> The need for this legislation is perhaps most clearly demonstrated by the case of Russian propaganda networks like RT America and Sputnik International.</p><p></p><p><strong>JS:</strong> The Committee to Protect Journalists, which is a very mainstream U.S. press freedom organization, they have come out against this move saying that it could set a dangerous precedent that could result in criminalizing individual journalists who work for RT.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 3246533, member: 56035"] more from the intercepted podcast: Reality Winner is right now being held, without bond, on charges of violating the Espionage Act. She could face decades in prison. In addition to this unjust denial of bail and the severity of the outrageous espionage charge against her and the potential prison sentence in this case, this is also an attack on journalism. L[B]ike Barack Obama, Donald Trump only wants journalists to publish official leaks or official pronouncements. That’s not how real journalism works,[/B] and every news outlet should be standing against these attacks and against Reality Winner’s imprisonment. The third issue: the U.S. government recently forced the television network RT to register as a foreign agent in the United States. RT has been accused by U.S. intelligence agencies, members of Congress, pundits of various political stripes of being a propaganda outlet for the Kremlin. RT has been cited as being part of an active coordinated misinformation campaign aimed at influencing the 2016 presidential election; they were cited in the U.S. intelligence community’s report. Academics, journalists, politicians and others who have appeared on RT recently found their names publicly listed by an anti-Trump group, accusing them essentially of guilt by association. The law that RT was forced to register under is the Foreign Agents Registration Act, which officially passed in 1938 and its aim was to stop the spread of Nazi propaganda. [B]Senator Jeanne Shaheen:[/B] The need for this legislation is perhaps most clearly demonstrated by the case of Russian propaganda networks like RT America and Sputnik International. [B]JS:[/B] The Committee to Protect Journalists, which is a very mainstream U.S. press freedom organization, they have come out against this move saying that it could set a dangerous precedent that could result in criminalizing individual journalists who work for RT. [/QUOTE]
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