#media-censorship

#media-censorship

The government currently ruling Russia has been understandably criticized for its attacks on LGBTQ+ rights. That hostility - homophobia as official government policy - is one of many reasons why the U.S. State Depaertment advises against visiting Russia. And while the country's government is engaged in actively repressing sexuality, there's plenty of evidence that a significant number of Russians are turning in to Heated Rivalry - albeit through unofficial means.

Public records of the charges didn't list the content that the streaming services, which include Kinopoisk, Wink, Ivi, Amediteka, 24TV, Digital Television and Beeline TV, are accused of sharing on their platforms, as reported by The Moscow Times. The publication added that reporting from Mediazona noted several of the companies had been previously fined for streaming content that was described by Russian authorities as promoting "non-traditional" relationships and lifestyles.

➡️ The University of Oklahoma graduate assistant who gave a student a failing grade on an anti-transgender paper will no longer be teaching at the university, school officials have decided. We also examine the 60 Minutes CECOT story that was spiked at the last minute by CBS News editor Bari Weiss, only to be broadcast anyway on a Canadian streaming service; and we have an explainer on the infamous prison where Trump deported 252 Venezuelan refugees.

A reporter at the San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain asked Hollywood star Angelina Jolie about challenges to free expression, an unspoken nod to President Donald Trump's crackdown on the media. The media world was shaken last Wednesday night by the news that ABC had suspended Kimmel's show indefinitely (he has since been reinstated) just hours after he was targeted by Brendan Carr, President Trump's hand-picked FCC commissioner.

StudentNation is made possible through generous funding from The Puffin Foundation. If you're a student and you have an article idea, please send pitches and questions to [email protected].In theory, weather reports should be neutral communications, free from ideological bias or political pressure. In practice, public broadcasting now faces severe federal funding cuts amid a crackdown on independent media and free speech; the terms "climate crisis" and "climate science" are being purged from government documents; and numerous meteorologists have received threats simply for explaining climate science.

BILL MAHER: I know why you're happy tonight. I'm still on. Oh, my God. Man, talk show hosts are going down like Blockbusters in the 90s. I mean, it's, whew. Well, I guess you all heard Jimmy Kimmel, my friend, my compatriot. He's canned by ABC for comments he made about Charlie Kirk's assassin. The day, right after the FCC guy came, head of the FCC, said he was going to revoke ABC's license. Let me just tell you something.

Some viewers accused Kimmel of erroneously suggesting that Kirk's alleged shooter was MAGA, which Brendan Carr, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, called "some of the sickest conduct possible." Hours before the suspension was announced, Carr raised the idea of punishing local television stations that continued to air Kimmel's show. "We can do this the easy way or the hard way," he said.

Funny or not, these became the grounds for deciding which narratives were state doxa and which would fall under the umbrella of the "woke mind virus" or whatever term talking heads felt like using to dismiss thoughts that fell out of line. The thought must have been that these were brief detours on a moral arc that bends toward justice or that free speech and the circulation of ideas would ultimately be the disinfectant best suited for a nation dirtied by misinformation, propaganda and fake news.