Human Rights Watch (HRW) slammed the renewed red-tagging of journalists perpetrated by a show aired at Kingdom of Jesus Christ pastor Apollo Quiboloy’s television station, Sonshine Media Network, Inc. (SMNI).
USAID, which has a long history of fostering the growth of independent media across the world, plans to work with Congress to contribute up to $9 million in seed funding for this groundbreaking new program to support media outside the United States.
Let us defend press freedom and democracy. A sustainable and healthy democracy depends on a free press.
This manipulation and exploitation of our legal system has got to stop. Power to abuse is the very essence of abuse of power. The Constitution is not a piece of clay that one can shape or bend to follow an official’s sinister purpose.
In this digital age where disinformation is easily spread, these small radio stations, which do not have legislative franchises, could become the next potential threat to journalism.