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Western joke: Two large news agencies banned from international conference on media freedom
Western joke: Two large news agencies banned from international conference on media freedom
10/7/19
The
Kremlin said on Tuesday it regretted that Russia’s RT and Sputnik news
organizations were barred from taking part in a global conference on media
freedom in London, calling the decision absurd.
Britain
said Monday it has barred Russia’s RT and Sputnik news organizations from a
global conference on media freedom in London because of their “active role in
spreading disinformation.
Some
60 ministers and 1,000 journalists and members of civil society are expected to
attend the meeting, co-hosted with Canada, on Wednesday and Thursday.
“There
can be no conference about the freedom of the press when journalists are barred
from taking part in it,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists.
He
mocked what he called “the absurdity of what is happening.”
“We can only regret this,” he added.
“We can only regret this,” he added.
The
Russian Embassy in London previously condemned the decision relating to RT as
“direct politically-motivated discrimination” and said it had complained to the
Foreign Office.
RT
said in a statement that “it takes a particular brand of hypocrisy to advocate
for freedom of press while banning inconvenient voices and slandering
alternative media.”
In
December last year, British media regulator Ofcom found RT had broken
impartiality rules in several programs broadcast after the nerve agent attack
in the city of Salisbury.
Moscow
has denied claims by London that it approved the attack on former Russian
double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in March last year.
In
particular, delegations are not allowed to work on the conferee’s final
document as "it is being drafted secretly by a limited group of
states". Despite having invited Russian diplomats to the conference, the
Foreign Office "failed to invite Embassy representatives to a dedicated
briefing for the diplomatic corps – ‘for technical reasons'" it added./.
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All comments [ 8 ]
It takes a particular brand of hypocrisy to advocate for freedom of press while banning inconvenient voices and slandering alternative media.
There can be no conference about the freedom of the press when journalists are barred from taking part in it.
And that's what they call Western democracy!
What better illustration of the real situation with media freedom in the UK does one need? Yet the organizers of the Conference, as far as we understand, wish to discuss the situation with media freedom anywhere in the world, but not in this country.
They’ve blocked Sputnik from participation in the conference on freedom of speech. Freedom of speech, my ass!
Salt of joke: Correspondents from foreign countries were called to come to England and tell about the restriction of press freedom in their countries.
There's no absolute freedom of press in any country!
So ridiculous that they call Western press is the most free in the world. They banned others for what they have also usually done.
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