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The new censorship and your right to know: UnSpun Journal Club

Podcast: Unspun · Amanda Sturgill

Opublikowano: 2026-09-22

What happens when censorship stops looking like censorship? In this episode of UnSpun journal club, DrSturg looks at the book The New Censorship: How the War on the Media Is Taking Us Down, which looks at how populist authoritains harm journalism without controlling the press by using society's norms against it. These leaders are all over the world, but have in common a view of a society splot between “the people” and “the elites.” Journalists who don't support the leader are the enemy. The core freedom isn't freedom of speech. It is whether the public still has a meaningf...