“Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and inconvenient facts kept dark, without the need for any official ban. Anyone who has lived long in a foreign country will know of instances of sensational items of news — things which on their own merits would get the big headlines-being kept right out of the British press, not because the Government intervened but because of a general tacit agreement that ‘it wouldn’t do’ to mention that particular fact. So far as the daily newspapers go, this is easy to understand.
The British press is extremely centralised, and most of it is owned by wealthy men who have every motive to be dishonest on certain important topics. But the same kind of veiled censorship also operates in books and periodicals, as well as in plays, films and radio. At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.
It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is ‘not done’ to say it, just as in mid-Victorian times it was ‘not done’ to mention trousers in the presence of a lady.
Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the highbrow periodicals.” ― George Orwell, Animal Farm
Weblinks
Alternative news/satire
- Morning Star https://morningstaronline.co.uk/
- Caitlin Johnstone https://caitlinjohnstone.com/
- The Grayzone https://thegrayzone.com/
- The Skwarkbox https://skwawkbox.org/
- Double Down News https://www.doubledown.news/
- The Daily Squib http://www.dailysquib.co.uk/
- Anorak http://www.anorak.co.uk/
- Counter Punch http://www.counterpunch.org/
- The Daily Beast http://www.thedailybeast.com/
- Wikileaks http://wikileaks.org/
- The Word http://thewordmedia.org/
- Dorset Eye https://dorseteye.com/
- Vox Political https://voxpoliticalonline.com/
- The Canary https://www.thecanary.co/
- THE ELECTRONIC INTIFADA
- The Prole Star https://www.prole-star.co.uk/
“You can’t pick and choose which types of freedom you want to defend. You must defend all of it or be against all of it.” ― Scott Howard Phillips
Blogs & campaign groups
- Counterfire https://www.counterfire.org/
- The Drudge Report http://www.drudgereport.com/
- Buzz Machine http://www.buzzmachine.com/
- Guido Fawkes http://order-order.com/
- Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
- Vice https://www.vice.com/
“Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose” ― George Orwell
Citizen Journalism
- The Latest https://www.the-latest.com/
- Center for Citizen Media http://citmedia.org/blog/
- Source Watch http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=SourceWatch
Citizen journalism networking Culture
- Chronicle World http://chronicleworld.wordpress.com/
- Black Agenda Report http://www.blackagendareport.com/
- Asian Times http://www.asiantimesonline.co.uk/
- Ted.com http://www.ted.com/
Foreign News
- Middle East Eye https://www.middleeasteye.net/
- Der spiegel https://www.spiegel.de/international/
- Pravda http://english.pravda.ru/
- The Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/
- China Daily http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/
- The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/
- African News Agency http://www.afrol.com/
- Russia Today http://rt.com/
- DW News https://www.dw.com/
“Fascism thrives in obscurity and darkness.” ― DaShanne Stokes
Media
- Journalism.co.uk http://www.journalism.co.uk
- Press Gazette http://www.pressgazette.co.uk
- Media Lens http://www.medialens.org Challenge to media orthodoxies
- The Centre for Investigative Journalism http://www.tcij.org
- WhatDoTheyKnow http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/ Make and explore UK Freedom of Information enquiries
News
- Sky News http://news.sky.com/skynews/UK-News
- Channel 4 News http://www.channel4.com/news/
- CNN http://www.cnn.com
- Aljazeera http://english.aljazeera.net/
- Press TV http://www.presstv.ir/
- WND http://www.WND.com
- The Daily Callerhttp://dailycaller.com
“Freedom of speech is unnecessary if the people to whom it is granted do not think for themselves.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Non-governmental organisations/campaign groups
- Open Democracy https://www.opendemocracy.net/
- Committee to Protect Journalists – Press Freedom Online http://www.cpj.org/
- Index on Censorship http://www.indexoncensorship.org/
- Tax Justice Net https://www.taxjustice.net/
- Global Voices Online http://globalvoicesonline.org/
- World Development Movement http://www.wdm.org.uk/
- War On Want http://www.waronwant.org/
- Avaaz http://www.avaaz.org/en/ Global civic action group
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