World Press Freedom Day, salute the journalist who dares to speak the truth!

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A report by the "Society for the protection of journalists", a us-based media watchdog, reports that journalists are now facing increasing risks, especially in foreign correspondents. Over the past few years there have been numerous incidents of journalists being targeted for attacks or abductions for their professional status. 70% of dead journalists were killed because of their work, and 85% of these events could never be justly served.
May 3 is World Press Freedom Day, on which people all over the world are told that the violation of the right to freedom of expression persists; they are reminded that there are many journalists who have been jailed or even heroically sacrificed for providing daily news.
World Press Freedom Day makes the world revisit the importance of protecting the fundamental right to freedom of expression and freedom of the press, as set out in article 19th of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Without these rights, democracy and development cannot be achieved. Independent, free and pluralistic media can ensure transparency and accountability, promote social participation and the rule of law and contribute to the eradication of poverty, thus playing a vital role in the good governance of a democratic society. The "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" has been in existence for more than 60 years, and China's own Constitution and the Convention on Human Rights in the world are all impressively written about freedom of the press and freedom of speech, but the difference in the freedom of the press in China is evident in the world. The human rights group assessed the extent of press freedom in 195 countries around the world, 70 had freedom of the press and 61 were partially free, while China ranked 64 news-free countries. Not so, China ranked 8th in the world's 10 blog-free countries, with Cuba, North Korea, Burma and other countries to receive this "honor." With the development of the Internet, blog writing growth, according to statistics, now because of the news is not free to be detained by people arrested, bloggers accounted for 45%. The recent case of Henan Shuai, Inner Mongolia Wu Baoquan case, Sichuan Deng Yonggu case, Hubei Peng Yong case (http://www.tianya.cn/publicforum/content/free/1/1546975.shtml), All because of the corruption of the local government, and the people to fight for profits and was framed to prison. These cases, of course, have the same similarities, but basically there is no false defamation of the government, and are absurd to the government as a criticism, absurd to be a personality subject, absurd to no party to prosecute (the fundamental element of libel is not to sue), the procuratorial organs have to take charge of prosecution, Act as an official pawn.
The western commonly known as the news media is the fourth kind of power, plays the judicial, the administrative, the legislative Ding and three national operation mechanism, the indispensable supervision function. The core of press freedom is free competition, independent objectivity and freedom of speech. At this three o'clock, the freedom of the press will become the mirror of the Moon, water flowers. Today China is full of official media (even the relatively market-oriented media is also a government battalion), the news homogenization, uniform, extremely serious, for news events only a soundThere is only one angle, but also advocate the melody (master's Melody), this is not likely to bring true news competition. As a whole, the media in China is party-produced, and the propaganda department greets and sends instructions to the media almost every day before it is published, so as to kill the truth and talk about independence and objectivity. No freedom of speech, such as the restricted human search in Xuzhou (I am not opposed to protecting the privacy of ordinary people, but the human flesh search for officials, in the case of infringement of their privacy rights, should try to protect the people with all means to search the truth of the right, such as Hangzhou post blog real-name, prohibit malicious comments, Even officials, the highest axis ban on "Wei Guang Zheng" of the spoof, are full of restrictions on freedom of speech. Without such freedom of speech as the beginning of freedom, press freedom and other freedoms are only nouns written on paper.
We salute the journalists who dare to tell the truth!

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