freedom of the press

How India’s Modi has extended Hindu nationalist sway over the country’s media

By Kalpana Jain — June 7, 2023
(RNS) — The increasingly authoritarian Modi government’s latest proposal is a fact checking unit that will strike social media content deemed ‘fake or misleading,’ causing fears that the scope of government censorship on news organizations is expanding.

Liberty U’s Falwell ‘censors’ student newspaper coverage of event organized by critics

By Jack Jenkins — April 7, 2018
LYNCHBURG, Va. (RNS) — The two-day event off campus drew speakers Shane Claiborne, the Rev. William Barber and others critical of university President Jerry Falwell Jr.'s support of President Trump.

COMMENTARY: Power elites are waging war on the foundations of democracy

By Tom Ehrich — June 3, 2014
(RNS) This pervasive agenda isn't just about winning elections. It is about ushering in a new era of division and repression, in which American citizens fundamentally distrust and loathe each other and thus are easily manipulated.
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