Reporters Without Borders

In recent years, media has gone from being used for social, political and regime changes to influencing the world and its electoral process at a global level. Due to the better connectivity of electricity and the reduced cost of internet & smart phones, citizens can connect with not only their friends and family but the world too. This leads to quite a big change in the way relations are formed and maintained (Lewis, 2014 as cited in Madar, 2017). Online media such as twitter, facebook, youtube,

Donald Trump was assumed to be the guy who would fix everything in Washington, but after two months in office he’s proving to be a terrible leader. Trump was never very popular, but he got ranked for his leadership, but that’s slowly fading now. In November just after the election, 56% of Americans thought he was a good leader — now it’s fallen to just 40%. After two months, here’s what is know: He’s not going to fix everything, he’s not going to drain the swamp, he’s not going to make America great

What would you do in order to protect yourself, your family, and your country? How would you feel if you lost a loved one through a tragedy that could have been prevented? Throughout history, the necessity of witch-hunts has been questioned; to answer this question, we must ask ourselves how these hunts have kept us safe. In The Crucible, Arthur Miller describes the “perverse manifestations of panic” in Salem, MA, as Puritans accuse their neighbors of practicing witchcraft (Miller 5). Miller sarcastically

prosper. Long before Felipe Calderon took office, the drug trade thrived without much opposition for the government. However, in 2006, Calderon mobilized troops to combat drug traffickers, thus sparking what is now known as the Mexican drug war("Mexico"). The ongoing war has had devastating consequences for both sides, with a total of 106,000 lives lost("Mexico"). Among these lives, numerous atrocities against independent reporters and children have been committed, yet the war continues to rage on. Currently

great. They can be in the middle of a warzone or just be the target of those looking to silence those speaking out against them. One such example is Mexican journalists who were killed by criminals. “Crime reporter Armando Rodríguez Carreón was gunned down in his driveway in the Mexican border city of Juárez

attacks which led to changes in the world. Political reforms had been constructed to prevent any future terrorist attack from, occurring in the future. Attitudes towards Muslims had also significantly changed after 9-11 as racial profiling occurs in US borders as well a rise in hate crimes. Media organizations misrepresents the religion as a dangerous and radicalism religion. As has been noted all these changes toward the Islamic group are coming in a short amount of time, it had encouraged many to question

The media and the internet in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is highly censored by the government, which is controlled by the Communist Party, mainly for political reasons. China is ranked 176 out of 180 countries on the Reporters without Borders Press Freedom Index, citing that China is “World’s leading prison for citizen journalists.” Censored media includes, but is not limited to, print media, film, radio, and the internet. For example, any broadcast or mention of the match between Google’s

After Jerusalem, Stack was posted in Baghdad, Iraq during the heart of the American invasion. Bodies and the smell of death filled the city. Once Saddam Hussein had vanished, Shiites fled to Baghdad “Every Shiite wanted a taste of a pilgrimage that had been outlawed under Saddam,” Stack wrote (64), “so they walked those country roads, roaring out all that had been suppressed.” During this time, there was also an expectation that Shiites would align themselves with the US after they were free from

country of Cambodia to relieve their state of neutrality and stand as an anti-Communist force (Williams et al. 284). Breaking the neutrality of Cambodia, would allow America to conduct legal military action against Viet Cong forces residing on the borders of Cambodia. If Cambodia were to continue its state of neutrality, then the neighboring communist forces of North Vietnam would be able to illegally support themselves via neutral Cambodian land; a land that cannot be touched by the U.S. military

German military successes in the spring of 1940 saw the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), along with French and Belgian troops, surrounded at the beaches of Dunkirk. With the possibility of a breakout impossible, the defeated armies were eventually evacuated to the British Isles during Operation Dynamo. While the withdrawal of British Forces from Continental Europe marked a military defeat of the BEF, news media surrounding the event showed a story opposite to this. Rather, the Dunkirk evacuation