associated with different political parties you know we always in what happens with the big national parties the congress and the region have really actively made afterwards. that what's up has become really really crucial but only crucial in a particular context and that context is a mainstream media which does not always do the job that it should be doing partly through fear partly through pressure and partly through political allegiance and so if we had a few fake stories making it through mainstream media then the role the quartet played would be far less it isn't just that one exists as a parallel universe to the other and to symbiotic relationship. with discussing other media stories that are on our radar this week with one of our producers meenakshi rafi mean a facebook all over the news once again

a committee of the british parliament describing the company as digital gangsters nigerians with an election coming seeing all kinds of misleading ads popping up on the site and facebook has suspended the pages of some widely followed media outlets who are they and why. the suspension of these pages is a big deal richard there are four in total but the two most popular and we're talking about millions of followers here are in the now and soap box now many of our viewers will have seen videos posted by these guys it's kind of first content that's smart sharp and takes a very strong line against certain american policies both domestic and foreign that this past week c.n.n. put out a report saying that the kremlin was quote backing a viral video company aimed at american millennialists and the videos have been viewed tens of millions of times but what people watching these videos may not realize is that the russian government is paying for this the company running these

pages is called media and indeed it is funded by the russian state but that's not exactly breaking news it's been reported before but after that c.n.n. report aired facebook suspended the pages even though matic media hadn't actually violated any rules facebook does not require outlets to disclose their funding on their pages but they said they took them down so that people won't be misled about who's behind them we spoke with maverick media's chief operating officer he says no one was informed before the suspension happened but according to him that's not even the issue. their issue is that facebook needs to issue very clear protocols and policies for what the requirements are and pages disclosing funding sources for both government backed media sources as well as commercial media sources i think that c.n.n. has created another thread age in a week full of headaches or

a facebook that creates pressure on them to articulate a policy that's far larger and more complicated to coordinate and organize now and it is to simply single out russia and single out in the now and other state sponsored media and. i hope that they will do that and we can probably say rules that everyone else has to draw now he seems to make a valid point take you too for example which is owned by google recent policy change there and now whenever material from a state funded media outlet is posted there it is disclosed so when material from al-jazeera is posted you see this line underneath about a qatari funded media outlet b.b.c. material is described as coming from public broadcaster in the u.k. but that's not the case on facebook is it no it isn't and the way facebook has gone

about this suggests a whole host of news outlets could get kicked off the site it could be china c g t n it could be the b.b.c. it could be alleges eda facebook is under pressure on various issues and this development is not reassuring it's max of the same old problems a lack of transparency and a kind of approach that's both ad hoc and selective back to c.n.n. quickly there are issues there over the hiring of a new political editor was that well c.n.n. is getting up for the twenty twenty lection and its latest hire a woman name said it has many people seriously concerned she's a republican operative who was most recently a spokesperson for trump's attorney general now we've seen c.n.n. hiding time spokespeople before but only as paid contributors as a political editor would be shaping coverage and editing other people's work but she has zero journalistic experience and her twitter feed says it all she's tweeted lies about president obama justified the so-called muslim ban with baseless arguments and here's a tweet c.n.n.

should have found troubling she used to call the network the clinton news network one ok thanks mina. the challenges for journalists covering conflict zones are well documented however uncovering difficult truths in post conflict situations can also be a risky business northern ireland in a period known as the troubles thirty years of sectarian violence that ended with the good friday agreement of one thousand nine hundred ninety eight is our case in point on one side were republicans principally the irish republican army the ira a militant group drawn from the catholic community that targeted civilians british soldiers and the state that they served on the other side of those who called themselves loyalists most of the protestants loyal to the united kingdom with their own paramilitary groups during that period journalists in britain and ireland faced censorship although the fighting ended long ago just last year two documentary makers were arrested over a film they made alleging that the british government was complicit in

a nine hundred ninety four massacre that remains like so many other cases from that era unsolved listening posts daniel touring now on the ongoing difficulties of documenting the troubles in northern are. yes. i was getting ready for work. this and knock at the door. when the police came in they commanded my kitchen and they produced a piece of paper which they said was the warranty offices here where we work. were banging read it and i said ok we need to take your phone on one walk lighting the voters have been seizing your phone and your laptop we were fingerprint that had our d.n.a. our mug shot taken put in the place sales of the said that they were there to look

for materials linked to the time. no stone unturned is a documentary that investigates the killing in one thousand nine hundred four of six on catholics in a pub in northern ireland. the facts on this man. the film featured a confidential report written by a police. report which mccaffrey says he was sent anonymously it shows that during the original investigation police did identify one of the suspects as a police informant which implied collusion on the part of the british state but no one was ever convicted or even stood trial for the murders i'll never forget their words we will leave no stone unturned and thank them for the after story never mind wonderful. one of the reasons for mccaffrey in bernie's arrests was suspected unlawful disclosure of information on that the u.k. official secrets act another was suspicion of theft is arrests were made on the basis that the police ombudsman's office had reported the theft of documents from

its office however the police ombudsman office has come back and said very firmly no we did not make a complaint of theft. their notion that they would be arrested and we hadn't heard any sign of those who they named. in the film being arrested it was startling trevor. bernie and barry mccaffrey have conducted a very important public service this was a terrible murder unsolved and the evidence of collusion is very persuasive and they have peeled back the layers which remained hidden for twenty five years i'm standing inside along. the difficulties faced by journalists reporting on the troubles a result of the conflict itself varying degrees of censorship affected media outlets across the board in the late eighty's and early ninety's members of certain

organizations and those associated with them could be seen on t.v. but not heard music going to ization i got around the government ban on broadcasting their voices by using voice actors we have here an opportunity for peace however other restrictions had long been in place particularly for the public broadcaster the b.b.c. . they had a system called referring up if you were making a programme about the troubles in northern ireland you had to go all the way up to the very top of the hierarchy in the b.b.c. to get their permission for example a b.b.c. programme called twenty four hours wanted to make a programme looking at the ira and some detail what it was about who supported it. they referred all the way up to the top of the b.b.c. and it was killed on the referral system was quite scary actually and i was daunted because it would end up with a big round table conference with the lawyer the head of eligible policy the head

of news. director general and you would have to literally justify pretty much every line and it costs dot on the army's official version of events but look it was a good process because in the end if you had the evidence you ended up with with a sort of you know strong arms wrapped around you. however i dozens of productions were censored i'm not only at the b.b.c. . in one case regulators demanded the removal of this scene from the one nine hundred eighty one documentary the propaganda war because it was deemed too sympathetic to the enemy the company behind it granada refused to comply and had to withdraw the film it was eventually broadcast a decade later. other decisions verged on the paranoid. music video by the rock group the police was banned by both the b.b.c. and i.t.v.

all because of these belfast street scenes i think that the censorship the first thing is that it was mild and i certainly think it was understandable there was a long terrorist campaign. and the governments didn't know what to do about it and one of the ways of trying to talk us through minor levels of censorship of what they thought were people who advocated terrorism so i have no dart the fact that the media was fundamentally free and that it fundamentally used that freedom responsibly. in one thousand nine hundred eighty five the b.b.c. under pressure from the government the documentary real lives at the edge of the union because of its interview with a senior ira member journalists across the country went on strike in protest at the disruption leading to messages like this being broadcast instead of music and the film did eventually yeah three months later. i was.

on behalf of my people again it was one of many that push boundaries. for example when they s.a.'s shot dead. activists in into baltar a program was made called death on the rock and that you know produced an eyewitness and her account contradicted the official version which was that a warning had been given to the iraqi people and they refused to surrender and then they were shot dead. they put their hand that when they feel the man with a gun in their hand of they couldn't say anything there was no interchange of words it was just so and i think that had enormous impact on public opinion british and northern irish journalists reporting during the troubles were not on the direct government censorship but neither were the media truly free today two decades on from the landmark peace deal the good friday agreement censorship is seen as a thing of the par however while the conflict may be formally over the unsolved

crimes from that period proving too great for journalists to ignore. collusion the complicity of the british state in crimes committed by paramilitary groups is the issue attracting the most attention and as the documentary no stone unturned has demonstrated the most control the sea. there's been several definitions of collusion ranging from the will fall failure to record information to withholding evidence right up to the more obvious definition of relation to the state actively engaging with paramount jorgen assertion to kill someone we do need journalists to look into collusion but the trouble is that the word collusion itself is very loaded and there's a danger that it's become a gonna catch all for everything bad that the security forces did there's an attempt to establish a narrative of the ira vs collusion in other words what it is trying to do

is saying that the british state was riddled with collusion and that the ira was a legitimate response to that i would accept that in the one nine hundred seventy s. the media focus on state wrongdoing was insufficient number last i know i think that there is a grossly unbalanced focus on collusion. the role of journalism in documenting northern ireland's troubles has been hotly contested ever since the conflict began this place and with an estimated three thousand killings still unsold it's a situation that looks unlikely to change anytime soon it's very clear that northern ireland needs to deal with its past it's not just going to go away you can't have reconciliation where you have people not knowing about what happened i think journalists have been told repeatedly over the years oh don't talk about this because that's going to unsettle the police don't talk about that because you're

supporting terrorism if you talk like about and it's just not true journalism has to investigate the truth that's what we're there for. finally the arrival of donald trump in the white house a little more than two years back was a chance to make american satirists great again so. much material to work with but as you've seen from your feeds not all of the comedic output hits the mark for our money one satirist randy rainbow has emerged from the pack he first became known online for poking fun at celebrities from the world of entertainment and then when one of those celebrities landed in the oval office he turned to politics made sense is one part musical theater one part pop music and we'll leave you with randy rainbows latest is madonna inspired take on donald trump's mexican the wall emergency it's called border lies we'll see you next time you're at the listening post your fake news some say that you're just fear mongering and using inflated

statistics to help your own agenda not too many people have said this. but. here in. drugs and gangs and people it's an invitation. to sit. down. here you need to do here. to. get it gets done.

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