Article by The Economist.
June 13, 2020.
All over the continent, Asia’s journalists and media firms are under pressure from the withdrawal of government advertising, unwarranted tax investigations, spurious criminal charges, hostile takeovers, suspect fake-news campaigns, online trolling and old-fashioned thuggery. Since 2018 press freedom has declined in more than a dozen Asian countries, according to Reporters Without Borders, a watchdog.
It is worrying that governments which have always manhandled the press are getting rougher. More alarming still, countries with a long history of press freedom have begun to pick on journalists.
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