Europe: Journalists Against Free Speech

Gatestone Institute:

• Gone is all pretense that journalism is about reporting the facts. These are the aims of a political actor.
• Being bought and paid for by the EU apparently counts as "press freedom" these days.
• According to the guidelines, journalists should, among other things, "Provide an appropriate range of opinions, including those belonging to migrants and members of minorities, but... not... extremist perspectives just to 'show the other side'.... Don't allow extremists' claims about acting 'in the name of Islam' to stand unchallenged.... where it is necessary and newsworthy to report hateful comments against Muslims, mediate the information."

The European Federation of Journalists (EJF), "the largest organization of journalists in Europe, represents over 320,000 journalists in 71 journalists' organizations across 43 countries," according to its website. The EJF, a powerful player, also leads a Europe-wide campaign called "Media against Hate."



The "Media against Hate" campaign aims to:



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