Sentence examples for media independence from inspiring English sources

A consortium that included Tsai quickly made plans to buy the paper, sparking renewed protests over media independence in Taiwan.

Those were identified recently in a secret memo as the advocacy of electoral democracy, news media independence and "universal values" like human rights.

One need only add to the mix the repression of dissent and the assault on media independence, reducing news outlets to virtual propaganda organs of the state.

In Freedom House's 2009 survey of media independence, Italy was downgraded to "partly free" and placed 73rd in a list of 195 countries (only just above Bulgaria).

As media independence drains away, Russians are increasingly contemptuous of journalism in general and shrug their shoulders when journalists are beaten for their work, he said.

Restricting judicial and media independence, Hungary's current leader has declared his aim to turn his country into an overtly illiberal state, on the model of Russia and China.

Other threats cited in the memo were promoting "universal values" of human rights, Western-inspired ideas of news-media independence and civic participation, ardently pro-market "neo-liberalism" and "nihilist" criticisms of the party's past.

Still, journalists admit that their coverage could raise questions about the Japanese news media's independence, and not for the first time.

At the same time it has raised concerns about freedom of speech and the media, the independence of the judiciary, and the government's utilisation of its parliamentary majority to pass laws without engaging in public debate.

India has also had other essential features of a democracy, in particular continued freedom and vigor of the media and independence of the judiciary, with the Supreme Court often disallowing decisions of those in governmental office on constitutional grounds.

Second, undermines the media's independence to question science (or report objectively on lower cost options).