Journalism and Free Expression from the US to Kashmir

In the first half of the program, cohost Mickey Huff welcomes back to the show journalist and author Kevin Gosztola to talk about several stories threatening free speech and a free press, from the local to the global. Kevin discusses the dearth of local independent media in this country and how his efforts to fill that gap in his community have resulted in escalated threats to his free press and free speech rights. Kevin also highlights a new policy at the Pentagon that essentially demands reporters not be reporters if they want to report from the Pentagon, and how one reporter in Atlanta is facing deportation for being a journalist. Next up, Eleanor Goldfield sits down with Kashmiri filmmaker Arfat Sheikh to talk about his film, Saffron Kingdom. Arfat discusses the myriad threats from the Indian government aimed at Kashmir’s storytellers. He talks about the framing of Bollywood to always portray Kashmiris as terrorists and why Kashmiris need to reclaim the narrative in telling their own stories, in his case tapping into the power of film to humanize the dehumanized. The post Journalism and Free Expression from the US to Kashmir appeared first on Project Censored.