Tag: censorship
‘Sounds like censorship to me.’ O cinema co-founder slams proposed eviction over film
Mandalit del Barco O Cinema South Beach, an independent, non-profit movie theater, has been showing sold-out screenings of the controversial, Oscar-winning film No Other Land. But the Miami Beach’s mayor calls the documentary “anti-semitic” and is now trying to cut off the city’s funding and lease to the cinema, which is operating on city property.…
Control, censorship and ‘penalties’: inside the Assad regime’s propaganda arm
For years reporters at Syria’s state news agency had to toe the line. As life in Syria grew harder, so did the their work After 21 years, the day Farouk feared had finally come. An envelope sealed with red wax made its way through the faded hallways of Syria’s national news agency, Sana, and landed…