Countries with well-funded public service broadcasters experience less rightwing extremism and corruption according to human rights commissioner Nils Muiznieks -AFP photo
STRASBOURG, FRANCE: The Council of Europe added its voice Tuesday to global concern over press freedom, saying that European public broadcasters and their regulators face increasing threats to their independence.
“The situation on the ground gives rise to concerns,” the council’s human rights commissioner Nils Muiznieks said in a report published on the eve of World Press Freedom Day.
The pan-European rights watchdog has received an increasing number of alerts about political interference and lack of funding for public broadcasters on the …read more
Source: The Borneo Post
