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The OSCE has finally paid attention to the issue of media outlets being labeled "foreign agents" and condemned this practice. The organization only took notice
after Moscow's retaliatory move to RT being targeted in the US.
"Branding media entities as 'foreign agents' is a dangerous practice, as it can narrow the space for freedom of the media," said Harlem Desir, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe's (OSCE) Representative on Freedom of the Media, in a
statement on Thursday. The official then expressed his "concern" about measures taken by the US and Russia "requiring the media entities from other countries to register themselves as 'foreign agents.'"
Registration of media outlets as foreign agents is not acceptable, Desir said, expressing further concerns over "pieces of legislation, while originally designed for non-media actors, ... being extended to cover the media," the OSCE said in its statement.
The OSCE media representative then warned that registration as a foreign agent would most likely impose "additional administrative burdens" upon the affected media organization as well as would "stigmatize" their journalists. "I call on both the Unites States and the Russian Federation to reconsider and refrain from requiring media entities to register as 'foreign agents' and not take further steps," he said, as he offered his assistance to both countries in resolving the issue.
Comment: Unfortunately it seems that Trump has capitulated to the U.S. military-industrial complex and Deep State and is relatively powerless to act outside of their agenda. Short of some kind of real and organized uprising by the American people, the 'land of the free' will continue its horrifically destructive policies both at home and around the world.
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