Beyond Besieged: Understanding the Media’s Ills, And Finding Cures
By Nicholas Benequista We need new metaphors to describe the threats to independent media around the world. For years, terms such as “attacked” or “besieged” were used to conjure the image of journalists resisting an onslaught from repressive leaders behind a battered rampart. In retrospect, this may have always been an imperfect metaphor, but it…