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A review by imcorneliastark
Bad News: Last Journalists in a Dictatorship by Anjan Sundaram
4.0
It’s sad that such dictatorships are still prevalent in our world and how freedom of speech is threatened. What’s even more distressing is the way Western nations and world organisations turn a blind eye on what it’s happening in less developed nations and how they support the corrupt and autocratic governments despite of notorious warnings from journalists which are eventually killed or forced to flee the country.
The piece that struck me most is when author sees the huts’ roofs destroyed by the government’s order.
“The man said the local authorities had come to the village and told the people to destroy their roofs. It was an order (…) And what did this man think? “They are too primitive,” he said. “Our country is modern now”.
The power of social influence, governmental influence not only on explicit but also implicit attitudes of the citizens is striking. And this isn’t how life in a country supported by United Nations should look like.
The piece that struck me most is when author sees the huts’ roofs destroyed by the government’s order.
“The man said the local authorities had come to the village and told the people to destroy their roofs. It was an order (…) And what did this man think? “They are too primitive,” he said. “Our country is modern now”.
The power of social influence, governmental influence not only on explicit but also implicit attitudes of the citizens is striking. And this isn’t how life in a country supported by United Nations should look like.