Putin Puts Up Digital Walls, Making Reporting From Russia Much More Difficult
Reliable Sources
CNN
3.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Brian Stelter reports on a new Russian law that may make legitimate reporting a crime. Robert Mahoney, Julia Ioffe and Thomas Friedman analyze Putin's crackdown on the press. Jim Sciutto explains the challenges in confirming information from the battleground. An executive from Facebook's parent company says the company is trying to restore service in Russia. And a TV host from a Ukrainian news network has a message for the world.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Brian Salter live in New York and this is Reliable Sources, where we examine |
| 0:05.4 | the story behind this story and we figure out what's reliable. |
| 0:08.7 | This hour, talking about the media world, we're going live to the war zone, talking about |
| 0:12.1 | how news crews are dealing with dangers in both Ukraine and Russia. |
| 0:15.6 | Plus, what's being underappreciated in all the news coverage? |
| 0:18.5 | We're going to get perspective from Thomas Friedman, Jim Sudo and more. |
| 0:21.9 | And later, as Facebook is now banned inside Russia, an executive from Facebook's parent |
| 0:26.1 | company, Metta, will join us live. |
| 0:28.9 | The first. |
| 0:31.0 | The Kremlin is criminalizing journalism about Russia's invasion of Ukraine. |
| 0:35.4 | Russian officials are building digital and legal walls to shield citizens from the truth. |
| 0:40.1 | And people in other countries are also noticing the consequences. |
| 0:43.6 | Maybe you've noticed this weekend as a viewer. |
| 0:46.5 | Because this weekend, all the major American networks stopped broadcasting live reports |
| 0:51.0 | from Russia. |
| 0:52.3 | Network space in the UK and Italy and other countries have done the same thing. |
| 0:56.4 | The Washington Post and other digital outlets have stopped putting reporters' names and |
| 1:00.0 | locations on their stories from Russia in a bid to protect them. |
| 1:05.1 | Stripping bylines and stopping live shots and suspending operations, these are extraordinary |
| 1:09.3 | measures that are being taken to protect staffers, not from physical bombs as a Ukraine, |
| 1:14.8 | but from potential retaliation and prison time in Russia. |
| 1:19.1 | This all started when Vladimir Putin signed a censorship bill into law on Friday, rendering |
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