If you perform the job of an actual journalist, telling truth to power, forget about attending press conferences at the White House, Pentagon or State Department. You won't even be admitted in the building.
If you are an official from a "valuable ally" - such as the House of Saud or the regime in Israeli - you are assured a tough question-free pulpit anywhere you choose, especially if you're fluent in English.
But if you are an official from a "rogue" regime, the maximum you can aspire is to be humiliated in public, as it happened to Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad at Columbia University in New York. Especially if you don't speak English, and most of what you say is lost in translation.
On the other hand, if you are a travelling US corporate media hack, you can get away with murder.
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Media freedom continues to be curtailed worldwide:
'Clear and present danger to freedom of the press'
Journalists hold 'emergency conference' amid 'government's attempt to silence dissenting voices'
Hundreds of journalists on Sunday took part in an "emergency conference" to discuss what they referred to as immediate threats to freedom of the press.
The conference, held at Tel Aviv’s Cinematheque, was called in response to a recent downsizing in Israeli media outlets, the pending closure of Channel 10 and a bill toughening Israeli libel laws.
Gordimer slates secrecy bill as blow against freedom
Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer has accused the ANC of taking South Africa beyond apartheid with the Protection of Information Bill.
Gordimer, speaking in Johannesburg at an 88th birthday celebration yesterday, said the bill goes “totally against all ideas of freedom”.
Media Freedom In Hungary In Peril – Delegation
"Hungary is in a particular crisis situation, London-based media diversity institute representative Aidan White told reporters in Budapest last week. White was part of a delegation of officials from 13 international watchdogs who arrived in Hungary to examine the state of its media earlier in the week, something that has not taken place in any other EU country.
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