The key aim of UNESCO – the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization – is to encourage world peace through international cooperation and openness.
To celebrate World Press Freedom Day, in the face of news that Russia has rerouted the internet in the occupied region of Ukraine and is only allowing access to state-sanctioned news, they tweeted this.
Free press = free society.
Free press = free society.
Free press = free society.
Free press = free society.
Free press = free society.
Free press = free society.
Free press = free society.
Free press = free society.
Free press = free society.#PressFreedom #WorldPressFreedomDay— UNESCO
#Education #Sciences #Culture
(@UNESCO) May 3, 2022
The Minister of State for Digital, Cultural, Media and Sport – Nadine Dorries – fresh from sharing a very misleading Daily Mail article about Keir Starmer, had a supportive response.
All very admirable, of course, but deeply, deeply ironic.
Tweeters’ reactions explained why.
1.
You wanted @mrjamesob fired, you work for a Prime Minister who discussed beating a journalist up, and you have retweeted doctored videos. https://t.co/qICebf4W3e
— Steve Peers (@StevePeers) May 3, 2022
2.
Satire is dead https://t.co/bqGq3txFIj
— Mitch Benn
(@MitchBenn) May 3, 2022
3.
Dorries believes in press freedom
Dorries also gets angry with journalists
Like when The Times reported how she told pals how "Nick Robinson cost the BBC a lot of money" after his heated exchange with Johnson
Dorries then demolishes said press outlets
Dorries is a bullshitter https://t.co/WJEToA8USL
— Marina Purkiss (@MarinaPurkiss) May 3, 2022
4.
Nadine once publicly threatened to nail a journalist's testicles to the floor using his own front teeth.
But sure, today she likes press freedom, I guess https://t.co/FV8l5BfHgX
— Russ Jones (@RussInCheshire) May 3, 2022
5.
Unless they are being fearless and fair in a way that challenges our attempt to erode democracy and stay in power forever, in which case they can bog off, right Nads?
— Parody Boris (@Parody_PM) May 3, 2022
6.
It's not just that irony is dead. It's that Nads keeps backing up her car and driving it over irony's bloody, battered corpse. https://t.co/QrdNAS8BMh
— Stephen Farrow
(@stephenfarrow) May 3, 2022
7.
Presumably, with reference to Jamal Khashoggi, you mentioned this to the Saudis when you popped over in February.
— THE SECRET TORY
(@secrettory12) May 3, 2022
8.
How is this not a parody account? https://t.co/iWC6rU1SAX
— Joe Zas
9.
You only want freedom of the media if it’s agreeing with you. https://t.co/5pZlwENKh5
— Old King Cole
#FBPE #FBPPR 3.5% (@stevecoleOxford) May 3, 2022
10.
It was interesting for the makers of The Thick Of It to try a different medium but that’s quite enough now. https://t.co/BlM7gKnhcf
— Bex (@wevegotwheels) May 3, 2022
11.
Textbook gaslighting. Impressive work. https://t.co/ttgwvN3cDz
— TheyPlagueHorsesDon'tThey? (@Ride4Truth) May 3, 2022
12.
"All"? pic.twitter.com/q8LBrLGEUQ
— GET A GRIP (@docrussjackson) May 3, 2022
Danny Wallace brought up the C word. Not that one, this one –
She'd love @Channel4News! https://t.co/CFfMZPIqSv
— Danny Wallace (@dannywallace) May 3, 2022
R.I.P. Irony. You will be missed.
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