For today, links to a report from AlterNet and to commentary from Jonathan-Cook.net via Consortium News; other articles are accessible by clicking their names below. (MEDIA 5-7-25 is HERE, or scroll down.  WEST BANK, GAZA, UKRAINE, YEMEN and SYRIA entries for this date  are HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE, or scroll up.) — MCM

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N.Y. Times publisher warns Trump waging ‘frontal attack’ on free press, by Ailia Zehra | AlterNet  “Since 2016, the number of countries deemed to have a ‘good’ record of protecting press freedom by Reporters Without Borders dropped by more than half,” Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger wrote in an op-ed in the newspaper on Tuesday. “Effectively, in his first term President Trump exported his anti-press rhetoric to illiberal leaders abroad.” READ MORE . . .

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FROM MAY 12  BBC mystifies starvation in Gaza, by Jonathan Cook | Jonathan-Cook.net / Consortium News  The BBC and its Verify service are not keeping viewers informed. They are propagandising them into believing a clear crime against humanity by Israel is, in fact, highly complicated geopolitics that audiences cannot hope to understand. READ MORE . . .

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