11. Self-Restraint vs. Self-Censorship
By Jean-Paul Marthoz
A French police officer uses a sniffer dog to check a stadium in Nice in February 2016. European cities have stepped up security measures after a series of terror attacks.
(Reuters/Eric Gaillard)
European journalists are on edge. Since the brutal execution of eight colleagues at the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo on January 7, 2015, they have become acutely aware that they are in the firing line of extremists.
“Journalists will not cede to fear,” said Ricardo Gutierrez, the European Federation of Journalists' general secretary, after a second attack, on November 13, 2015, ...
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