#LegalizeTrueSpeech: “not permissible to refer to the suspect‘s religious, ethnic or other minority membership” (PresseKodex 12.1), “refrain from inappropriately sensational portrayal of violence, brutality and suffering” (PresseKodex 11)
Dozens of countries have followed the New York Times’ suit and enacted regulations that shun and prohibit true speech in news media: Spain, Russia, Serbia, Finland, Hungary, Switzerland, Belarus, Pakistan, … 62 years of systematic mandatory omission of true information spread world wide in media codes, police reports, silence about interracial school bullying and rape, …
August 11, 1946: The [New York] Times introduced an “editorial change announcing they will no longer refer to the race of persons suspected of a crime unless race is relevant to the story” . 62 years of systematic mandatory omission of true information. Thou shalt not tell the whole truth, like “Black man robbed, assaulted, …
