'It’s like a cancer': David Pratt warns of global danger to press freedoms

'It’s like a cancer': David Pratt warns of global danger to press freedoms

THE National's Foreign Editor has warned of the dangers to press freedom and said the UK is beginning to go down "some worrying routes"

In Cambodia, freedom of the press has been increasingly restricted for years. As the US government has cut funds for the media there, there is a further deterioration in the house. Soon there will be no independent media in Cambodia? In 2018, the sale of the "Phnom Penh Post" was forced to a government-oriented company; now the paper only appears online. (Photo: EPA-EFE/KITH SEREY) "This is an important contribution to the elimination of fake ne…