{"id":1360357,"date":"2022-03-05T21:22:35","date_gmt":"2022-03-06T02:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1360357"},"modified":"2022-03-05T21:22:41","modified_gmt":"2022-03-06T02:22:41","slug":"cnn-abc-cbs-bbc-bloomberg-cease-russian-broadcasting-arms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-abc-cbs-bbc-bloomberg-cease-russian-broadcasting-arms\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN, ABC, CBS, BBC, Bloomberg Cease Russian Broadcasting Arms"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcnn-abc-cbs-bbc-bloomberg-cease-russian-broadcasting-arms%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1360357&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Putin-Press-Conference-Broadcast-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The West\u2019s severance from Russia became more apparent this week when CNN International, ABC, CBS, and other major news outlets announced they will stop broadcasting in the Eastern European country following its invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The move out of Russia comes in response to the Kremlin introducing a new law that would jail anyone spreading fake news or misinformation about the invasion of Ukraine. Russian officials claim that the United States and Western Europe have been intentionally spreading fake news to spark an uprising against the Kremlin.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u201cLawmakers in Moscow passed amendments to the criminal code making the spread of \u2018fake\u2019 information an offense punishable with fines or jail terms,\u201d They also imposed fines for anyone calling for\u00a0sanctions against Russia\u00a0following the\u00a0invasion of Ukraine,\u201d\u00a0according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10579867\/CNN-ABC-CBS-BBC-CBC-Bloomberg-stop-broadcasting-Russia-fake-news-law-comes-in.html\"><em>Daily Mail<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u201cThe new legislation was passed by parliament and will become law when Vladimir Putin signs it, as he is widely expected to do. It was not clear when Putin would sign the measure,\u201d added the outlet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">People in violation of the law could face up to 15 years in prison. CNN,\u00a0ABC, CBS, Bloomberg, BBC, and CBC all announced they would be discontinuing their broadcasts.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u201cCNN will stop broadcasting in Russia while we continue to evaluate the situation and our next steps moving forward,\u201d a network spokesperson said Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u201cThe change to the criminal code, which seems designed to turn any independent reporter into a criminal purely by association, makes it impossible to continue any semblance of normal journalism inside the country,\u201d Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">CBS, ABC, CBC, and the BBC all made similar announcements. Interim BBC News\u00a0Director Jonathan Munro confirmed that while broadcasts within the country will be suspended, the network will not be \u201cpulling out journalists from Moscow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u201cWe cannot use their reporting for the time being but they remain valued members of our teams and we hope to get them back on our output as soon as possible,\u201d tweeted Munro.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We are not pulling out <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BBCNews<\/a> journalists from Moscow, as some articles are suggesting. We cannot use their reporting for the time being but they remain valued members of our teams and we hope to get them back on our output as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jonathan Munro (@jonathancmunro) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jonathancmunro\/status\/1499789318738567172?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 4, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Both the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> and the <em>Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0 announced they would not be suspending operations in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u201cOur top priorities are the safety of our employees and covering this important story fairly and fully. Being in Moscow, freely able to talk to officials and capture the mood, is key to that mission,\u201d said a spokesperson for the <em>WSJ<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u201cWe are assessing the details of the Russian law and its potential impact on our reporting. We intend to exercise caution while seeking clarity about how these reported restrictions would affect Washington Post correspondents and local staff,\u201d said the <em>Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The West\u2019s severance from Russia became more apparent this week when CNN International, ABC, CBS, and other major news outlets announced they will stop broadcasting in the Eastern European country<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1360357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1360357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1360357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1360357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1360357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}