{"id":1262,"date":"2026-02-08T15:36:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T05:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhinoeasy.com\/?p=1262"},"modified":"2026-02-08T15:36:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T05:36:32","slug":"best-of-fighting-for-free-press-in-russia-fear-and-fury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhinoeasy.com\/?p=1262","title":{"rendered":"Best Of: Fighting for free press in Russia \/ \u2018Fear and Fury\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Julia Loktev\u2019s latest documentary, \u2018My Undesirable Friends &#8211; Part 1: Last Air in Moscow,\u2019 follows independent Russian journalists in the months leading up to, and just after, Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The film has arrived in the U.S. at a moment when questions about press freedom feel newly present. \u201cEvery day it feels like there is something to bring the story home for Americans, where it almost feels like there\u2019s Easter eggs in the film that become more and more relevant.\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Heather Ann Thompson revisits a 1984 New York City subway shooting, when Bernhard Goetz, a white man, shot four Black teenagers. In the days that followed, Goetz became a hometown hero. \u201cWe are watching someone tell us exactly who they are, exactly what they did, and it will not matter. Up will become down, down will become up. And that also felt very, very familiar to where we are today.\u201d Her book is \u2018Fear and Fury.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: RhinoEasy News<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julia Loktev\u2019s latest documentary, \u2018My Undesirable Friends &#8211; Part 1: Last Air in Moscow,\u2019 follows independent Russian journalists in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhinoeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhinoeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhinoeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhinoeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhinoeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rhinoeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhinoeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhinoeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhinoeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhinoeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}