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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) The White House and the federal government have won the dubious honor of a "Jefferson Muzzle" for snooping on the news media and limiting access.

The censorship-shaming awards announced Wednesday by the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression are intended to draw a harsh light on people and institutions that engage in the most egregious affronts to the First Amendment.

Other recipients included the governing board of Kansas' public universities. A new board policy says faculty members who use social media to disrupt "harmony among co-workers" or make comments deemed "contrary to the best interest of the university" can be fired. The policy was a reaction to a faculty member's statements on his personal Twitter.

The awards are announced each year on or near the April 13 birthday of Jefferson, a free-speech advocate and the nation's third president. Winners get a T-shirt with Jefferson's likeness and a black rectangle over his mouth.

Josh Wheeler, director of the Charlottesville center, said in the Muzzles' 23-year history, he can't remember a time in which free press issues dominated the awards.

"From the White House to the statehouse, from universities to high schools, members of the press have had to defend against a variety of challenges, some never seen before," Wheeler said in a statement.

The White House collected a Muzzle for limiting photographers' access at events deemed private. The presidents of the American Society of Newspaper Editors and The Associated Press have urged their members to stop using White House handout photos and video, saying they amount to propaganda.

The Obama administration has said the handouts allow the public greater access to the inner workings of the administration.

The U.S. Justice Department was singled out for seizing telephone records of AP reporters and editors and for falsely labeling a Fox News reporter a criminal co-conspirator to obtain a search warrant for his phone records and emails.

The Justice Department announced in February it was revising its rules for obtaining records from the media in leak investigations to give news organizations an opportunity to challenge any subpoenas or search warrants in federal court.

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Dr Mahathir chides the Western world for being more rigid with their media censorship.

PETALING JAYA: Dr Mahathir Mohamad continued his tirade against the western media saying that the media in western world were the worst censors.

He said, however, the western media was always quick to condemn others, especially eastern media of censorship.

In making a comparison when he was Prime Minister, Dr Mahathir said he was often accused by Western nations, particularly the Western media, of controlling the press.

Since retirement I read a lot about the administration of Western countries. The censorship they practise on their press and publication is more stringent than anything we have seen here. said Dr Mahathir.

Dr Mahathir further took a dig at how the Americans and the Western media have been totally forbidden to utter anything against the Jews and in specific Israel. He also said, They may not also report about the un-American activities of the Jews in their own country.

Dr Mahathir went on to narrate how the banking system in United States (US), that is controlled by Jews, have been manipulating politicians into going into meaningless wars in order to earn profits,

They abuse the financial systems to such an extent that financial crises would plague the countries and even the world every now and again. And when they go bankrupt they force governments to borrow money from them to bail out their companies and banks.

He particularly picked on Rothschild and his family who created the banking system and the setting up of the Federal Reserve System as the central bank of the US saying that: Almost all the other great bankers in the US and European countries were people with clearly Jewish namesbut effectively this fact is not allowed to be mentioned.

Dr Mahathir in drilling his argument deeper said that the media and publishers have practically been barred from publishing anything that may be considered anti-Semitic and if they tried, it will be censored.

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The west censors more, says Dr M

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PIC: The Malay MailKUALA LUMPUR: The Western world has no right to lecture other nations on freedom of speech as it too practices censorship of anti-Semitic views, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad claimed today.

Malaysias former prime minister - known for his controversial views about Jews - alleged today that should anybody say anything bad about the Jews, they would be censored and any of their publications would be blocked from being published or sold in even major bookshops.

Dr Mahathir had previously stoked controversy when he suggested in 2010 that the September 11, 2001 attacks against the United States had been staged as an excuse to mount attacks on the Muslim world.

In 2003, he also sparked outrage when he said that Jews ruled the world by proxy by getting others to fight and die for them.

The West has therefore no right to lecture others about freedom of speech, of the media or of publication, Dr Mahathir wrote in a posting on his blog today.

They themselves do not practice what they preach. They are the worst censors in the world.

According to Dr Mahathir, the censorship was a result of the Jews demanding that nothing bad be said about them, which was accommodated by the governments of the Western world.

In making his point, he cited the case of English writer David Irving, who was according to him arrested in Austria, tried, and jailed for being anti-Semitic after claiming that the number of Jews killed by the German Nazis were fewer than six million.

That is the extent of censorship in Europe. Even if you say anything supposedly anti-semitic in another country, you may be jailed by any European country, added Dr Mahathir.

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Dr M Cites Anti-Nazi Laws as Proof Of Censorship In The West