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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Jack Seale, Phil Harrison, Hollie Richardson, Ali Catterall and Simon Wardell

TV tonight: the Native American tribe battling for freedom of the press

The reporter Angel Ellis looking at her phone in Bad Press
Independent voice … Angel Ellis in Bad Press. Photograph: Tyler Graim/BBC/Oklafilm

Storyville: Bad Press

10pm, BBC Four
This documentary, which concerns the Muscogee journalist Angel Ellis’s battle for press freedom, is structured like a political thriller. The Muscogee Nation is the fourth-largest Native American tribe – and one of the few to have established an independent press. But that progressive movement was censored in 2018 by the tribe’s legislature, acting in self-interest in the run-up to an election. Ellis consistently says exactly what she thinks – can she win back the right to report whatever she sees fit? Jack Seale

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