Post-COVID: Will Journalists Be Just As Carried Away By Geopolitics And Techno-Nationalism? Subscribe Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/columnists/202104291082761263-post-covid-will-journalists-be-just-as-carried-away-by-geopolitics-and-techno-nationalism/ Geopolitics, Geoeconomics and Techno-nationalism are the next big things for global leaders to fight over. But in a post-COVID era, journalists from all over the world face a new challenge of resisting pressures from their own government on these three subjects so they can continue to report as objectively as possible. “I think it’s time to return gradually to the usual patterns of life - there’s no need to be terrified.” This sentence is from a column published on 11 February 2020 in NoCut News, a daily newspaper run by South Korea's Christian Broadcasting Service (CBS). Even though the sentiment is prefaced with the caveat “although we should take serious preventive actions”, it implies a return to the comfortable normality of "pre-COVID-19" from the unsettling "now". And it is a wish with which many will agree.