September 13, 2011
MADA: Increase in violations against Palestinian journalists Published yesterday (updated) 13/09/2011 18:45 Palestinian journalists attend a sit-in in the city of Bethlehem protesting harassment by Palestinian security forces [MaanImages/Luay Sababa, File] BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Violations against journalists in the West Bank and Gaza by Palestinian security forces and Israeli authorities increased in August, a [...]
Tags: Gaza, Gaza Strip, Hamas, Israel, middle east, Palestinian National Authority, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, West Bank
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July 26, 2011
Dope dilemma: should a journalist smoke pot to get a source to open up? Washington Post humour columnist Gene Weingarten has set journalists a problem. I’ve amended it just slightly for a British audience. A reporter is sent to interview a man who can help to reveal a matter of major national importance. It would be [...]
Tags: Cannabis (drug), Gene Weingarten, Journalism, Journalist, Media, Reporter, Smoking, Washington Post
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July 26, 2011
How Would Murdoch’s Downfall Affect Israel? Don’t Ask the US Media by JAMES M. WALL on JULY 25, 2011 JTA columnist Ron Kampeas has been a lone voice in sounding the alarm to his Jewish readers: “Pro-Israel leaders in the United States, Britain and Australia are warily watching the unfolding of the phone-hacking scandal that is threatening to [...]
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July 26, 2011
Robbie Williams: Scotland Yard told his solicitor that a number of his clients were referred to in Glenn Mulcaire‘s documents. Photograph: Luke Macgregor/Reuters Now it’s the turn of lawyers and the legal process to be sucked into the phone-hacking vortex. The Law Society has even suggested justice itself is under threat, implying messages could have been [...]
Tags: Andy Coulson, Berwin Leighton Paisner, Harbottle & Lewis, Metropolitan Police Service, News of the World, News of the World phone hacking affair, Solicitors Act 1974, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Posted in James Murdoch, Journalism, Manufacturing Consent, Media, News, News Corp, News hacking, News international, News of the World, news report, Political psychopaths, Propaganda, Protests, Psycopaths, Rebekah Brooks, Regulating Democracy, Rupert Murdoch, Rupert not born in the USA, UK, UK fascism, UK Foreign Policy, UK Monarchy, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US public opinion, voodoo rhythm economics | No Comments »
June 28, 2011
The British always claim to have something in reserve. But what happens when the pedal goes to the metal and there’s nothing there? Perhaps a new election would help the unelected form a proper government perhaps that’s not possible in the capital project where its one for one and all for one. The next [...]
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June 26, 2011
“A Moment in the Sun”: An Extended Interview with Independent Filmmaker, Author John Sayles Share1172 We spend the hour with legendary independent filmmaker and author, John Sayles. Over the past three decades, he has directed 17 feature films, including Return of the Secaucus Seven, Matewan, Lone Star, and Eight Men Out. He has often used [...]
Tags: Bruce Springsteen, Dale Maharidge, Independent film, John Sayles, O. Henry Award, Philippines, Return of the Secaucus 7, United States
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June 22, 2011
US journalist Jose Antonio Vargas: I’m an illegal alien In the New York Times, Pulitzer Prize winner Jose Antonio Vargas reveals his true status. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images One of America’s top journalists has admitted he is an undocumented alien. In a startling first person piece in the New York Times, Pulitzer Prize winner Jose Antonio [...]
Tags: Dream Act, Illegal immigration, Jose Antonio Vargas, New York Times, Pulitzer Prize, United States, Washington DC, Washington Post
Posted in Art and general issues, debate and discussion, Democracy, Education, Elites, Human Rights, Imperial Project, Imperialism, Journalism, Propaganda, Psycopaths, Uncategorized, US public opinion, USA | No Comments »
June 6, 2011
Iraqi activist: PM paints protesters as terrorists – Sun Jun 5, 8:46 am ET BAGHDAD – A leading Iraqi human rights organizer who confronted the prime minister on national TV says he is trying to paint legitimate protesters as terrorists. Hana Adwar’s comments were broadcast live Sunday during a human rights conference in Baghdad attended by Prime Minister Nouri [...]
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June 3, 2011
The BBC is on Murdoch’s side 30 September 2010 Britain is said to be approaching its Berlusconi Moment. That is to say, if Rupert Murdoch wins control of Sky he will command half the television and newspaper market and threaten what is known as public service broadcasting. Although the alarm is ringing, it is unlikely [...]
Tags: Andrew Marr, BBC, Downing Street Memo, George W. Bush, Hugh Greene, Iraq, Jeremy Paxman, Rupert Murdoch, Saddam Hussein, Tony Blair, Warfare and Conflict
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May 23, 2011
Robert W. McChesney is the Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 2002 he was the co-founder of Free Press, a national media reform organization – www.freepress.net – and served as its President until April 2008, and remains on its Board of Directors. McChesney also [...]
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Is this where having a stiff upper lip gets the British?
The British always claim to have something in reserve. But what happens when the pedal goes to the metal and there’s nothing there? Perhaps a new election would help the unelected form a proper government perhaps that’s not possible in the capital project where its one for one and all for one. The next [...]
Tags: Association of Teachers and Lecturers, Brendan Barber, ComRes, Dave Prentis, David Cameron, Local Government Association, National Union of Teachers, Strike action
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