A colleague of Rove argues that the president’s adviser is hiding behind the First Amendment and that reporters should not protect him.
Counterpoint: Forget Confidentiality, Out Rove By Bill Israel, Editor & Publisher Posted on July 6, 2005, Printed on July 6, 2005 http://www.alternet.org/story/23385/
In 99.9 percent of cases I know, journalists must not break the bonds of appropriate confidentiality, to protect their ability to report, and to defend the First Amendment. I’ve (...)
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Rove’s colleague says he’s hiding behind the First Amendment and reporters should not protect him
7 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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Journalist killed after investigating US-backed death squads in Iraq
2 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentOn June 24, Yasser Salihee, an Iraqi special correspondent for the news agency Knight Ridder, was killed by a single bullet to the head as he approached a checkpoint that had been thrown up near his home in western Baghdad by US and Iraqi troops. It is believed that the shot was fired by an American sniper. According to eyewitnesses, no warning shots were fired.
The US military has announced it is conducting an investigation into Salihee’s killing. Knight Ridder has already declared, (...) -
Letter to Dana Milbank about the Downing Street Memo and Corporate Media Complicity in War Crimes
21 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
30 commentsTo: milbankd@washpost.com, Sketch@washpost.com, ombudsman@washpost.com
Mr. Milbank---
Regarding Friday’s WashingtonSketch ("Democrats Play House To Rally Against the War"): what an offensive, intelligence-insulting, childish rant, totally lacking in professionalism and propreity. Give me a break.
First of all, the Washington Post--- as well as much of the mainstream press--- seems more than a bit confused about the Downing Street Memo. (In this age where apparently the words (...) -
WHAT’S NEW?
20 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
8 commentsBy Peter Fredson
Every morning I turn on TV to see what is happening in the world. I keep doing this despite the fact that I rarely learn what is really happening. Let me explain.
At the beginning of the “news hour” there are 5 to 7 advertisements for toilet deodorants, toothpaste, soft-drinks, suppositories, male enhancement pills, cars new and used, and self-promotional ads for the news services. Then the “anchors” come on, exchange pleasantries, mention the latest movie or (...) -
There is no Justification for the Silence on DSM- Corporate Media complicit in war crimes
18 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
3 commentsOne of the features of the newfound media interest in the Downing Street Memo is a profound defensiveness, as reporters scramble to explain why it received so little attention in the U.S. press. But the most familiar line—the memo wasn’t news because it contained no "new" information—only raises troubling questions about what journalists were doing when they should have been reporting on the gulf between official White House pronouncements and actual White House intentions.
There are two (...) -
THE CIA AND THE MEDIA
14 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsHow America’s Most Powerful News Media Worked Hand in Glove with the Central Intelligence Agency and Why the Church Committee Covered It Up BY CARL BERNSTEIN
In 1953, Joseph Alsop, then one of America’s leading syndicated columnists, went to the Philippines to cover an election. He did not go because he was asked to do so by his syndicate. He did not go because he was asked to do so by the newspapers that printed his column. He went at the request of the CIA.
Alsop is one of more than (...) -
Paramount importance of absolutely honest journalism to combat the evil of embedded journalism
12 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
This is in the context of the exquisitely fresh thought of the day that the neo-con Bush American empire is all evil, rather the mother-in-chief of all evils as expressed by Mr Shiraz. I simply appreciate it and would invite the attention of the world conscience and all honest intellectuals and journalists of the world to the recently published article of the most leading journalist of Britain John Pilger.
The article was published in the NEW STATESMAN MediaLens: www.medi-alens.org and (...) -
Public Confidence in Newspapers, TV News Falls to All-Time Low
11 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentNEW YORK Public trust in newspapers and television news continued to decline in Gallup’s annual survey of "public confidence in major institutions" in the United States, reaching an all-time low this year.
Those having a "great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in newspapers dipped from 30% to 28% in one year, the same total for television. The previous low for newspapers was 29% in 1994. Since 2000, confidence in newspapers has declined from 37% to 28%, and TV from 36% to 28%, (...) -
In shying away from 2002 Downing Street Memo, a timid press shirks its duty
10 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsThe coverage, or lack of coverage, of a story regarding notes from a meeting of British intelligence officials dubbed the "Downing Street Memo’’ is quite a mystery.
If fact, coverage has been curiously meager, although the contents of the memo were reported in early May by the Sunday Times of London. The intervening weeks have seen the American media focus on runaway brides (Jennifer Wilbanks), runaway mouths (Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean) and a runaway Congress (...) -
John Conyers And Deep Throat
9 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
3 commentsJohn Conyers And Deep Throat Margaret Kimberley June 09, 2005 Deep Throat was the anonymous source who helped Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein break the Watergate story. For the past 30 years the identity and in some cases the very existence of Deep Throat has been called into question until Mark Felt recently revealed himself to be the mystery man.
There have been many opportunities for eager reporters to bring down the current White House occupant, but no one (...)