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  • UNESCO withdraws its sponsorship of Reporters sans Frontières
    14 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    PARIS, March 12 (PL).- The United Nations Organization for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO) withdrew its sponsorship today from the French group Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF), on the occasion of “Internet Freedom Day.”
    Diplomatic sources from UNESCO told Prensa Latina that the agency made the decision due to the repeated demonstration of a lack of ethics on the part of RSF in its goal of disqualifying a certain number of countries.
    The conduct of RSF does not fit the profile or (…)

  • Managing Myth, Media Manufacturing
    29 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Managing Myth, Media Manufacturing By David Glenn Cox
    The tragic death of Benizeir Bhutto in Rawlipindi Pakistan has moved America’s last manufacturing base into high gear. The American President Bush implies that it was Al Queda and Muslim extremists solely responsible, no investigation needed. Fred Thompson part time Republican presidential candidate and full time idiot came out on the day of Bhutto’s murder blaming Al Queda an Islamists with no proof what so ever.
    Media myth number (…)

  • Slain Pakistani Jounalist`s Widow Killed
    19 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Slain Pakistani Jounalists Widow Killed
    Muhammad Taimoor – Islamabad , 18 Nov. 2007
    Mehrunnisa, the widow of Pakistani journalist Hyatullah has been killed by a bomb planted outside her house in Harmaz, North Waziristan, Pakistan. Her late husband, Hayatullah, was killed last year after reporting a missile attack on his village, which exposed the lies of the Musharraf regime.
    Possibly in an effort to make an example of him, Hayatullah was abducted by unknown armed men and killed after (…)

  • First Banks now Media Companies emerging in widening US financial meltdown (video)
    16 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    First it was the banks that were hiding subprime loans, now attention is about to focus on the media companies that were funded by those same banks.
    – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjGb...

  • IRAQ : "BEYOND THE GREEN ZONE," a new book by DAHR JAMAIL
    15 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Outrage in a Time of Apathy
    by Aaron Glantz
    SAN FRANCISCO - Unlike most U.S. journalists who went to Iraq to cover a war, Dahr Jamail went to try to stop it.In his new book, ‘Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq‘, Jamail writes of volunteering as a rescue ranger at a Denali National Park in the U.S. state of Alaska while news of the invasion and occupation of Iraq played on the radio.
    He had to get out of Anchorage, and in November 2003, (…)

  • Tom Joad Says,
    3 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Tom Joad Says, By David Glenn Cox
    “Maybe, there ain’t no sin and there ain’t no virtue it’s just what folks does.” Tom Joad said this out of his frustration in response to a world that was going to hell and nobody seeming to care. I share Tom’s frustrations with the world.
    I curse George Orwell for his typical British under statement. That our Big Brother would be faster crueler dumber and more incompetent. But that the media would be far more all encompassing and the prettier she gets (…)

  • IRAQ : Conflict Takes Deadly Toll on Journalists, Especially in Iraq
    16 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/16/4559/print/ http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/ Published on Tuesday, October 16, 2007 by The Los Angeles Times
    by Christian Berthelsen
    BAGHDAD - Five Iraqi journalists were killed in separate attacks Sunday, marking one of the deadliest days for reporters covering war-torn country in nearly a year.1016 01
    Four reporters for Iraqi media organizations were reported shot to death in ambushes near Kirkuk in northern Iraq.
    Previously (…)

  • The Media Ignore Credible Poll Revealing 1.2 Million Violent Deaths In Iraq
    9 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Media Ignore Credible Poll Revealing 1.2 Million Violent Deaths In Iraq
    Another aspect of reality that has no place in the corporate media’s painted window was highlighted last Friday with the release (September 14) of a new report by the British polling organization, Opinion Research Business (ORB). ORB is no dissident, anti-war outfit; it is a respected polling company that has conducted studies for customers as mainstream as the BBC and the Conservative Party.
    The latest poll (…)

  • Niger expels French film-maker accused of rebel ties
    8 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Abdoulaye Massalatchi
    Francois Bergeron, Paris, October 6
    NIAMEY, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Authorities in Niger have expelled a French documentary film-maker for suspected links to a Tuareg-led rebellion in the desert north.
    Francois Bergeron, an independent film-maker who has been working on a series of documentaries about Tuareg nomads in Niger, was arrested in August in Agadez, a Saharan trading town at the centre of an 8-month-old Tuareg uprising.
    The Tuareg-led Niger Movement for (…)

  • Darfur: pornography for the chattering classes
    19 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Brendan O’ Neill
    Normally, when one of Britain’s stuffy media watchdogs decrees that some public figure or broadcaster has said something less than honest, it causes a commotion. When the Advertising Standards Authority said earlier this year that Gillian McKeith, TV’s self-styled healthy eating guru, should stop using the title ‘Dr’, the media had a feeding frenzy.
    The Office of Communications’ harsh judgement against Channel 4 over the bullying of Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty on (…)