Source: turkishdailynews.com.tr
Just as a Turkish Daily News interview with Yusuf Alatas, head of the Human Rights Association (IHD), explicitly implied that there was still a long way to go for the improvement of human rights and freedom of expression in the country, an ongoing trial against a prominent writer …
Source: arabnews.com
Soon after the invasion of Iraq, President Bush launched a well-funded PR campaign to soften Arab and Muslim world criticism of American foreign policy.
Source: editorandpublisher.com
Ann Coulter is no stranger to controversy, but her latest adventures have several newspapers questioning whether carrying her syndicated column is worth the trouble. The Shreveport (La.) Times is currently leaving the decision of whether or not to keep Coulter up to its readers.
Oldfogey mentioned the need for press passes, so i created a few! PLEASE JUST SAVE THESE AND EDIT THEM, DONT MOOCH NEWSVINE'S BANDWITH The font for the text is ludicida grande bold, same as newsvine uses on its logo. These are not real, just little toys if you will.
Source: thewhotour.com
TheWhoTour.com has 50 passes to the Who press event in New York City on July 13th! Enter here to win a pair of passes to the Who press event at in New York City. Exact location details will be provided to winners by email.
Source: csmonitor.com
Controversial stories often expose government wrongdoing; officials have been highly critical of the media's publication of details about US intelligence activities in the war on terror.
Source: newyorker.com
Firm in the belief that the press can be gored for easy political gain, the Bush Administration has set about reducing the status of the media (specifically, what it sees as the left-wing, Eastern-establishment media) to that of a pesky yet manageable interest group, nothing more …
Source: moneylaundering.com
The Bush administration has repeatedly bragged about its efforts and self-proclaimed success tracking terrorist financing since the September 11 attacks. The government described its quest to catch financiers in numerous public documents, reports and Capitol Hill testimonies.
Source: time.com
When the press runs a story the White House claims is harmful to security, the word disloyalty inevitably creeps into the conversation. The line between dissent and disloyalty, between harmful revelations and vital ones, is murky. Often we never really know.
Source: article.nationalreview.com
From the article: The self-congratulatory mood that permeates the Buffalo News story is really just the latest manifestation of an attitude that goes back to Vietnam.
Source: expatica.com
From the page: -- Polish officials want German authorities to criticise a newspaper article published in a left-leaning German daily which they argue offends Poland's right-wing President Lech Kaczynski. --
Source: MediaMatters.org
On June 29, several Fox News media figures suggested that the U.S.
Source: dailykos.com
The short story is that what passes for the conservative braintrust these days -- a collection of repulsive little scabs no smarter than their own shoes -- has seized upon an article in the New York Times' Travel section describing the small town of St.
Source: mediamatters.org
This week, the conservatives declared war.
Source: BBC News
A great entrepreneur and a very dubious media mogul. We should introduce further legislation to prevent someone of his ilk owning both a national newspaper and a national broadcaster.
Source: cnn.com
I really hate riding this old horse of a story in the ground, but we as a nations have to take notice of how the Press is being silenced. If you look at the snap poll taken by CNN, you will see 60% of responds approve of the NY Times publishing the story.
Source: nytimes.com
From the page:
Source: truthdig.com
Robert Scheer: The Bush administration’s jihad against newspapers that reported on a secret program to monitor the personal-banking records of unsuspecting citizens is more important than the original story.
Source: huffingtonpost.com
Alex Koppelman: You know, it's funny -- for a gang that claims exclusive right to tell the rest of us how we should display our love for this country, they sure hate the basic freedoms that have made America what it is.
To give this context, much of what I'm writing here derives from a discussion of an AP article found here. Of particular note are the following lines, quoted from two distinct posts.
Source: themercury.co.za
SAfm radio presenter John Perlman's on-air revelation that the SABC has blacklisted certain commentators who cannot be relied upon to sing the praises of the ANC government is sadly not surprising.
Source: alertnet.org
From the page: -- A leading journalist is shot dead, a newspaper is shut down and close to a dozen people are rounded up over links to an opposition Web site -- and all this in Gambia, home to Africa's human rights commission. --
Source: za.today.reuters.com
South Africa's public broadcaster faced fresh criticism over perceived political bias after reports it banned some critics of President Thabo Mbeki from its airwaves.
Source: thenation.com
If President Bush had stood on the steps of the White House with a megaphone when he set out to sell the Iraq War, he might have convinced a few people about the imminent threat posed by Saddam Hussein.
Source: washingtonpost.com
Robert Kaiser: These are new circumstances, but to a reporter who has been watching the contest between press and government for four decades, what isn't new here seems more significant than what is.