Canadian documentaries at your fingertips: That’s the promise of the newly-launched NFB Screening Room, “meant to make the NFB’s collection of films accessible to all those who want to see them,” according to the site blog…
“Spoiled crybabies:” that’s how Daniel Seaman, director of Israel’s Government Press Office described foreign journalists who couldn’t get into Gaza in a statement issued on Sunday…
Ethan Bronner writes in the New York Times of his troubles conveying meaning in a land where everything means too much, and something different to each side. An excerpt of…
Eric Calderwood, a researcher of “Muslim-Christian relations in the medieval Mediterranean” writes in the Boston Globe about his take on Al-Jazeera…
From Reuters: “South Korean prosecutors indicted a blogger on Thursday who had warned of financial doom for the country with critics saying he was targeted because his gloomy forecasts upset the government battling an economic downturn.” Prosecutors said the blogger known as “Minerva” hurt the local currency by posting “false information.”
“Chinese TV Censors Part of Address by Obama.” This would be funny if it were not so sad. Did the Chinese-government owned media operating in Canada censor the speech also?
Reporters Without Borders called on the Israeli military to investigate and explain exactly how a 16-storey building in Gaza City that houses several international and Arab news organisations came to be hit by an explosion. (Reports here by AFP, NY Times, Reuters.)
A cat paid an unexpected visit to the set of Germany’s leading meteorologist Joerg Kachelmann’s live weather forecast recently. The cat wandered in and…
The headline “Joe the Plumber to become war correspondent” screams out for a laff track. But it’s not a comedy line: “Joe The Plumber is putting down his wrenches and picking up a reporter’s notebook,” reports the Associated Press from Ohio. “The Ohio man who became a household name during the presidential campaign says he…
One claim Israel has on the friendship of the West is that it is a rare democracy in a troubled region, with a commitment to honour human rights — including the press rights with which we’re most concerned in this space. In Gaza, now, Israel is dishonouring both this commitment and those democrats who are…