Blood journalism
Eric Calderwood, a researcher of “Muslim-Christian relations in the medieval Mediterranean” writes in the Boston Globe about his take on Al-Jazeera…
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Indicting the messenger
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.”
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Censoring Obama
“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?
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Israeli bombing of media building
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.)
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Cat visits live weather broadcast
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…
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Joe the Reporter (but does he have a sixpack?)
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…
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Israeli censorship
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…
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Media ban denied for sentencing by aboriginal healing circle
The aboriginal “healing circle” that sentences Christopher Pauchay will be open to the media. (Pauchay pleaded guilty last fall to criminal negligence, after he drunkenly left his young daughters outside to freeze to death in a Saskatchewan blizzard.) Wrote judge Barry Morgan: “Despite the request made by some members of the community, referenced in the…
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Online comments about Israel too hot for G&M
The Globe and Mail has closed comments on stories about Middle East issues, from the Gaza invasion by Israel to news that an Ontario union is seeking to bar Israeli academics from province’s universities if they do not explicitly condemn Israeli action in Gaza. Jim Sheppard, Executive Editor of globeandmail.com, explains:“To our readers: globeandmail.com policy…
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Does good journalism include anger and confusion?
While prepping for her classes, Vancouver journalism instructor and municipal reporter Frances Bula decided to share a quote on her blog.It’s from Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher by Stephen Brookfield: “Significant learning and critical thinking inevitably induce an ambivalent mix of feelings and emotions, in which anger and confusion are as prominent as pleasure and…