Iraqi journalist’s land entitlement
Demands for land in Iraq for “journalist citizens” are just bizarre. Reports the New York Times: “At a recent meeting with the Iraqi journalists’ union…
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France launches aid program for newspapers
The French government will spend several hundred million dollars a year to help France’s newspaper industry cope with declining ad revenue. Measures include tax breaks, increased government advertising and subsidizing free subscriptions for 18-year-olds.
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Collision of journalist/physician ethics
A doctor who wrote an essay in excruciating detail about the death of a Canadian reservist in Afghanistan was censured by the B.C. College of Physicians and Surgeons. A college press release said “Dr. Kevin Lee Patterson has admitted that he was guilty of unethical and unprofessional conduct with respect to breaching patient confidentiality.” Patterson…
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Fund aimed at helping families of murdered fixers
UK-based Frontline Club today posted a video soliciting donations to its Fixers Fund, a fund aimed at helping the families of murdered fixers that was created last year in response to the murder of Ajmal Naqshbandi in Afghanistan…
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NFB launches online screening room
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…
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Crybaby foreign correspondents
“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…
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The trouble with words
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…
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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?