Month: November 2015

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Fiashra Gibbons | The Guardian | 23 August 2003 Jewish pressure groups are calling on a publisher to withdraw a children’s book about a Palestinian boy growing up amid the intifada on the West Bank. A Little Piece of Ground, by the multi-award-winning author Elizabeth Laird, is a fictional account of how a 12-year-old

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) | 18 August 2003 The International Federation of Journalists has called for an independent and open inquiry into the killing yesterday afternoon of a cameraman in Iraq by US troops, only days after the Federation accused the Pentagon of a “cynical whitewash” over a previous attack on media in

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Reuters | CNN | 17 August 2003 BAGHDAD, Iraq (Reuters) — Reuters cameraman Mazen Dana, an award-winning journalist who had covered some of the world’s hottest spots, has been shot dead while filming near a U.S.-run prison on the outskirts of Baghdad. Eyewitnesses said Dana, 43, was shot by soldiers on an American tank

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Rober Fisk | Independent/Information Clearing House | 30 July 2003 30 July 2003: (The Independent) A day after Paul Wolfowitz, the US Deputy Defence Secretary, claimed that the Arabic Al-Jazeera television channel was “inciting violence” and “endangering the lives of American troops” in Iraq, the station’s Baghdad bureau chief has written a scathing reply,

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) BBC News | BBC News | 14 July 2003 The editor of a daily Irish language newspaper has said the Northern Ireland man held by Israeli police was working as their correspondent. The man – who is in his 40s – was arrested at the weekend by Israeli security forces reportedly acting on information

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Gørill Hus and Guri Wiggen | commondreams.org | 3 July 2003 OSLO – If the reality in Iraq is one thing and the reporting of it remains another, it is because much of the media wants it that way, say two leading journalists who have been reporting the ‘other’ side of the Iraq story.

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Anat Balint | Haaretz | 29 June 2003 Israel declared over the weekend that it is cutting off ties with the BBC to protest a repeat broadcast on non-conventional weapons said to be in Israel. The program was broadcast for the first time in March in Britain, and was rerun Saturday on a BBC

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Joanne Levine | The Washington Post | 25 June 2006 In a country’s hinterlands, a distant region seldom visited by outsiders, a television crew investigates why so many residents are fleeing the area. When local officials catch wind of the crew’s presence, they begin interrogating people the journalists interviewed, and pressure others not to

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Linda S. Heard | Counterpunch | 23 November 2005 On Tuesday, Britain’s Daily Mirror published an explosive story riddled with implications concerning the character and intent of the US president when pursuing his so-called ‘war on terror’, and perhaps, shedding light on the bombing of Al Jazeera’s offices in both Kabul and Baghdad. Twenty-four