Oppression is not a point of view
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Adam Tanner, Reuters | Yahoo! | 28 March 2003 SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A San Francisco Chronicle reporter suspended after getting arrested in an anti-war rally said on Friday that he felt unfairly treated and that no one should expect complete objectivity from a journalist. The Chronicle suspended technology reporter Henry Norr, 57, effective
» Read moreProject Award Announcement The Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies (CTIS) at the University of Manchester has recently been awarded a large Research Grant by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC, standard route). From 31 March 2016, CTIS members Professor Mona Baker (Principal Investigator) and Dr Luis Pérez-González (Co-investigator) will work with Professor Peter Pormann (Lead Co-investigator, Classics and Graeco-Arabic Studies at the University of Manchester) and
» Read moreInterview by Dr Peng Tianxiao, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China, on 25 September 2015
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Khalid Amayreh | english.aljazeera.net | 21 December 2003 The international press organisation “Reporters Sans Frontiers” (RSF) recently lambasted Israel for abusing and harassing Palestinian and foreign journalists covering the Intifada against Israeli occupation. The Paris-based group did recognise that Israel generally respected “the local (Jewish) media freedom of expression”, but criticised Israel for violating
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Reuters/Yahoo! | 31 December 2003 DALLAS (Reuters) – Country music icon Willie Nelson has written a Christmas song with an edge — a protest against the war in Iraq that he hopes will stir passions in those who hear it. Nelson, 70, told Reuters on Wednesday he wrote “Whatever Happened to Peace on Earth”
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) National Union of Journalists (NUJ) | 28 January 2004 The Hutton report’s criticisms of Andrew Gilligan and the BBC are “unfounded”, the NUJ said today. The union’s General Secretary Jeremy Dear said that blaming the BBC and its reporter for the trouble his broadcasting caused the government was “a threat to independent journalism.” Jeremy
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Joe Wakim | Herald Sun | 18 February 2004 It is flabbergasting to hear your own words about anti-Arab films echoed by someone else. Especially when that someone else is a Jewish films-maker. Rabbi Marvin Hier, recipient of two Academy Awards as co-producer of Genocide (1981) and The Long Way Home (1997), is also
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Rupert Cornwell | The Independent | 3 December 2003 For years they have been taking it on the chin, from motor-mouth talk-show hosts, take-no-prisoner conservative authors and all-knowing Republican pundits. Now liberal Democrats are fighting back, with best-selling books, a new Washington think-tank and probably their own radio network. The network idea has failed
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Iason Athanasiadi | The Guardian | 17 November 2003 Yvonne Ridley, the former Express journalist who was kidnapped by the Taliban in Afghanistan and subsequently converted to Islam, has been sacked as editor of al-Jazeera’s English-language service. “Until I know why I’ve been fired, or given written notice, I can’t say anything other than
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Michelle Goldberg | Salon.com | 1 December 2003 Bill O’Reilly wants its nonprofit status revoked. Republican National Committee chairman Ed Gillespie sees it as part of the “Democrat plan to subvert campaign finance laws.” House Majority Leader Tom DeLay’s office plays phone pranks on its staffers. A piece in David Horowitz’s FrontPage Magazine worries:
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