Month: November 2015

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Helen Thomas | San Francisco Chronicle |  28 November 2003 Washington — THE RAID by the U.S.-appointed Iraqi officials on an Arab television network bureau in Baghdad and the ban on its broadcasts hardly fits my idea of how to spread democracy in the Middle East. Isn’t that the first thing dictators do —

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Alan Read | The Times Higher Education Supplement | 4 April 2003 In this time of war, we must reclaim from celebrities our right to make significant gestures and voice opinions in the public arena, argues Alan Read The cliché “theatre of war” has been tripping off strategists’ lips in recent days as though

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ciar Byrne | The Guardian | 11 November 2003 The BBC has created a new senior editorial post to advise on its Middle East coverage, as the corporation continues to come under fire for alleged anti-Israeli bias. Malcolm Balen, a former editor of the BBC’s Nine O’Clock News, has been appointed “senior editorial adviser”

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Tom Leonard | Daily Telegraph | 11 November 2003 The BBC has appointed a “Middle East policeman” to oversee its coverage of the region amid mounting allegations of anti-Israeli bias. Malcolm Balen, a former editor of the Nine O’Clock News, has been recruited in an attempt to improve the corporation’s reporting of the Middle

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Bernard Josephs | Jewish Chronicle | 14 November 2003 The BBC’s appointment this week of a top broadcasting figure to oversee its Mideast coverage was welcomed by Israeli and Jewish community leaders as a recognition of their protests over alleged anti-Israeli bias. In and unprecedented move, the corporation name Malcolm Balen, a former editor

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) NUJ | 13 October 2003 Fifteen of Britain’s top trade union leaders have issued a joint call for BBC Director General, Greg Dyke, to reinstate two sacked journalists. The union leaders, who include Sir Bill Morris, Tony Woodley, Billy Hayes and Michael Leahy have called for the BBC to enter talks with the National

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Stuart Wilk | Associated Press Managing Editors | 12 November 2003 Mr. Larry Di Rita Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs The Pentagon Dear Mr. Di Rita: We are writing to protest actions being taken by U.S. troops that appear intended to discourage journalists from covering the continued military action in Iraq.

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) SLOBODAN LEKIC | AP/Yahoo | 12 November 2003 BAGHDAD, Iraq – With casualties mounting in Iraq, jumpy U.S. soldiers are becoming more aggressive in their treatment of journalists covering the conflict. Media people have been detained, news equipment has been confiscated and some journalists have suffered verbal and physical abuse while trying to report

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Dima Tareq Tahboub | The Guardian | 4 October 2003 When my husband decided to go to Baghdad, he knew that I would protest. He told me that I was exaggerating the risks; that there was nothing to be afraid of because he was a reporter, an objective witness, neither on this nor that

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) | 8 September 2003 The International Federation of Journalists today condemned the arrest by Spanish officials of an Al-Jazeera Television journalist for alleged ties to al Qaeda members in what it warned “looks like developing into an international witch-hunt” against Arab-language media. On September 5, Tayseer Alouni, an Al-Jazeera