Mona Baker

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Borzou Daragahi | AP/Salon.com | 40 June 2003 BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — Faced with a freewheeling Iraqi media, the U.S.-led occupation authority is devising a code of conduct for the press, drawing protests from Iraqi journalists who endured censorship under Saddam Hussein and worry for their newfound freedom. Coalition officials say the code is

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Sean Penn | voice4change.org | 31 May 2003 In early October of 2002 — when the radio sputtered and whined with accusations by the Bush Administration declaring a direct link between the terrorist activity of Al Qaeda and the brutal dictator Saddam Hussein; I was sitting beside my 11-year old daughter in a car.

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Chris Hedges | Common Dreams/Rockford Register Star | 21 May 2003 I want to speak to you today about war and empire. Killing, or at least the worst of it, is over in Iraq. Although blood will continue to spill — theirs and ours — be prepared for this. For we are embarking on

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) YOCHI J. DREAZEN | THE WALL STREET JOURNAL | 8 May 2003 MOSUL, IRAQ — The U.S. Army issued orders for troops to seize this city’s only television station, leading an officer here to raise questions about the Army’s dedication to free speech in postwar Iraq, people familiar with the situation said. The officer

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Peter Slevin | Washington Post | 26 May 2003 BAGHDAD — Putting Iraqi television back on the air has proved to be no simple matter, from the electrical outages to the makeshift staff assembled in the postwar chaos. Telephones do not work, and news is hard to confirm. And then there is the dispute

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Saul Hudson | Reuters | 13 May 2003 BAGHDAD (Reuters) – The U.S.-sponsored Iraqi television station began broadcasts Tuesday after complaining of American censorship, including efforts to stop it airing passages from the Koran, the Muslim holy book. At the start of what is being trumpeted as a new broadcasting era in a nation

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Acting Head of News at Channel 4 and others | The Times | 14 May 2003 Sir, The Israeli Foreign Minister, Silvan Shalom, arrives in London on Wednesday and meets Jack Straw the next day. As the main news broadcasters in the UK we wish to express our outrage at the shooting of journalists

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) BBC News | 4 May 2003 The killing of reporters in war zones should be made a new war crime after the death of a British cameraman in Gaza, campaigners say. James Miller, 34, from Devon, was shot in the southern troublespot of Rafah. Initial findings from an Israeli Defence Forces investigation into the

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ken Schubert | Chronicle, Dagens Nyheter | 24 July 1996 When growing up in the Fifties, I read only one comic book: Superman. What most fascinated me wasn’t the hero’s valiant deeds but Lois Lane’s smoldering passion for him and her equally smoldering indifference for her journalist colleague Clark Kent. Thirty years later I

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Dr. Mohammed T. Al-Rasheed | Arab News | 1 May 2003 A crisis in human history is likely to reveal more about the human condition than we might be comfortable with. The war on Iraq is no exception: It has revealed more than the inside of Saddam’s palaces. If anyone ever doubted it, we