Mona Baker

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ewa Jasciewicz | The Guardian | 26 August 2004 Life for journalists wanting to report from Israel has just become harder. I was detained two weeks ago by the Israeli authorities while trying to enter the country in order to complete a number of commissions for the British magazine Red Pepper. I have been

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) IFJ | 9 August 2004 The International Federation of Journalists has criticised the interim government of Iraq over a month-long ban on the Arab satellite channel Al-Jazeera, which it says is an act of “unacceptable and illogical censorship that casts a shadow over hopes for a new era of press freedom.’ The interim government

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Yoav Stern | Haaretz | 12 August 2004 Israel Defense Forces troops in the West Bank city of Nablus detained three British Broadcasting Corporation journalists and a Palestinian doctor at gunpoint for three hours Thursday before letting them go, BBC officials and the doctor said. The journalists, a television crew from the BBC, were

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) CBC News Online | CBC News Online | 20 July 2004 LAS VEGAS – Boos and bedlam ensued at a Linda Ronstadt concert in Las Vegas on the weekend after the singer praised controversial filmmaker Michael Moore and his new movie Fahrenheit 9/11. Before launching into her encore at the Aladdin Casino & Resort

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Elena Lappin | The Guardian | 5 June 2004 When writer Elena Lappin flew to LA, she dreamed of a sunkissed, laid-back city. But that was before airport officials decided to detain her as a threat to security … Somewhere in central Los Angeles, about 20 miles from LAX airport, there is a nondescript

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Jewish Telegraph | Jewish Telegraph | 5 June 2004 THE BBC is locked in a new row with the Israeli government after being accused of unacceptable conduct over this week’s televised interview with Mordechai Vanunu. The Beeb’s Jerusalem bureau chief Andrew Steel has been hauled over the coals in a two-page letter from Foreign

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) David Wilmsen | TBS | May 2004 The United States Government’s new Arabic-language satellite television channel claims to be bringing something new to the Arab world. The message is impossible to miss, as it is incessantly hyped in the clumsily cued station promos: If you look, you must surely see; a new horizon; a

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Jim Rutenberg | New York Times | 5 May 2004 WASHINGTON, May 4: The Walt Disney Company is blocking its Miramax division from distributing a new documentary by Michael Moore that harshly criticizes President Bush, executives at both Disney and Miramax said Tuesday. The film, “Fahrenheit 911,” links Mr. Bush and prominent Saudis —

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Fiona O’Brien | Reuters/Yahoo! | 8 April 2004 BAGHDAD (Reuters) – The brother of a Spanish journalist killed by U.S. troops in Baghdad on April 8 last year laid flowers in the Iraqi capital in his memory on Thursday and demanded those responsible be brought to account. Jose Couso, a cameraman with Spanish television

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) National Union of Journalists | 8 April 2004 Journalists’ organizations worldwide marked the anniversary of the shelling of the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad by US forces with a fresh call for the United States to release vital information about what happened in a number of incidents in which journalists and media staff were killed.