Oppression is not a point of view
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
» Read moreFrom 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
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Arnon Regular and Amos Harel | Haaretz | 3 May 2003 Israel Defense Forces troops demolishing a home suspected of concealing an arms-smuggling tunnel in the southern Gaza Strip shot dead a British television cameraman late Friday, military officials and Palestinian witnesses said. James Miller, who was in the flashpoint refugee camp of Rafah
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Dana Gilerman | Haaretz | 1 May 2003 A controversial award-winning artist, accusations of censorship, and a resignation. And the Tel Aviv Museum says it wants to keep politics out of art. What did members of the Gottesdiener Prize committee at the Tel Aviv Museum expect last year when they awarded the prestigious prize
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Robert Fisk | CounterPunch | 29 April 2003 What is a journalist’s life worth? I ask this question for a number of reasons, some of them–frankly–quite revolting. Two days ago, I went to visit one of my colleagues wounded in the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq. Samia Nakhoul is a Reuters correspondent, a young woman
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Associated Press | Editor & Publisher Online | 25 April 2003 SAN FRANCISCO — (AP) A San Francisco Chronicle reporter who was arrested while participating in an anti-war demonstration last month said he has been fired for falsifying his timesheet. Henry Norr, who covered technology and wrote a weekly column for the Chronicle, said
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Michael Moore | MichaelMoore.com | 7 April 2003 Dear friends, It appears that the Bush administration will have succeeded in colonizing Iraq sometime in the next few days. This is a blunder of such magnitude — and we will pay for it for years to come. It was not worth the life of one
» Read moreFrom 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 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”
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