IFJ Demands Inquiry into Death of Journalist in US Missile Strike

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) IFJ | 13 September 2004 The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today backed protests by journalists in the Palestinian territories over the killing yesterday of Mazen Al-Tomaizi, a television journalist, when a United States helicopter fired on a crowd in Baghdad after insurgents attacked a military vehicle. New IFJ Demand for Inquiry As Deadly

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"I'm a Journalist! I'm Dying! I'm Dying!": One of Baghdad's Bloodiest Days

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) PATRICK COCKBURN | CounterPunch | 13 September 2004 “I am a journalist. I’m dying, I’m dying,” screamed Mazen al-Tumeizi, a correspondent for the Arabic television channel al-Arabiya, after shrapnel from a rocket fired by an American helicopter interrupted his live broadcast and slammed into his back. Twelve others were killed and 61 wounded by

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A Personal Bias

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

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IFJ Accuses Iraq of “Unacceptable and Illogical Censorship” Over Ban on Al-Jazeera

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

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IDF detains three BBC journalists in Nablus

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

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Disney Forbidding Distribution of Film That Criticizes Bush

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 —

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