From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Gørill Hus and Guri Wiggen | commondreams.org | 3 July 2003 OSLO - If the reality in Iraq is one thing and the reporting of it remains another, it is because much of the media wants it that way, say two leading journalists who have been reporting the 'other' side of the Iraq story. The level of self-censorship in the media has risen not just during the Iraq war but also since 9/11, says Robert Fisk from The Independent newspaper published in Britain and John Pilger, Australian broadcaster and film-maker.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Anat Balint | Haaretz | 29 June 2003 Israel declared over the weekend that it is cutting off ties with the BBC to protest a repeat broadcast on non-conventional weapons said to be in Israel. The program was broadcast for the first time in March in Britain, and was rerun Saturday on a BBC channel that is aired all over the world. The boycott decision was made by Israel's public relations forum, made up of representatives from the Prime Minister's Office, the Foreign Ministry and the Government Press Office.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Joanne Levine | The Washington Post | 25 June 2006 In a country's hinterlands, a distant region seldom visited by outsiders, a television crew investigates why so many residents are fleeing the area. When local officials catch wind of the crew's presence, they begin interrogating people the journalists interviewed, and pressure others not to talk. Russia? Uzbekistan? China? No. This incident took place in North Dakota, in the heart of the United States.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Linda S. Heard | Counterpunch | 23 November 2005 On Tuesday, Britain's Daily Mirror published an explosive story riddled with implications concerning the character and intent of the US president when pursuing his so-called 'war on terror', and perhaps, shedding light on the bombing of Al Jazeera's offices in both Kabul and Baghdad. Twenty-four later, the Mirror and all other British papers had been subjected to a "
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Mark Townsend | The Observer | 24 April 2005 Leaked report returns Gaza Strip death of British film-maker to the spotlight Israeli soldiers stand accused this weekend of 'lying' and tampering with evidence in an attempt to obstruct an inquiry by military prosecutors into the death of British film-maker James Miller, according to internal army documents seen by The Observer. A 79-page report by the chief lawyer of the Israeli army's southern command into the shooting of Miller in the Gaza Strip details how soldiers questioned over the killing changed earlier testimonies.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) HERB KEINON | The Jerusalem Post | 21 April 2005 Israeli officials expressed dismay this week that BBC reporter Orla Guerin, who has come under sharp attack for what some perceive as an anti-Israeli bias in her coverage, will receive an MBE honor from the British government for "outstanding service to broadcasting." Diaspora Affairs Minister Natan Sharansky, who last year wrote a formal letter of complaint to the BBC over Guerin's coverage, said it is a pity that a lack of anti-Semitism was not a criterion for the award.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) MARIA SANMINIATELLI | AP/Yahoo! | 6 March 2006 ROME - The freed Italian hostage wounded by American troops at a checkpoint in Baghdad shortly after her release said in an article Sunday that her Iraqi captors had warned her U.S. forces "might intervene." Giuliana Sgrena, who writes for the communist newspaper Il Manifesto, described how she was wounded and Italian intelligence officer Nicola Calipari was killed as she was celebrating her freedom on the way to the airport.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Reporters Without Borders | 15 January 2004 Reporters Without Borders called today for the reopening of the enquiry into who was really responsible for the US Army's "criminal negligence" in shooting at the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad on 8 April 2003 and causing the death of two journalists - Ukrainian cameramen Taras Protsyuk (of Reuters news agency) and Spaniard José Couso (of the Spanish TV station Telecinco).
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Sascha Meinrath | UCIMC.ORG | 7 October 1994 FBI took the hard drives of Global IMC servers in the USA and the UK. It appears that a court order was issued to Rackspace (Indymedia's service provider with offices in the US and in London) to physically remove the hard drives from Global Indymedia servers (backup servers are now in place). Rackspace was given no time to defend against the order before it was acted upon and turned over the hard drives, both in the US and the UK.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Marc Sage | Scotsman.com | 22 September 2004 Cat Stevens should never have been detained and deported from the United States, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw told his American counterpart tonight. Mr Straw, in New York for meetings at the UN, told Secretary of State Colin Powell that the action “should not have been taken”. The singer, who converted to Islam and changed his name to Yusuf Islam in the 1970s, was branded a terrorist supporter by the US Government.