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 Missile Strike Highlights US Role in Iraq Media Killings 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.
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 rockets from two US helicopters on Haifa Street in central Baghdad.
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 held in custody at Ben Gurion airport ever since, while appealing against deportation.
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 ordered the Qatar-based Al Jazeera satellite television network to close its Baghdad office for one month at the weekend.
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 accompanying the doctor, Ghassan Hamdan, as he visited an 80-year-old woman living in an apartment that had been commandeered by the army.
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 Saturday night, Ronstadt took a minute to laud Moore as a "
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 building housing a detention facility for foreigners who have violated US immigration and customs laws.
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 Ministry media and public affairs chief Gideon Meir. In it, Meir charged that, following the detention of journalist Peter Hounan, Israel had learned the BBC was directly and knowingly involved in the interview - in potential violation of Israeli law.
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 new window on the world. Think. Contemplate. Choose. You are free.
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 — including the family of Osama bin Laden — and criticizes Mr.