From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) YOCHI J. DREAZEN | THE WALL STREET JOURNAL | 8 May 2003 MOSUL, IRAQ -- The U.S. Army issued orders for troops to seize this city's only television station, leading an officer here to raise questions about the Army's dedication to free speech in postwar Iraq, people familiar with the situation said. The officer refused the order and was relieved of duty. The directive came from the 101st Airborne Division's commander, Maj.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Peter Slevin | Washington Post | 26 May 2003 BAGHDAD -- Putting Iraqi television back on the air has proved to be no simple matter, from the electrical outages to the makeshift staff assembled in the postwar chaos. Telephones do not work, and news is hard to confirm. And then there is the dispute over the editorial influence of U.S. occupation authorities. The U.S. ambassador to Morocco, Margaret Tutwiler, was dispatched to Baghdad to polish and package the U.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Saul Hudson | Reuters | 13 May 2003 BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The U.S.-sponsored Iraqi television station began broadcasts Tuesday after complaining of American censorship, including efforts to stop it airing passages from the Koran, the Muslim holy book. At the start of what is being trumpeted as a new broadcasting era in a nation fed on a diet of state propaganda, Baghdad residents with electricity saw the Iraqi flag appear on their screens as a pan-Arab nationalist anthem played.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Acting Head of News at Channel 4 and others | The Times | 14 May 2003 Sir, The Israeli Foreign Minister, Silvan Shalom, arrives in London on Wednesday and meets Jack Straw the next day. As the main news broadcasters in the UK we wish to express our outrage at the shooting of journalists by the Israeli Army. Twelve days ago we lost one of our most highly respected filmmakers when James Miller was shot through the neck as he filmed in the Gaza Strip (report, May 3).
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) BBC News | 4 May 2003 The killing of reporters in war zones should be made a new war crime after the death of a British cameraman in Gaza, campaigners say. James Miller, 34, from Devon, was shot in the southern troublespot of Rafah. Initial findings from an Israeli Defence Forces investigation into the affair indicate that the correspondent was shot in the back, with sources suggesting that he may have been hit by Palestinian gunfire.
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 was just as uncharacteristically captivated by the Superman movies with Christopher Reeve and Margot Kidder.
From 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 now know for a fact that in spite of the “global village” we are supposed to live in, we still more or less build our relationships on fault lines that threaten to shake and thunder at a moment’s notice.
From 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 making a documentary on how Palestinian children are affected by violence, was fired upon unprovoked, witnesses said.
From 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 to artist Ahlam Shibli? The $10,000 Nathan Gottesdiener Prize for an Israeli Artist is awarded annually and includes a solo exhibition at the museum.
From 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 reporter who is married to another colleague, the Financial Times correspondent in Beirut.