From 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 he was fired on Monday. Norr was suspended without pay after his arrest.
From 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 single American kid in uniform, let alone the thousands of Iraqis who have died, and my condolences and prayers go out to all of them.
From 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 Thursday, after he was among more than 1,300 people arrested last week for blocking public streets on the first morning after the Iraq (news - web sites) war started.
From 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 the international covenant on civil and political rights, including press freedom, especially in the occupied territories.
From 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" after watching the news on Christmas Day and will play it in Austin, Texas on Saturday at a concert to benefit Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) National Union of Journalists (NUJ) | 28 January 2004 The Hutton report’s criticisms of Andrew Gilligan and the BBC are “unfounded”, the NUJ said today. The union’s General Secretary Jeremy Dear said that blaming the BBC and its reporter for the trouble his broadcasting caused the government was “a threat to independent journalism.” Jeremy Dear said: “I have spoken to Andrew Gilligan today and I believe the report does him and his story a grave injustice.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Joe Wakim | Herald Sun | 18 February 2004 It is flabbergasting to hear your own words about anti-Arab films echoed by someone else. Especially when that someone else is a Jewish films-maker. Rabbi Marvin Hier, recipient of two Academy Awards as co-producer of Genocide (1981) and The Long Way Home (1997), is also leading the public campaign against Mel Gibson's new movie The Passion of Christ.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Rupert Cornwell |The Independent | 3 December 2003 For years they have been taking it on the chin, from motor-mouth talk-show hosts, take-no-prisoner conservative authors and all-knowing Republican pundits. Now liberal Democrats are fighting back, with best-selling books, a new Washington think-tank and probably their own radio network. The network idea has failed before. But in today's acutely polarised US political climate, and the "
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Iason Athanasiadi |The Guardian | 17 November 2003 Yvonne Ridley, the former Express journalist who was kidnapped by the Taliban in Afghanistan and subsequently converted to Islam, has been sacked as editor of al-Jazeera's English-language service. "Until I know why I've been fired, or given written notice, I can't say anything other than that I'm completely devastated and puzzled," Ridley told the Gulf News. Sources close to Ridley said she intended to fight her dismissal and had already been in contact with lawyers.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Michelle Goldberg | Salon.com | 1 December 2003 Bill O'Reilly wants its nonprofit status revoked. Republican National Committee chairman Ed Gillespie sees it as part of the "Democrat plan to subvert campaign finance laws." House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's office plays phone pranks on its staffers. A piece in David Horowitz's FrontPage Magazine worries: "It could bypass the mainstream media, sneak around campaign spending limits, and become its own powerful channel for Leftist communication, indoctrination and mobilization.