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.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Fiona O'Brien | Reuters/Yahoo! | 8 April 2004 BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The brother of a Spanish journalist killed by U.S. troops in Baghdad on April 8 last year laid flowers in the Iraqi capital in his memory on Thursday and demanded those responsible be brought to account. Jose Couso, a cameraman with Spanish television Telecinco and Reuters cameraman Taras Protsyuk, a Ukrainian, were killed when a U.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) National Union of Journalists | 8 April 2004 Journalists’ organizations worldwide marked the anniversary of the shelling of the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad by US forces with a fresh call for the United States to release vital information about what happened in a number of incidents in which journalists and media staff were killed. On April 8th 2003 more than 150 journalists based at the Palestine Hotel came under fire from US forces.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Reuters/Yahoo! | 22 March 2004 LONDON (Reuters) - An American soldier who killed Reuters cameraman Mazen Dana in Iraq was justified in opening fire, a U.S. army report said on Monday. The report, made public seven months after Dana died, found that the soldier's "decision to fire at Mr. Dana, though tragic and regrettable, was justified based on the information available to him at the time.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Al Jazeera.Net | 19 March 2004 A group of Arab journalists outraged after US soldiers shot dead two colleagues walked out of a press conference held by US Secretary of State Colin Powell in protest. A representative of the Iraqi media read out a statement on Friday at the start of the news conference, condemning Thursday's killing of the two journalists from the Dubai-based al-Arabiya television channel, as Powell and Iraq's US occupying adminstrator Paul Bremer looked on.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Heather Wokusch | YellowTimes | 16 February 2004 If the first casualty of war is truth, then the War on Terror has dealt a body blow to those trying to get at the bottom of the story: journalists. The press watchdog Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF) has noted a sharp jump in attacks on journalists internationally, and not just in high-profile cases such as the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.