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Veteran war correspondent Marie Colvin of the Sunday Times has been killed in Syria on Wednesday along with French photojournalist Remi Ochlik.
Colvin, an American citizen, was a renowned reporter who had covered countless conflicts over 30 years and wore a distinctive eye patch after she was wounded in Sri Lanka.
She was voted Foreign Correspondent of the Year in the 2010 British Press Awards.
Ochlik was a 28-year-old photographer represented by the IP3 agency, which he co-founded in Paris, who quit his studies aged 20 to report on Haiti and has since covered many of the recent upheavals in the Arab world.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the two journalists killed were an American woman and a French man, and the Syrian opposition said the journalists' deaths were likely the fault of the regime.
"Homs is a very, very dangerous place," Bassma Kodmani, spokeswoman for the Syrian National Council, the most representative Syrian opposition umbrella group, told reporters in Paris.
"I see no reason why opposition members would shoot at journalists," she said. "It is, therefore, most probably related to the regime."
Last week New York Times correspondent Anthony Shadid died in the violence-wracked country and last month French television reporter Gilles Jacquier was killed in Homs when a shell exploded amid a group of journalists covering protests in the city during a visit organised by the Syrian authorities.
Listen to Colvin's last report from Homs
Source: AFP, CNN
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New York Times reporter dies in Syria
By the CNN Wire Staff
updated 11:55 PM EST, Thu February 16, 2012
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Anthony Shadid poses at the Turkish Embassy in Tripoli, Libya, on March 21, 2011, after being held by pro-government militias.
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Anthony Shadid had reported from the Middle East for nearly two decades
He appears to have died of an asthma attack, the newspaper says
He was the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes
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(CNN) -- Anthony Shadid, who won two Pulitzer Prizes for his reporting from Iraq, died Thursday while reporting in eastern Syria, apparently of an asthma attack, The New York Times said.
He was 43.
The newspaper said it was not immediately known how or where he died. Tyler Hicks, a Times photographer who was with Shadid, carried his body over the border to Turkey.
Hicks said Shadid, who was carrying medication for his asthma, displayed symptoms Thursday morning, when they joined guides on horseback for the trip out of the country. The animals may have triggered the asthma, Hicks said.
He had suffered an asthma attack the week before, when they entered the country and met with guides on horseback, Hicks told The Times.
The Syrian government, which limits international journalists' access to the country, had not been told by The Times that Shadid was there, the newspaper said. He had been inside Syria for a week collecting information for a story on the Syrian resistance, it added.
Shadid, who was fluent in Arabic, had covered the Middle East for nearly 20 years as a reporter for The Washington Post, The New York Times and The Associated Press.
Shadid had been working on a book about his family's ancestral home in Lebanon. He traveled there after years of covering conflict to rebuild his grandmother's home, according to his website. "He found a story of hope, healing, but perhaps most powerfully, loss, in a Middle East whose future rests in understanding its past," it said. The book, "House of Stone," is to be published next month by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
He wrote two other books, "Legacy of the Prophet: Despots, Democrats and the New Politics of Islam" and "Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War."
In an interview last December on NPR's "Fresh Air," Shadid recalled entering without a visa the Syria ruled by President Bashar al-Assad.
"I've done things that maybe I wouldn't have done in hindsight, and this maybe would have been one of them," he said. "It was scarier than I thought it would be. I had had a bad experience in Libya earlier in the year, [but] I did feel that Syria was so important, and that story wouldn't be told otherwise, that it was worth taking risks for. But the repercussions of getting caught were pretty dire."
After several days in Hama, he crossed safely back across the border.
"I don't think I'd ever seen something like what I saw in Syria," he said. "You're dealing with a government that's shown very little restraint in killing its own people to put down an uprising. ... And I got to spend a lot of time with [the activists] because I spent a lot of time in safe houses. And it reminded me of an old story in Islamic history, when the Muslim armies are crossing to Gibraltar. And the general who was leading them burned the ships after they crossed into Spain. And the idea was there was no turning back. And that story, I felt, resonated [with] almost every conversation I had."
He did not always emerge unhurt from his reporting. In 2002, while working for The Boston Globe, he was shot in the shoulder in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
Last year, Shadid and Hicks and two other Times journalists, Stephen Farrell and Lynsey Addario, were arrested by pro-government militias in Libya and held for more than a week, during which all were physically abused. Their driver, Mohammad Shaglouf, died.
In its 2004 citation, the Pulitzer Board praised "his extraordinary ability to capture, at personal peril, the voices and emotions of Iraqis as their country was invaded, their leader toppled and their way of life upended." In 2010, the board praised "his rich, beautifully written series on Iraq as the United States departs and its people and leaders struggle to deal with the legacy of war and to shape the nation's future."
His last story for The Times, on Libya, ran on February 9. At 1,600 words, it was long, which was typical for him, the newspaper said. "It was splashed on the front page of the newspaper and the home page of the Web site, nytimes.com, which was also typical," it said.
"Anthony died as he lived — determined to bear witness to the transformation sweeping the Middle East and to testify to the suffering of people caught between government oppression and opposition forces," wrote Jill Abramson, executive editor of the Times, in an e-mail to the newspaper's staff.
Shadid leaves his wife and two children.
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Two minutes on the internet shows you how alive the movement is. The Occupy Wall Street Journal relates all the latest news across the country about the movement. And will take submissions and updates.Two minutes on the internet shows you how alive the movement is. The Occupy Wall... more
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Yesterday, all across America, copy editors who are in too many cases inexperienced, poorly trained and swamped with more responsibility than one person can reasonably manage, did what they usually do. They took the headline at face value and ran the press release pretty much as-is.
And what landed in front of the public, flying under the banner of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Seattle Times, and, the gods help us, the PBS News Hour, was unfiltered crisis PR put together by hacks paid not to think about the best interests of the public, but about the financial and political agendas of their client. Put in the terms of my courtroom analogy above, it’s like we’ve made the defense attorney the judge and jury, as well.Yesterday, all across America, copy editors who are in too many cases inexperienced,... more
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In a “What would you do*” article on January 13, 2012, Andrew Adler spoke openly of long denied, yet best known secret in the US capital, when calling on Israeli Mossad agents operating and spying on US soil, to “order a hit” on US president.
Unlike an unscripted impromptu speech, Alder’s incitement in the Atlanta Jewish Times to kill the President was a well thought of editorial. The “hit” option was repeated in two paragraphs and reasserted in third.
Now after it became public, it presents America with a taste of Zionists’ self-righteous arrogance. Apparently, no one, including America, can possibly satisfy Israel’s rapaciousness.
The Zionist writer was troubled the weak US economy and the “newly implemented [Pentagon] military budget” cuts might curb the US ability to finance future proxy wars on behalf of Israel.
In his article, the owner of the Atlanta Jewish Times was addressing Israeli loyalists; hence and unlike Zionist writing in mainstream US media, he had no need to befuddle his war mongering message with fabrications like “preserving” US interests or defending America …etc.
The Jewish publisher was disappointed with the President not because Obama was not doing enough to protect America’s interest or securing Atlanta (the publisher’s city) from Iran or Syria. The writer did not care about economic hardships American taxpayers suffer bankrolling Israel’s proxy wars.
Alder was livid for US [Obama] was more concerned with “… preserving a healthy, worldwide economic climate” than fighting wars “… to preserve Israel’s existence
In a “What would you do*” article on January 13, 2012, Andrew Adler, owner and publisher of the Atlanta Jewish Times, suggested that Israel should consider three options, one of which “order a hit on a president [Obama] in order to preserve Israel’s existence.”
*The “What would you do” article can be accessed at http://www.jamalkanj.com/AJT-Document.php.In a “What would you do*” article on January 13, 2012, Andrew Adler spoke... more
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The owner and publisher of the Atlanta Jewish Times, Andrew Adler, who suggested Israel should assassinate U.S. President Barack Obama, has resigned from his post, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported on Monday.
Adler, who has since apologized for his article, listed three options for Israel to counter Iran’s nuclear weapons in an article published in his newspaper last Friday. The first is to launch a pre-emptive strike against Hamas and Hezbollah, the second is to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities and the third is to “give the go-ahead for U.S.-based Mossad agents to take out a president deemed unfriendly to Israel in order for the current vice president to take his place and forcefully dictate that the United States’ policy includes its helping the Jewish state obliterate its enemies.”The owner and publisher of the Atlanta Jewish Times, Andrew Adler, who suggested... more
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I’m not sure who made the decision about the comics page. Ms. Simmons is the editor, but the choice could have been that of the features editor or a combination of people. It seems as if someone saw the cartoon as racist, racially offensive, or just patently offensive because of the line “they all really do look alike to me.” We all understand that the phrase in question can be highly charged and insensitive.I’m not sure who made the decision about the comics page. Ms. Simmons is the... more
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Then, from bad logic he shifts to chicanery, as my research failed to establish where “Carl Sagan (among others) thought that the answer is to be found, tragically, in the final variable: the high probability that advanced civilizations destroy themselves.” Would Sagan the evidence-driven scientist make such specific predictions about absent civilizations about which no one knows anything?Then, from bad logic he shifts to chicanery, as my research failed to establish where... more
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Barack Obama, bias, journalism, Katie Couric, Mainstream media, manipulators, Media bias, Misrepresentation, Mitt Romney, MSM, news, Newspaper, Newt Gingrich, Omnipotent Poobah, Politics, Press, Reporter, Romney Flip Flop, Sarah Palin, Sharron AngleBarack Obama, bias, journalism, Katie Couric, Mainstream media, manipulators, Media... more
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2011 has been a bad year for working journalists. Layoffs increased nearly 30 percent, leaving a record low of 41,000 newspaper journalists trying to tell stories that matter.2011 has been a bad year for working journalists. Layoffs increased nearly 30 percent,... more
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In this series on land grabbing, I hope to shed light on how Africa, where land has been characterised as being plentiful and cheap, is becoming the new breadbasket for developing countries.
http://www.simbarusseau.com/kenya-indigenous-samburu-land/In this series on land grabbing, I hope to shed light on how Africa, where land has... more
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Are bloggers journalists or not? Thanks to the recent court case things are muddier than ever. An extremely helpful (and intensely detailed) analysis from Frank Balsinger...Are bloggers journalists or not? Thanks to the recent court case things are muddier... more
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Within the Little Tokyo district of downtown Los Angeles, eclectic Matsumoto's 2nd Street Jazz weekly event showcase presents Jazz, Blues, Hip Hop, Rock n' Roll, Soul and R & B artists, as well as open mic opportunities and DJ turntable battles... http://actorschecklist.com/wordpress/?p=160Within the Little Tokyo district of downtown Los Angeles, eclectic Matsumoto's... more
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The Guardian has continued its war on WikiLeaks with three new attacks over 48 hours—five days before Julian Assange’s final extradition appeal judgement in the High Court and a UK Parliamentary debate and vote on extradition abuses (both Monday, December 5). While it is often counter-productive to divert resources to dealing with PR attacks head-on, we provide here a revealing window into the behind-the-scenes realities that WikiLeaks has to deal with every day as a result of its high profile. While many attacks come from "traditional" enemies — the organizations WikiLeaks has exposed — others come from opportunists trying to work an easy socio-political sector — apparently saying what they believe these powerful enemies would like to be said, in the hope of preferment or relief in other areas. Others still, in fear of their reputations or the legal process, seek to whitewash past opportunism before natural moral or legal redress. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/free-stuff/43033-guardian-pr-war-against-wikileaks-qwikileaks-secrets-and-liesq-guardian-documentaryThe Guardian has continued its war on WikiLeaks with three new attacks over 48... more
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Wicker explained the mission of journalism: “We stand against privilege and we must question power.” Few understood as well as he the necessity of holding the powerful accountable for their words and deeds.
Now, for Wicker and tens of thousands of journalists who began plying this trade before the arrival of the Age of Internet Experts On Everything, this has been our calling. It’s what journalists must do in exchange for First Amendment protection against government interference.Wicker explained the mission of journalism: “We stand against privilege and we... more
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Tom Wicker, Times Journalist, Dies at 85
By ROBERT D. McFADDEN
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Tom Wicker, one of postwar America’s most distinguished journalists, who wrote 20 books, covered the assassination of President John F. Kennedy for The New York Times and became the paper’s Washington bureau chief and an iconoclastic political columnist for 25 years, died on Friday at his home near Rochester, Vt. He was 85.
The cause was apparently a heart attack, said his wife, Pamela Wicker.
On Nov. 22, 1963, Mr. Wicker, a brilliant but relatively unknown White House correspondent who had worked at four smaller papers, written several novels under a pen name and, at 37, had established himself as a workhorse of The Times’s Washington bureau, was riding in the presidential motorcade as it wound through downtown Dallas, the lone Times reporter on a routine political trip to Texas.
The searing images of that day — the rifleman’s shots cracking across Dealey Plaza, the wounded president lurching forward in the open limousine, the blur of speed to Parkland Memorial Hospital and the nation’s anguish as the doctors gave way to the priests and a new era — were dictated by Mr. Wicker from a phone booth in stark, detailed prose drawn from notes scribbled on a White House itinerary sheet. It filled two front-page columns and the entire second page, and vaulted the writer to journalistic prominence overnight.
Nine months later, Mr. Wicker, the son of a small-town North Carolina railroad conductor, succeeded the legendary James B. Reston as chief of The Times’s 48-member Washington bureau, and two years later he inherited the column — although hardly the mantle — of the retiring Arthur Krock, the dean of Washington pundits, who had covered every president since Calvin Coolidge.
In contrast to the conservative pontificating of Mr. Krock and the genteel journalism of Mr. Reston, Mr. Wicker brought a hard-hitting Southern liberal/civil libertarian’s perspective to his column, “In the Nation,” which appeared on the editorial page and then on the Op-Ed Page two or three times a week from 1966 until his retirement in 1991. It was also syndicated to scores of newspapers.
Riding waves of change as the effects of the divisive war in Vietnam and America’s civil rights struggle swept the country, Mr. Wicker applauded President Lyndon B. Johnson and Congress for passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but took the president to task for deepening the American involvement in Southeast Asia.
He denounced President Richard M. Nixon for covertly bombing Cambodia, and in the Watergate scandal accused him of creating the “beginnings of a police state.” Nixon put Mr. Wicker on his “enemies list,” but resigned in disgrace over the Watergate cover-up. Vice President Spiro T. Agnew upbraided Mr. Wicker for “irresponsibility and thoughtlessness,” but he, too, resigned after pleading no contest to evading taxes on bribes he had taken while he was governor of Maryland.
The Wicker judgments fell like a hard rain upon all the presidents: Gerald R. Ford, for continuing the war in Vietnam; Jimmy Carter, for “temporizing” in the face of soaring inflation and the Iranian hostage crisis; Ronald Reagan, for dozing through the Iran-contra scandal, and the elder George Bush, for letting the Persian Gulf war outweigh educational and health care needs at home. Mr. Wicker’s targets also included members of Congress, government secrecy, big business, corrupt labor leaders, racial bigots, prison conditions, television and the news media.
In the 1970s, Mr. Wicker, whose status as a columnist put him outside the customary journalistic restrictions on advocacy, became a fixture on current-events television shows and addressed gatherings on college campuses and in other forums. Speaking at a 1971 “teach-in” at Harvard, he urged students to “engage in civil disobedience” in protesting the war in Vietnam. “We got one president out,” he told the cheering crowd, “and perhaps we can do it again.”
A Prison Uprising
Mr. Wicker had many detractors. He was attacked by conservatives and liberals, by politicians high and low, by business interests, labor leaders and others, and for a time his activism — crossing the line from observer to participant in news events — put him in disfavor with many mainstream journalists. But his speeches and columns continued unabated.
His most notable involvement took place during the uprising by 1,300 inmates who seized 38 guards and workers at the Attica prison in upstate New York in September 1971. Having written a sympathetic column on the death of the black militant George Jackson at San Quentin, Mr. Wicker was asked by Attica’s rebels to join a group of outsiders to inspect prison conditions and monitor negotiations between inmates and officials. The radical lawyer William M. Kunstler and Bobby Seale, chairman of the Black Panther Party, also went in, and the observers took on the role of mediators.
Mr. Wicker, in a column, described a night in the yard with the rebels: flickering oil-drum fires, bull-necked convicts armed with bats and iron pipes, faceless men in hoods or football helmets huddled on mattresses behind wooden barricades. He wrote: “This is another world — terrifying to the outsider, yet imposing in its strangeness — behind those massive walls, in this murmurous darkness, within the temporary but real power of desperate men.”
Talks broke down over inmate demands for amnesty and the ouster of Russell G. Oswald, the state corrections commissioner. Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller rejected appeals by the observers to go to Attica, and after a four-day standoff, troopers and guards stormed the prison. Ten hostages and 29 inmates were killed by the authorities’ gunfire in what witnesses called a turkey shoot; three inmates were killed by other convicts, who also beat a guard to death. Afterward, many prisoners were beaten and abused in reprisals.
Mr. Wicker wrote a book about the uprising, “A Time to Die” (1975). Most critics hailed it as his best book, although some chided him for sympathizing with the inmates. “Attica,” a television movie starring Morgan Freeman as a jailhouse lawyer and George Grizzard as Mr. Wicker, was made by ABC in 1980.
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The writer, journalist and contrarian Christopher Hitchens has died at the age of 62 after being diagnosed with an oesophageal cancer in June 2010. Vanity Fair, for which he had written since 1992 and was made contributing editor, marked his death in a memorial article posted late on Thursday night. Since we know you all loved the Hitch we are repeating the brilliant tribute programme 'Stephen Fry and friends on the life, loves and hates of Christopher Hitchens' this weekend at the following times:
Friday 16 December 10pm
Saturday 17 December 2:30pm
Sunday 18 December 6:30pm
Here is a who's who guide to all of Christopher's friends who featured in the programme.
Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens was born April 13, 1949 to is an Anglo-American author and journalist. His books, articles and essays have made him a prominent public intellectual and a staple of talk shows and lecture circuits. He has been a columnist and literary critic at Vanity Fair, Slate, The Atlantic, World Affairs, The Nation, Free Inquiry and a variety of other media outlets. He was named one of the world's "Top 100 Public Intellectuals" by Foreign Policy and Britain's Prospect.
In 2010 Hitchens was diagnosed with esophageal cancer.
Below are some of Hitchen's best moments ever caught on camera - please add your own favourite Hitch clips below.
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In "Under the Knife Abroad," "Vanguard" correspondent Adam Yamaguchi travels to India, Mexico and Barbados to investigate one industry flourishing in these tough economic times: medical tourism. Americans are increasingly being forced to seek medical care overseas, often life or death procedures, because they can't afford it here at home. Is healthcare America's next industry to be outsourced to foreign lands?
Watch the premiere of "Under the Knife Abroad," Monday, November 14 at 9/8c on Current TV.
"Vanguard" is Current TV's no-limits documentary series whose award-winning correspondents put themselves in extraordinary situations to immerse viewers in global issues that have a large social significance. Unlike sound-bite driven reporting, the show's correspondents, Adam Yamaguchi, Christof Putzel and Mariana van Zeller, serve as trusted guides who take viewers on in-depth real life adventures in pursuit of some of the world's most important stories.
For more, go to http://current.com/vanguard.In "Under the Knife Abroad," "Vanguard" correspondent Adam... more
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