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This is a very important topic, and an excellent interview. It addresses what may, or may not, be “unintended consequences” very well.
This is a "Must see".
Here's a direct link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK1kWqb5t6U&feature=youtu.beThis is a very important topic, and an excellent interview. It addresses what may, or... more
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In the United States, we supposedly take pride in our freedoms: freedom of speech, freedom of expression and freedom of the press. So why is it that, according to Reporters Without Borders, the United States ranks only 19th in journalistic freedom?
Maybe it’s because eighty journalists have been arrested between September 2011 and April 2012 here in the U.S.
http://veracitystew.com/?p=35878In the United States, we supposedly take pride in our freedoms: freedom of speech,... more
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omg. I cannot believe she said that! And while reporting to CNN's Fredricka Whitfield. Jesus, Susan, was it really NECESSARY to say the complete quote to the fullest?! You could have said, "the F-ing N-word" like a respectable beech. We seriously apologize to our viewers for the profanity used.omg. I cannot believe she said that! And while reporting to CNN's Fredricka... more
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(RT) We had reported on the show that a group of political activists and journalists testified in a New York Court about why they're suing the Obama administration over the National Defense Authorization Act or NDAA. Chris Hedges, author and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter is also one of the plaintiffs; he joins the show to discuss.
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"You can allow for the indefinate military detention, even of US citizens despite of course a Promise by the President that he wouldn't do it!!!"
"I Hate to think of all the other things the POTUS promised he would not do!!!"(RT) We had reported on the show that a group of political activists and journalists... more
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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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STORY HIGHLIGHTS
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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Enter a very unlikely source to teach us about our rights: actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt and the Gregory Brothers. Perhaps, Levitt isn't such an unlikely source to give a civics lesson after all. He's becoming increasingly visible with social and political issues and recently released a hilarious video poking fun at conservatives.
http://veracitystew.com/2012/02/09/note-to-police-my-camera-my-phone-my-rights-video/Enter a very unlikely source to teach us about our rights: actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt... more
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Why have we not heard more about this? This guy needs out support for his willingness to stand up for the rest of us on NDAA.Why have we not heard more about this? This guy needs out support for his willingness... more
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Earlier this month, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) released its much-trailed report ‘presenting new evidence’, said the BBC, ‘suggesting that Iran is secretly working to obtain a nuclear weapon.’ Relying on ‘evidence provided by more than 10 member states as well as its own information’, the IAEA said Iran had carried out activities ‘relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device’. Indeed, informed scepticism in the corporate media has been muted or non-existent - the image of Iran as a ‘nuclear threat’ has yet again been imposed on the public mind. Any reasonable news reader and viewer would find it extremely difficult to question the emphatic declarations offered right across the media ‘spectrum’. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/recent-news/43028-the-iaea-iranEarlier this month, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) released its... more
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Another soft, deep roar. Dr Patterson emerges from a side door, closing it behind her, and joins me on the porch. Koko makes a sign. Dr Patterson translates: “Visit. Do you.
“Oh, sweetheart,” she says to Koko, then turns to me: “She’d like you to go inside.” Over the years Koko has inadvertently become a poster child for the gorilla conservation movement. There are several subspecies of gorilla, and today, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, all are either endangered or critically endangered.
It’s rare that anyone gets to meet Koko up close. I find out just how seldom at the Gorilla Foundation offices when I’m told most of the staff there have only ever been outside her enclosure. A handful of celebrities, Leonardo Di Caprio and Robin Williams included, plus a few business leaders have had the pleasure, but this was to raise her profile or secure donations for the foundation. Few journalists have had the opportunity, and I’m told none has spent as long as I will – an hour-and-a-half – in her company.http://tinyurl.com/6yhoct2Another soft, deep roar. Dr Patterson emerges from a side door, closing it behind her,... more
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Yesterday, I published an appeal which was sent to me as well as other subscribers to the news organization, Voltaire, which was being widely circulated, and which stated that two of its collaborators in Libya's Rixos hotel had been threatened with death. The Rixos Hotel is where most foreign journalists 'hang out' , but have been unable to exit the hotel due to heavy combat in and around the area.
We also were misinformed when we were told that Qaddafi's sons had been captured and then released. It appears now, 24 hours after some premature celebration of Saif al-Islam's so called capture, that he is alive and well and that Qaddafi's forces still hold pockets of the capital. However, one fact remains: no one can ascertain the colonel's whereabouts.
As of this writing, we have seen rebel forces enter and occupy Qaddafi's Bab al-Aziziya military compound, a residence/fortress that comprises no less than 20 miles of underground tunnels leading to various parts of the city. It is likely that one of these tunnels would lead to the Rixos Hotel, which, at times, has served as an informal command or communications center, with state-run TV broadcasting from its studio there or members of the Qaddafi family occasionally holing up.
http://www.examiner.com/foreign-policy-in-national/is-lybia-s-rixos-hotel-qaddafi-s-end-gameYesterday, I published an appeal which was sent to me as well as other subscribers to... more
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– German theologian Martin Niemoller was a staunch anti-Communist who supported Hitler’s rise to power — at first. He later became disillusioned, however, and led a group of German clergymen opposed to Hitler. In 1937 Niemoller was arrested for the crime of “not being enthusiastic enough about the Nazi movement” and later was sent to concentration camps. Rescued in 1945 by the Allies, he became a leading post-war voice of reconciliation for the German people.– German theologian Martin Niemoller was a staunch anti-Communist who supported... more
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Israel may ban journalists aboard planned aid flotilla for 10 years and also seize their equipment, official says.Israel may ban journalists aboard planned aid flotilla for 10 years and also seize... more
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This is a challange...for some people to work on their character developement...and user reputation. Tell me how you see the future, in the next 3 months....and how will that shape the next 3 years. Post your ideas with story maker.This is a challange...for some people to work on their character developement...and... more
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On Tuesday, May 10, 2011 The Steering Committee of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press announced that they elected new officers, re-elected nine members and welcomed a newly elected member.On Tuesday, May 10, 2011 The Steering Committee of the Reporters Committee for Freedom... more
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Four New York Times journalists who were reported captured by pro-government forces in Libya last week have been released, the newspaper reported Monday.
They are in the Turkish Embassy in Tripoli, Turkey's ambassador to Libya, Levent Sahin Kaya, told CNN. The Times reported Monday that they were released into the custody of Turkish diplomats who were accompanying them out of Libya.
The newspaper identified the journalists as Anthony Shadid, its bureau chief in Beirut, Lebanon, and a two-time Pulitzer winner for foreign reporting; Stephen Farrell, a reporter and videographer who was kidnapped by the Taliban and rescued by British commandos in 2009; Tyler Hicks, a staffer who is based in Istanbul and has served as an embedded journalist in Afghanistan; and photographer Lynsey Addario, who has covered the Middle East and Africa.
In a statement Monday, the newspaper said: "We are grateful that our journalists have been released, and we are working to reunite them with their families. We have been told they are in good health and are in the process of confirming that. We thank the Turkish, British, and U.S. governments for their assistance in the release. We also appreciate the efforts of those in the Libyan government who helped secure the release this morning."
The four journalists entered the rebel-controlled eastern region of Libya via the Egyptian border without visas to cover the civil war in the country, the Times said. They were detained sometime after Tuesday morning, the last time editors said they had been in touch with them.
The paper said that after it reported losing contact, the Gadhafi government pledged that if the four had been detained by the government's military forces, they would be located and released unharmed.Four New York Times journalists who were reported captured by pro-government forces in... more
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We would love to hear from those of you seeking a platform to express yourselves and by doing so, augment traffic to your own blog or web site.We would love to hear from those of you seeking a platform to express yourselves and... more
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How sad and fu##ed up is that audience to have a mentality that locking up journalist is acceptable or even worthy of applauding.
Ann Coulter needs no introduction and despite having a terribly hoarse voice — due to whichever bar she went to last night — Coulter made sure to march on through her speech. Her address gave the usual red meat for the college crowd, but also gave some back handed support to, of all people, Mubarak.
Coulter announced that she was happy and surprised to see liberals had “suddenly” discovered their love for freedom in Egypt. She noted that they didn’t seem as eager to bring democracy to Iraq, even though Saddam Hussein would eventually be deposed and would emerge from his spider-hole looking “like Charlie Sheen after a weekend.”
But now liberals are “shocked and appalled” to find a dictator in the Middle East.
She provided a defense of Mubarak as a pro-Israel ally of America. She suggested some other reasons why liberals oppose him: “he shut down Google; do not get between a liberal and his internet porn”
She also referenced similar critiques about how the Democrats responded to Iran’s revolution: “The voting [in Iran] was over 100%, oh sorry I was thinking about Al Franken’s election in Minnesota”
Her summation on why there is support for Egypt’s revolution? “Now a loyal American ally comes under attack, and they are burning for democracy.”
But it wasn’t all foreign policy. On the bi-partisan seating arrangement for the State of the Union:
“It explains why they were sold out of t-shirts saying ‘I’m with stupid’”
But the best of Coulter’s routine has always been the Q&A session, where overeager college students get to ask questions of their idol. Some paraphrased and selected highlights:
Q: Where do you get your energy?
A: Reading the New York Times gins you up, keeps you going.
Q: Why does the GOP think that free and fair elections can exist in Iraq, not Egypt?
A: Perhaps it will, it’s not as clear as in Iraq. And we had American servicemen to make sure. When Iraqis were waving their purple fingers after having voted you couldn’t find more long faces on the Democrats, including John Kerry.
Q. What is more important to American values? Being friends with Israel or knowing that there are jailed journalists [in Egypt]?
A. I think there should be more jailed journalists. [Huge applause from audience.]
Q. Why don’t we have real conservatism? (ie. Why do we need Scott Brown?)
A. Conservatives don’t get rewarded at the ballot box, but I think the Tea Party will change that.
Q. What do you think about the field for 2012?
A. “I don’t like to attack Republicans” but “If we don’t run Chris Christie, Romney will be the nominee and we’ll lose.” [And Coulter does not like that outcome.] “I warned you about McCain!”
Q. Who is your least favorite Democrat?
A. That’s like asking my least favorite disease! (She settles on cancer.)
Q. Who’s your favorite Democrat, if you have one?
A. “I can’t hate Jim Webb, he served out country honorably.”
Q. Is there any hope me as getting a job as a journalism major?
A. Take “College Republican” off your resume.
The last question was about GOProud’s participation in CPAC. On this point, Coulter actually wanted to give a longer and less off-the-cuff answer, giving an answer that was surprisingly forthright about why she supported their inclusion.
Coulter first took pride in having spoken to GOProud at their convention and took credit getting GOProud to drop their gay marriage platform.
She then argued that the goal should be to not let liberals “co-opt” gays, or as she put it: “They want to use gays as a cat’s paw to attack the family.”
And why do liberals want to use gays to break up families by promoting gay marriage? “They want religion destroyed. They want family destroyed so you have loyalty directly to the state!” (This got a huge applause from the audience)
Coulter made sure to shore up her credentials on this point: “I am as born again evangelical Christian as they come, AND I am friend of the gays!”
For Coulter, she felt that the most important thing was not letting gays becoming “identified” as gay:
“You have all of culture telling gays you should be liberal, just like you had all of culture telling women they had to be liberal.”
She also has a suggestion for the GOProud motto: “Gays without the sodomy.”
“I’m not without sin, none of us are” Coulter added near the end of her remarks.
http://www.frumforum.com/coulter-there-should-be-more-jailed-journalistsHow sad and fu##ed up is that audience to have a mentality that locking up journalist... more
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The Aurelia Fierros' Report │ Column
A golden rule of journalism prevents any serious correspondent from becoming part of the story. Unless, of course, extraordinary circumstances take place and the maker of the report ends up turning into the subject of it, inevitably. Such has been the case in Egypt’s coverage. (Follow the link above to be taken directly to the site.)The Aurelia Fierros' Report │ Column
A golden rule of journalism prevents... more
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By Eric W. Dolan
Friday, February 4th, 2011 -- 10:26 am
CNN reporter Anderson Cooper admitted Thursday he was "a little bit scared" for his safety after being repeatedly attacked by supporters of embattled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
Cooper and his crew were violently attacked by pro-Mubarak forces Wednesday as they tried to make their way through the streets of Cairo. A number of other journalists have reportedly been attacked by pro-Mubarak mobs as well.
"I can't tell you where we are, frankly for our own safety," Cooper said while sitting in a dimly lit room.
"Systematically, we have seen journalists attacked... we would like to be showing you pictures, live pictures, of what's happening in Liberation Square right now, but we can't do that because our cameras have systematically been taken down through threats, through intimidation, through actual physical attacks."
"I don't mind telling you I am a little bit scared, because we frankly don't really know what the next few hours will hold," he added. "And I think there's a lot of people who are scared tonight in Egypt."
ABC's Christiane Amanpour faced similar treatment Wednesday. While trying to talk to Mubarak supporters, she was threatened and told to turn back. Upon retreating, she had the windshield of her car broken with a rock.
"There's a real anti-Western reporter sentiment there," ABC's Robin Roberts noted Thursday. "Is there still that sense?"
"The pro-Mubarak supporters have been against the journalists," Amanpour replied. "Partly this is because the state television, some of the local press, the state press, has been blaming journalists.
"And a statement from the Foreign Ministry was issued overnight saying, this uprising against Mubarak, is, quote, a foreign conspiracy, led by international journalists. So, those people who been aggressive towards us are not the anti-Mubarak demonstrators. They're the pro-regime thugs and agitators that have been sent in to disrupt the protests."
In recent days, reporters have become targets in Egypt. Western journalists have been roughed up by pro-Mubarak demonstrators, and reporters from around the world have been arrested or detained by Egyptian security forces.
As late as Thursday, there were reports that the Egyptian Army had begun to round up journalists, alleging it was for their own protection. Two correspondents from The New York Times were reportedly detained.
The Washington Post also reported having reporters arrested Thursday.
The following video was broadcast on CNN, Feb. 3, 2011 and uploaded by MoxNews.
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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/02/anderson-cooper-a-bit-scared-attacks-egypt/By Eric W. Dolan
Friday, February 4th, 2011 -- 10:26 am
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