Posts tagged with media

The baying mob at the gates

Adam Ma'anit, Friday, October 31, 2008

When Gordon Brown insists that the illegal invasion of Iraq, which has cost tens of thousands of lives and is paid for by the British taxpayer, is to ensure that ‘the new Iraqi democracy is properly safeguarded’ – where are the 30,000 complaints to the BBC when that that particular obscenity is broadcast on Newsnight?  
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Nigeria: media repression as security forces clamp down on 'guerrilla news agencies'

Sokari Ekine, Friday, October 31, 2008

Accused of ‘sponsoring a guerilla news agency’, Nigerian Blogger, Jonathan Elendu, has been arrested and illegally detained by the ominously named Nigerian SSS.
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Haiti: 1,000 dead, who cares?

Sokari Ekine, Friday, October 3, 2008

A leaked email from a BBC editor highlights the Western media’s lack of interest in Haiti.
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Hack-istan

Louisa Waugh, Tuesday, July 22, 2008

I was starving after work today, so I went straight to the Al-Deira Hotel for a sandwich and a cold glass of melon juice. The Al-Deira is on the seafront, next to the old Gaza harbour: it is an elegant old hotel with swish rooms and a huge terrace overlooking the sea, and the local hang-out for delegates and journalists who come to Gaza. Now that it’s midsummer, the Al-Deira is packed from dusk onwards, but the customers are mostly local.

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