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Ludovic Kennedy, 1919-2009

Electric Dragon — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:29:08 -0800

Sir Ludovic Kennedy has died at the age of 89. Kennedy was a journalist, broadcaster and long standing campaigner against miscarriages of justice and the death penalty and for euthanasia. Kennedy's most famous investigation was into the 10 Rillington Place murders. Kennedy's book of that name showed up numerous flaws in the police inquiry and trial of Timothy Evans, which had led to Evans' conviction and execution. This work was highly significant in the halting and later the abolition of the death penalty in Britain. He was also active in investigating the miscarriages of justice related to IRA terrorism cases of the 70s and 80s: the Guildford Four, the Maguire Seven and the Birmingham Six. In later years, Kennedy was best known as a campaigner for the right to euthanasia, and chaired the Voluntary Euthanasia society (now Dignity In Dying). On the lighter side, he hosted a series of interviews with Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling (aka Peter Cook) called "A Life In Pieces", and interviewed Jim Hacker several times in "Yes Minister".

Reporter Catches Bullet

Surfin' Bird — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:15:28 -0800

Turkish journalists were caught in a war zone while on the job. The Turkish team was in between the town of Gori and breakaway South Ossetia where Georgian and Russian forces have collided. The video is from the inside of the car being shot at with automatic weapons.

They're all gone

never used baby shoes — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 12:20:09 -0800

Veteran sportscaster Jim McKay dies. The host of ABC's Wide World of Sports for forty years, Jim also called the 1980 Miracle on Ice. However, he will probably be best remembered for being thrust into the role of news journalist during the 1972 Munich Games.

Access Denied

Blazecock Pileon — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:17:11 -0800

In the same spirit as the Open Net Initiative and Committee to Protect Bloggers that both track global internet filtering, Sami ben Gharbia's Access Denied Map tries to track the blocking of sites like Blogger, Flickr, YouTube and others by governments, as well as efforts by activists to keep them accessible or to challenge their blockage.

Halberstam's last column.

nevercalm — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 06:14:23 -0800

David Halberstam's last column, The History Boys - Politics and Power, is in this month's Vanity Fair magazine. In other news, the student driving him at the time of his death, Kevin Jones, has been charged with vehicular manslaughter. (Previously)

Still Missing : Alan Johnston

burr1545 — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 04:19:54 -0800

Alan Johnston ,the only western journalist (BBC) in Gaza is still missing. Despite calls from var ious quar ters , local protests , a first ever meeting between the UK gov and Hamas, and unprecedentated 'global media' co-operation. He seems as far from his family as ever.

London mayor suspended

atticus — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 06:34:26 -0800

London's mayor suspended for four weeks for comparing a Jewish journalist to a concentration camp guard.

Jill Carroll update

raaka — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 23:00:30 -0800

CSMonitor's Jill Carroll update As there isn't really much news about Jill Carroll, this blog has become mainly about the issues surrounding the Carroll abduction. What is Islam's perspective on foreigners? How does rampant kidnapping effect journalists? The last 'update' is about a poster of Carroll hung from Rome's city hall. Which makes me think two things: there isn't much news about Carroll's situation; why in the hell hasn't a US city hung a poster of Carroll?

Remembering Louise Bryant

digaman — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 15:55:37 -0800

She interviewed Mussolini. She wrote plays for Eugene O'Neill's Provincetown Players. She got letters from Trotsky. Freud and Helen Keller were in her address book. She married journalist John Reed, and Diane Keaton played her in Reds. And she was nearly forgotten. Now, Louise Bryant is remembered. More here and much more here.

Bill Hemmer is so hot

panoptican — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 22:48:19 -0800

Talking Heads. Not until I stumbled upon this site did I figure out what it was the the Internet was missing. I've wanted to have Sanjay on my desktop for so long. And now that I have the ability to vote for which "journalist" I think is the hottest, I can finally feel as if I am participating in these news programs. That is Democracy, after all.

CIA leak/press on trial

lilboo — Thu, 07 Oct 2004 14:07:27 -0800

Times Reporter Is Held in Contempt in Leak Inquiry

I'm no fan of Judith Miller, but can someone please explain to me why she is on trial (and Robert Novak isn't?)

Another Day in Baghdad.

insomnia_lj — Mon, 13 Sep 2004 09:07:22 -0800

Yesterday, Mazen al-Tomasi, a reporter for Al-Arabiya, was broadcasting live from the scene of a carbombed Bradley Fighting Vehicle, which had attracted a crowd of locals. While making his report, a sudden noise came from behind Mazen.
Two Apache helicopters flew in overhead, and one of them started attacking the crowd, with their guns. The crowd, which included several small children, tried to run away. A helicopter launched a missile...
Mazen al-Tomasi was struck by shrapnel from the blast on live television. His cameraman, Seif Fouad, fell down from the force of the explosion. Mazen's blood spattered across the camera's lens and the screams of the dying and injured were heard. Mazen screamed to Seif for help: "Seif, Seif! I'm going to die. I'm going to die."
Seif grabbed Mazen and started to pull him out of harm's way. Suddenly, another missile was launched, and Seif was hit by shrapnel in the leg and abdomen. Seif, seriously wounded, watched his friend Mazen die soon afterwards. Twelve were killed, 61 wounded in the attack.
A US military spokesman said the helicopters opened fire after coming under attack from the crowd, and that they fired to prevent looters from stripping the vehicle. That said, the vehicle was burning too badly to be stripped, and the television footage showed no evidence of any shooting from the ground, or indeed, any armed Iraqis whatsoever. The full video of this is was seen by millions of Arabs and is apparently something that Reuters has the rights to -- Saif works for Reuters -- but something tells me that it will never make the evening news.

Bloggers arrested in Iran

hoder — Wed, 08 Sep 2004 13:25:36 -0800

Iran: Blogger/Journalists arrested over banned Reformist websites (stop.censoring.us)

Eric Alterman on Abu Ghraib and the media.

skallas — Wed, 26 May 2004 15:54:17 -0800

Eric Alterman on Abu Ghraib and the media. Alterman: And how pathetic is it that the only cable network really grappling with the media's failure is Comedy Central? Let's give the last word to the Daily Show's incomparable Stephen Colbert: "The journalists I know love America, but now all anybody wants to talk about is the bad journalists--the journalists that hurt America.... Who didn't uncover the flaws in our prewar intelligence? Who gave a free pass on the Saddam-Al Qaeda connection? Who dropped Afghanistan from the headlines at the first whiff of this Iraqi snipe hunt? The United States press corps, that's who."

A Canadian reporter looks at Texas healthcare.

gimonca — Mon, 08 Dec 2003 20:35:12 -0800

A Canadian reporter looks at Texas healthcare.

In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car.

skallas — Wed, 12 Nov 2003 06:01:33 -0800

"In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car." Analyzing the writings of NYTimes' Thomas Friedman. via atrios

Arafat on our side?

daveg — Thu, 03 Apr 2003 13:35:59 -0800

Arafat on our side? Other than this story (Guardian), I haven't seen much coverage of Yasser Arafat's behind the scenes efforts to protect Western journalists in Iraq. Possibly not the act of the evil man that he's often portrayed as?

Ignorance Is Truth.

JollyWanker — Mon, 31 Mar 2003 07:42:50 -0800

"Now America is reappraising the battlefield, delaying the war, maybe a week and rewriting the war plan. The first plan has failed because of Iraqi resistance. Now they are trying to write another plan." Seems patently obvious, no? But tell Iraqi state television that and suddenly you're speaking from "a position of complete ignorance," according to the White House.

Peter Arnett, highly respected, Pulitzer Prize winner and the first journalist to interview Osama Bin Laden on film, wouldn't back down the last time a network caved into craven submission at hands of the American military, and he's been sacked by NBC/MSNBC for again refusing to do so. There's no First Amendment case, obviously, and no real surprise that the military would be exerting pressure to maintain control over information, but does the firing of high-profile Arnett for the repeating the obvious increase anybody's confidence that we're hearing anything resembling the truth?

If music be the food of love, then play on

Carlos Quevedo — Wed, 26 Feb 2003 01:55:51 -0800

Busker Dü: You're short of money. You're not afraid to make a fool of yourself. You have no pride. You have a musical instrument to abuse. Well - that, apparently, is easy. At least if you're a Guardian journalist. But what else can a feller do these days to drum up that old "Buddy, Can You Spare A Dime?" spirit?

Journalist, Security

bkdelong — Thu, 06 Feb 2003 09:25:15 -0800

E-terrorism over-rated. Journalist Brian McWilliams exposes the media whoring of fellow "reporter" Dan Verton and "security intelligence" company mi2g. He shows just how easy it is to fake a "terrorist" organization online and finally gives some exposure to the amount of FUD that gets spread around by some reporters and a lot of comp. sec companies simply to make money. Though I don't think Verton gets it:

"Although the hoax this week taught me a valuable lesson about the nature of information on the Internet, it's less clear that McWilliams' scheme has done anything to advance the understanding of cyberterrorism."

Um...yeah Dan. He showed just how half-assed a job some people do in actually verifying sources and Internet-based information. Kudos to your anti-FUD efforts, Brian.

Virtual Journalist

bobo123 — Wed, 22 Jan 2003 17:01:12 -0800

Virtual Journalist, experience the challenges of working in the liberal media. Fun but the politics are a bit heavy handed. [flash required]

dejah420 — Wed, 04 Sep 2002 13:26:20 -0800

Sunday, Bloody Sunday... On the night of 30 January 1972, Murray Sayle was sent by the Sunday Times to Londonderry to report on the fatal shooting of 14 unarmed civil rights marchers by British Army Paratroopers. The article he wrote diverged from the official line; it was never printed. Twenty-six years later, his lost copy was unearthed by the new Inquiry. In what follows, he returns to Derry to give evidence. His original article is reproduced in full, along with a map marking the locations of the dead and wounded, and a memo Sayle wrote to the editor of the Sunday Times when the article failed to appear.

Summer — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 16:01:10 -0800

SAS man exposed as fraud The BBC has discovered that Tom Carew, who writes articles from an SAS perspective for the papers and has just published a book about serving in Afghanistan, was never actually a member of the SAS at all. I just saw this interview on TV and laughed and laughed when he punched the camera. WARNING: Realplayer link

raymondc — Mon, 01 Oct 2001 19:49:54 -0800

A reporter dons the Islamic hijaab and writes about the reactions she receives. I'm ashamed to admit that I probably would have been one of the people who pretended she was invisible...