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Stalin Must Be Pleased: His Heirs Control Russia - Again

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:21:04 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Three hundred journalists murdered since 1993 is Russia. Stalin would be proud. Too bad for those in Russia who wanted freedom and jobs.

Clip Source: aidemocracy.wordpress.com

No Justice for Russian Journalists

It was a quintessentially cold night in Moscow when Anna Politkovskaya arrived back at her flat with her shopping on October 7, 2006. As she took the elevator down for the last bag of groceries, she was confronted by a gunman who shot her twice in the chest and once in the head. She died instantly.

It is estimated that over 300 journalists have died or disappeared in Russia since 1993 as a result of their work.

Tags: czar redux, freedom of press, journalism, russian oligarchs

Foreign journalists arrested as Iran restricts reports on opposition

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:28:20 GMT

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clipper's remarks: It said several journalists had been sentenced to as much as six years in prison after “Stalinist” show trials.

Clip Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Three journalists, one of them foreign, were arrested at Wednesday’s mass demonstrations in Tehran by a regime determined to suppress all independent sources of information.

Farhad Poulaid, an Iranian working for the French wire service AFP, was detained as he rode through central Tehran on a motorbike and nothing has been heard from him since. Nafiseh Zareh Kohan, an Iranian who writes for reformist publications, and Niels Krosgaard, 31, a Danish journalism student, were also held, the International Federation of Journalists said yesterday.

The arrests are part of a sustained crackdown on all independent media, foreign and domestic, in the five months since President Ahmadinejad’s hotly disputed re-election triggered the most serious unrest in the Islamic Republic’s 30-year history.

The international press freedom organisation Reporters Without Borders said: “At least a hundred journalists and cyberdissidents have been arrested since the election and 23 of them are still being held.”

Scientology: The Truth Rundown

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:36:57 GMT

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clipper's remarks: More:

Contacted by the St. Petersburg Times, Rathbun agreed to tell the story of his years in Scientology and what led to his leaving… Seeking to corroborate Rathbun's story, the newspaper contacted others who were in Scientology during the same period and have left the church: Mike Rinder, one of Rathbun's closest associates for two decades; Tom De Vocht, who Rathbun named as key to his decision to leave; and later, Amy Scobee…

The reporters interviewed the four defectors multiple times, and met with church spokesmen and lawyers for 25 hours…

The result of the Times' reporting is this multi-part special report, the latest in a long history of Scientology coverage by the Times…This project, as you will see, features the three days of in-depth reports from the St. Petersburg Times, as well as additional content for this Web presentation. Those additional pieces include video; a photo gallery; and links to previous coverage in the Times, including the Pulitzer-winning coverag
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High-ranking defectors provide an unprecedented inside look at the
Church of Scientology and its leader, David Miscavige.
Scientology leader David Miscavige is the focus of this special report from the St. Petersburg Times. Former executives of the Church of Scientology, including two of the former top lieutenants to Miscavige, have come forward to describe a culture of intimidation and violence under David Miscavige. These former Scientology leaders served for years with Miscavige.
Read our special report
on Scientology
ABOUT THIS SPECIAL REPORT ON SCIENTOLOGY: Mark C. "Marty" Rathbun left the Church of Scientology staff in late 2004, ending a 27-year career that saw him rise to be a top lieutenant to Miscavige in the organization. For the past four years, he has lived a low-profile life in Texas. Some speculated he had died.
In February, Rathbun posted an Internet message announcing he was available to counsel other disaffected Scientologists.

Tags: scientology, conspiracy, journalism, investigation

Keep the government out of the news business

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:39:00 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Turning to Washington for help to save the declining news business says much about the mentality of mainstream journalism leaders, an attitude that we and the government are on the same side. This is the mentality that led to the news establishment’s acceptance of the Iraq War.

Go to the clip to learn what happened to Mother Jones after becoming a tax exempt non-profit after it reported on lobbying in Washington.

Once you allow the government or private corporation to have any controlling link to the media you lose independence. Editors become fearful of criticizing the hand that feeds it. Publishers and benefactors become cozy and unbiased reports become fewer and fewer. Journalism becomes a de facto advertisement for consumer products.

We hope in the future we’ll see more I.F. Stones, more guerrilla warriors on the Web, in print and on the air. Because of them—and not because of a government handout—great reporting will survive, as it always has.

Clip Source: www.truthdig.com

As news organizations shed decent salaries, reasonable working conditions and job security, the business is heading toward a day when it will attract only inquisitive, rebellious misfits. From this group will emerge a few who are talented, tough and driven enough to become the I.F. Stones of the 21st century

Izzy Stone was a muckraking liberal anti-Cold War journalist who couldn’t get a job during the McCarthy era and went out on his own with the one-man I.F. Stone’s Weekly.

“I made no claim to inside stuff—obviously a radical reporter in those days had few pipelines into the government,” wrote Stone

I tried to dig the truth out of hearings, official transcripts and government documents, and to be as accurate as possible

In the worst days of the witch hunt and cold war, I felt like a guerilla warrior, swooping down in surprise attack on a stuffy bureaucracy where it least expected independent inquiry

Tags: media

Controversial New Video of Obama's Pastor

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:57:46 GMT

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Clip Source: www.worldviewtimes.com

Controversial New Video of Obama's Pastor

By Cliff Kincaid

A new video of Jeremiah Wright has surfaced, showing Barack Obama's pastor for 20 years praising Marxism and discussing his ties to communists in El Salvador and Nicaragua and the Libyan government. Equally important, Wright is being introduced in the video by

In an article in the socialist Monthly Review, "Journalism, Democracy, and Class Struggle," McChesney declared, "Our job is to make media reform part of our broader struggle for democracy, social justice, and, dare we say it, socialism."

In the video, which captures Wright's appearance at a September 17, 2009, anniversary celebration of Monthly Review, Wright said that while the "corporate media" provide a "binary lens" of the world, in such terms as "communist versus Christian," Monthly Review offers what it calls "no-nonsense Marxism."

Posted: 11/02/09

John Stossel on the market

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:38:09 GMT

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Clip Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

I was one of America's first TV consumer reporters. I approached the job with an attitude. If companies ripped people off, I would embarrass them on TV -- and demand that government do something. (I now regret the latter -- the former was a good thing.)

I clearly had a point of view: I was a crusader out to punish corporate bullies. My colleagues liked it. I got job offers. I won 19 Emmys. I was invited to speak at journalism conferences.

Then, gradually, I figured out that business, for the most part, treats consumers pretty well. The way to get rich in business is to create something good, sell it for a reasonable price, acquire a reputation for honesty and keep pleasing customers so they come back for more.

But once I got to the national stage -- "20/20" and "Good Morning America" -- it was hard to find comparable national scams. There were some: Enron, Bernie Madoff, etc. But they are rare. In a $14 trillion economy, you'd think there'd be more. But there aren't.

Lawrence Lessig on Institutional Corruption

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:09:00 GMT

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clipper's remarks: From a speech at Harvard's Safra Center for Ethics.

Unclippable video at source. Well worth viewing.

Clip Source: fora.tv

Larry Lessig introduces the Safra lecture series with a discussion on institutional corruption.

He explores the prevalence of this form of corruption in fields ranging from politics to medicine to journalism, and describes his plan to study and contain this problem.

Partner:: Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard
Location:: Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
Event Date:: 10.08.09
Speakers:: Lawrence Lessig

Patriot-News investigative reporter Pete Shellem dies

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:30:30 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "He is a one-man Innocence Project,’’ Preate later told American Journalism Review for a 2007 story about Shellem. “The idea that a single, solitary newspaper reporter can accomplish all this is a remarkable story."

additional info. @ http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=4341

Pete Shellem of Harrisburg’s Patriot-News has freed four people from jail through dogged, old-fashioned reporting.
Shellem lived in Gardners in Cumberland County. He is survived by his wife Joyce and two sons, Philip and Alek. investigative

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Patriot-News investigative reporter Pete Shellem dies

Patriot-News investigative reporter Pete Shellem freed a number of innocent people from prisonPete Shellem, a longtime Patriot-News reporter who specialized in investigating questionable convictions, died unexpectedly over the weekend.

Since 1998, Shellem, 49, has written about the suspect convictions of Patty Carbone, Steven Crawford, Barry Laughman and David Gladden.

All were serving life sentences for murder before Shellem investigated their cases. Today, all four are free.

From 1994 to 1996, Shellem headed a series of stories about justice being sold for campaign contributions in the office of then-Pennsylvania Attorney General Ernie Preate Jr.

"He is a one-man Innocence Project,’’ Preate later told American Journalism Review for a 2007 story about Shellem. “The idea that a single, solitary newspaper reporter can accomplish all this is a remarkable story."

Tags: investigative, reporter

Univ of Mississippi journalism student arrested for taking photos

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:37:24 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Disorderly conduct. The catch-all offense when a cop can’t legally arrest someone. What crime did this ‘lawbreaker’ really commit? Police say: interfering with police assisting someone to an ambulance, getting in the way of the fight, cursing at the officers.

Besson said he did not curse at them until after they handcuffed him when he was telling them not to delete his photos.

I don’t know if they were actually deleting any photos, the story doesn’t get into that aspect. But can we safely say they wouldn’t?

And the two guys fighting? They were not arrested.

Clip Source: carlosmiller.com

A University of Mississippi journalism student was arrested after taking pictures of a fight on campus.

Take a wild guess as to what Eric Besson was charged with.

You got it, disorderly conduct, which we all know is code for contempt of cop.

Besson, who writes and shoots for The Daily Mississippian, started taking photos of university police breaking up a fight on Saturday.

One of the officers ordered him to leave. Besson stood up for his rights.

“I told him I know my rights,” Besson said. “I’m in a public place. An officer came up behind me and cuffed me and arrested me.”

This is not the first time the University Police Department has cracked down on photographers.

A similar incident occurred two weeks ago when an employee of The Daily Mississippian was told by a UPD officer to stop taking photos of a fight and an arrest that took place outside of Vaught-Hemingway stadium during a football game, despite the fact that the photographer was standing approximately 10 yds. from the scene.

Don't be surprised the media elite sided with Fox

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:05:34 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The point's neither complex nor subtle. In this country, journalists don't sponsor or participate in partisan political events. Maybe in Venezuela or China, but in the United States, no. Explaining to the New York Times, deputy White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer said, "We simply decided to stop abiding by the fiction, which is aided and abetted by the mainstream press, that Fox is a traditional news organization."
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Yet neither the Times nor most "mainstream" pundits evaluated the claim on its merits. Most pretended not to grasp the White House's point, and then went straight to the aiding and abetting. Many invoked the ghost of Richard Nixon. Why, to criticize Fox, claimed the Washington Post's Ruth Marcus and Charles Krauthammer, was downright "Nixonian."

NPR's Ken Rudin recalled "what Nixon and Agnew did with their enemies list." So did CNN's Anderson Cooper. Rudin subsequently apologized for the "boneheaded" comparison; Cooper didn't.

Clip Source: www.salon.com

Oct. 28, 2009 | Nobody should be surprised to see the nation's esteemed celebrity news media align with Fox News against the White House, although even a cynical observer like me found the unanimity mildly shocking. Don't they remember what journalism is supposed to be?

Today, even the fig leaf has been removed. A "journalist," so-called, is anybody paid by a media organization to enact the role on television.

Otherwise, anything goes.

The Obama administration's basic charge against Fox News is undeniably true: The network functions as the propaganda wing of the Republican Party. Fox openly organizes and promotes partisan political events such as April's "Fox News Tea Party." Its coverage of congressional "Town Hall" meetings reflected not a single individual supporting healthcare reform, as documented by Media Matters for America. Not one. Fox portrays every perceived setback for the Obama White House as a "victory" for "Fox Nation."

Tags: media, faux news, lemmings, idiots, propaganda

The Prince of Wales Takes A Stand ~

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:40:58 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The delightful Eileen Williams sits down with Paddy Harverson, Communications Secretary to Prince Charles, to chat about the Prince's commitment to the Rain Forests. An inspiring piece of journalism!

Clip Source: www.upvery.com

The Prince of Wales Wants Your SOS

Prince Charles is taking a stand for our planet's Rain Forests. His Communications Secretary sits down with Eileen Williams and shares the Prince's mission.

(UpVery.com) Oct 28, 2009 -- The Prince of Wales is stepping outside his usually-conservative station and taking a stand for the Rain Forests. His Highness, along with a host of committed celebrities have joined forces to save the Rain Forests from annihilation. And a mighty stand it is.

To read more, and hear the interview, please visit FeistySideOfFifty.com (direct link is below).

Tags: rain forests, prince charles, prince of wales, the prince of wales, feisty side of fifty, women over fifty, women over 50, eileen williams, celebrities

Sodom and Gomorrah

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:39:11 GMT

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Clip Source: www.pbs.org

On the outskirts of Ghana's biggest city sits a smoldering wasteland, a slum carved into the banks of the Korle Lagoon, one of the most polluted bodies of water on earth. The locals call it Sodom and Gomorrah.

Correspondent Peter Klein and a group of graduate journalism students from the University of British Columbia have come here as part of a global investigation -- to track a shadowy industry that's causing big problems here and around the world.

Their guide is a 13-year-old boy named Alex. He shows them his home, a small room in a mass of shanty dwellings, and offers to take them across a dead river to a notorious area called Agbogbloshie.

GMA Network,lnc

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:34:08 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The original company (RBS) was founded by Robert Stewart who later gave way to the new management triumvirate composed of Felipe Gozon, Gilberto Duavit and Menardo Jimenez. Under a new management, a revitalized network came about adding a new household word - GMA.

Clip Source: www.philippine-trivia.com

GMA Network,lnc

GMA Network, Inc. (formerly Republic Broadcasting System) began radio operations on March 1, 1950 and TV operations on October 29, 1961. From one radio station in 1950 and one TV station in 1960 in Manila, GMA will operate by the end of 1999 a total of 54 VHF TV stations, 30 UHF TV stations, and 63 AM radio and FM radio stations all over the country.

The rapid growth of GMA served to stir further the development of the Philippine broadcasting industry. Programming innovation made GMA an industry leader. Strong adherence to wholesome well-balanced programming and responsible broadcasting journalism earned for GMA the image of being the most awarded and respected broadcasting organization in the Philippines.

Stamp Commemoration

50th Anniversary of GMA Network,lnc.

Published in Institutions & Society

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Tags: gma network, philippines, institutions, society, business, science and technology, television, network, stamps, trivia

The Washington Post's 2002 "reporting" on Iran

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:08:07 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The issue isn't whether you believe Iran desires to develop nuclear weapons; it's obviously possible (even rational) that they do. The issue is the painfully reckless, transparently irresponsible, and Iraq-replicating "journalistic" methods for disseminating these war-fueling assertions. In perfect 2002 fashion, Warrwick does not have a single named source for these scary allegations; instead, this is who fed him these claims: "many U.S. and European intelligence officials" and "two former senior U.S. officials" and "intelligence officials from the United States and allied nations" and "a senior Middle East-based intelligence official" (one wonders, in vain, which "allied nation" and which "Middle-East based" country might have whispered these things?). And while Warwick provides a cursory paragraph devoted to denials by Iranian officials of these accusations, he does not include a single expert or named source to dispute these claims. It's a purely one-sided, unquestioning and en

Clip Source: www.salon.com

Anyone who believes the establishment media in the U.S. learned even a single lesson from what happened with Iraq should immediately read this featured Washington Post article by Joby Warrick, which gravely and frighteningly warns that Iran's Qom nuclear facility "was intended explicitly for making highly enriched uranium for nuclear weapons." It's filled with one alarmist claim after the next (all anonymously provided, needless to say), such as this: "That number is too small to furnish fuel for a civilian power plant, but just big enough to supply Iran annually with up to three bombs' worth of weapons-grade fuel, the former officials said" and "Qom could produce enough bomb-grade fuel for two to three bombs annually."

Tags: post, news, media, newspaper, journalism, iran, same as iraq, deja vu

FauxNoise

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 05:15:48 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Passing off Opinion Journalism as News, placating the gullible, and firing up the lunatic fringe toward violence — that's their mission statement.

Clip Source: www.cagle.com

Tags: fox, fake news, propaganda, gop, talking points, extremists, lies

Clipmarks | Journalism Clips

Stalin Must Be Pleased: His Heirs Control Russia - Again

No Justice for Russian Journalists

Foreign journalists arrested as Iran restricts reports on opposition

Scientology: The Truth Rundown

Read our special report on Scientology

Keep the government out of the news business

Controversial New Video of Obama's Pastor

John Stossel on the market

Lawrence Lessig on Institutional Corruption

Patriot-News investigative reporter Pete Shellem dies

Patriot-News investigative reporter Pete Shellem dies

Univ of Mississippi journalism student arrested for taking photos

Don't be surprised the media elite sided with Fox

The Prince of Wales Takes A Stand ~

The Prince of Wales Wants Your SOS

Sodom and Gomorrah

GMA Network,lnc

GMA Network,lnc

Stamp Commemoration

The Washington Post's 2002 "reporting" on Iran

FauxNoise

Read our special report
on Scientology