According to the DrudgeReport, the anti-semitic Helen Thomas will announce her retirement shortly. Probably to save the White House from actually revoking her White House press credentials.
Robert Gibbs has stated that her "remarks are offensive and reprehensible." but continued to say that she had rightly apologized for them. I'm sorry but, I think the her credentials should have been taken away immediately. There is no room for those kind of remarks coming from anyone let alone a White House press correspondent.
Showing posts with label reporter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reporter. Show all posts
Monday, June 7, 2010
Helen Thomas to announce her retirement
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Gibbs scolds reporters from asking too many questions about BP
What country are we living in where the President's press secretary tells reporters not to ask questions about BP.
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Media killings, deaths hit 132 in 2009, report says
Not a good year to be a journalist , Especially in a third world Country !
GENEVA (Reuters) - The Philippines, Mexico, Somalia and Russia were the most dangerous countries for journalists in 2009, a global media group reported on Wednesday.
A total of 132 journalists and support staff were killed or died while working last year, the International News Safety Institute, INSI, said.
Just three international reporters were among those deliberately targeted, the dead being overwhelmingly local journalists covering dangerous stories like high-level crime and corruption for national news media.
The Brussels-based INSI, which monitors statistics from around the world, said 98 of the dead were murdered because of their reporting activities.
"Journalists continue to die because they dare to shine a light on the darkest corners of societies. This is the shocking price we pay for our news," INSI Director Rodney Pinder said in a statement released in Geneva with the body's annual figures.
Sunday, June 21, 2009
23 reporters arrested
The Dictatorship of Iran is clamping down on everything , little snippets here and there of info but for the most part silence ! the main reason , all Journalists , Reporters , and Bloggers are Afraid to put anything out for fear of being detained .
It will be a long time before we really know all that has happened in Iran !
The Straits times....
PARIS - IRANIAN authorities have arrested 23 journalists and bloggers since post-election protests began a week ago, according to a media watchdog that says reporters are a 'priority target' for Iran's leadership.
Among those arrested was the head of the Association of Iranian Journalists, Reporters Without Borders said on Sunday.
'It's becoming more and more problematic for journalists,' said Benoit Hervieu of the Paris-based group, also known by its French acronym RSF.
The group released a list of 23 Iranian journalists, editors and bloggers arrested since June 14, and says it has lost contact with several others believed detained or in hiding. Hervieu said RSF verified each arrest via its network of reporters and activists in Iran. No foreign journalists were on the list.
The reasons behind the detentions remain unclear.
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Reporters Escape Taliban Captors
New York Times, Afghan Journalists Were Held 7 Months
Some very lucky men ! Escaping while the Taliban are being hunted down like dogs ,is extremely lucky , First of all being an American seems to be cause enough for the Taliban to execute you ! and then working on a book about the U.S involvement in Afghanistan ? I would not think they would Take to kindly to that either !
washington post....
NEW YORK, June 20 -- A New York Times reporter kidnapped by the Taliban and held for seven months in the rugged mountainous region along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border escaped Friday, along with a local Afghan reporter, by climbing over a wall and finding a nearby Pakistani army base, according to the newspaper, U.S. officials and the journalist's family.
David Rohde, 41, was taken captive Nov. 10 along with local reporter Tahir Ludin, 35, and their driver while Rohde was researching a book on Afghanistan. News organizations, including The Washington Post, did not report on the abduction at the request of the Times and Rohde's relatives, who feared that publication of the news could endanger the lives of the captives.
Rohde was kidnapped after he, Ludin and their driver, Assadullah Mangal, 24, set out by car for a prearranged interview with a local Taliban commander. Rohde, described by friends and colleagues as a brave but cautious reporter who always measured risks before traveling, told colleagues at the Times' Kabul bureau that he expected to be fine. But as a precaution, he left instructions on whom to call if he did not return.
The reporter, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner, was beginning work on a book about the history of U.S. involvement in Afghanistan. He had been held captive in 1995 in Bosnian Serb territory while reporting for the Christian Science Monitor on mass killings at the height of the Bosnian war.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Two detained U.S. reporters moved to Pyongyang
It seems that maybe these two crossed into North Korea when they were detained , I'm just curious as to what they were filming , if it was something that would show North Korea in a bad way , they may have a problem getting released anytime soon !
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SEOUL (Reuters) - Two U.S. journalists arrested last week by North Korean guards at the border with China have been moved to Pyongyang and are being interrogated there, a newspaper said Tuesday, quoting intelligence sources.
The arrest of the pair at the Tumen River came at a time of mounting tension on the Korean peninsula, with the North accusing the United States and South Korea of waging war exercises, while Pyongyang continued preparations to launch a long-range missile.
"We understand the two female reporters are staying at a guest house in the suburb of Pyongyang overseen by the Security Command (the North's intelligence agency) and are being interrogated," the JoongAng Ilbo newspaper quoted an intelligence source as saying."
The two, who South Korean media said were named Euna Lee and Laura Ling, were arrested before dawn on March 17 and driven in separate cars the next day to Pyongyang, JoongAng Ilbo quoted intelligence officials as saying.
South Korea's National Intelligence Service could not immediately comment on the report.
The pair, who media sources say were working for U.S.-based online news company Current TV, probably crossed the river and were on the North Korean side of the river at a point where the current narrowed in the secluded part of the river, the newspaper said.
A State Department official has said Washington has contacted North Korean authorities about the two and was seeking their immediate release.
A diplomatic source said the reporters were on the frozen Tumen river, which runs along the eastern portion of the border with China, when they were taken by North Korean security guards.
The arrest has raised alarm in Washington as it took three months to secure the release of an American in 1996 after he was detained by North Korean guards when he crossed the Yalu River that also separates the North and China.
Monday, March 2, 2009
Iran accuses US reporter of 'illegally' gathering information
First Iran detained US journalist, Roxana Saberi, on charges of buying alcohol, now they're saying she 'illegally' gathered news whatever that means. The mullahacracy's oldest shtick, holding US citizens hostage. AFPTEHRAN (AFP) — Iran said on Monday that a freelance US journalist with Iranian nationality who is reportedly being detained in the Islamic republic has been gathering news "illegally."
Foreign ministry spokesman Hassan Ghashghavi did not confirm or deny whether Roxana Saberi, 31, was being detained by the Iranian authorities, but said her activities were "illegal".
US-based National Public Radio and Fox News, citing Saberi's father, reported last week that the US-born journalist was arrested in late January on charges of buying alcohol, which is prohibited in the Islamic republic.
"Ever since her credentials were revoked by Ershad, her activities have been illegal," Ghashghavi said, referring to the ministry of culture and Islamic guidance, which provides press accreditation for foreign journalists and Iranian reporters working for foreign media in Iran.
"Since 2006 when her press accreditation was revoked, she should not have illegally sought to gather information and news in Iran."
Friday, October 10, 2008
Lawyer demands release for Afghan reporter on death row
An Afghan reporter has been rotting in jail for more than a year for writing an article critical of the way islam treats women. The reporter was sentenced to death back in January
We should have never of let the Afghans put shariah law as their highest law into the Afghanistan constitution. That's what we're fighting to prevent here. AFPKABUL (AFP) — The lawyer of an Afghan reporter sentenced to death on blasphemy charges accused authorities Thursday of holding his client beyond a legal deadline, as the young man neared a full year in detention.
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The appeal of Perwiz Kambakhsh -- arrested last October and sentenced to death by a primary court in January -- has been repeatedly delayed because witnesses who had first testified against him did not turn up to court.
"Based on the law, an appeal court can hold a suspect only for two months. Within this two months, it either should rule or otherwise the suspect must be freed," lawyer Mohammad Afzal Shormach Nuristani told reporters.A university student of journalism, he was convicted of blasphemy for distributing an article he downloaded from the Internet which questioned aspects of Islam.
The article raised issues about the Koran, the Prophet Mohammad and Islam's views on women.
Afghanistan's judicial system is based on Islamic Sharia law, which forbids criticism of Islam and rules that the death penalty should be applied in cases of blasphemy.
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