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InternationalMonday Apr 14, 2008
U.S. to Free AP Photog Bilal HusseinFreeBilal.org, the Web site dedicated to freeing Bilal Hussein, the Iraqi citizen and AP photographer held by the United States government on terrorist charges for the past two years, won't need to exist much longer. The United States military will comply with last week's ruling by an Iraqi judicial committee to award Hussein amnesty. According to a statement released by the U.S. government, Maj. Gen. Douglas M. Stone, commander of coalition detention facilities in Iraq, signed the release order earlier today. The statement does not confirm guilt or innocence. Hussein, part of the AP photography team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2005, had been held since April 12, 2006 on charges of possessing bomb-making materials, conspiracy with insurgents and helping to forge identification cards. Friday Dec 28, 2007
TV Station Holds Politician Hostage![]() Dealing with pompous, asinine politicians is one of the hazards of working in television news. But Sri Lankan state broadcaster Rupavahini TV lived the dream... and held the country's Minister of Labor hostage for three hours. Here's what happened... Mervyn Silva, Sri Lanka's Minister of Labor, stormed the offices of state broadcaster Rupavahini along with his entourage. Silva was upset that a speech he made on Wednesday had not been covered by the station. A scuffled ensured and one of Silva's aides allegedly assaulted Rupavhini's news director. Silva was then held hostage by Rupavahini's staff for more than three hours... the problem? Rupavahini TV would have let Silva leave the building if he apologized. He eventually apologized... after Rupavahini's corporate HQ was surrounded by commandos and police with tear gas. But, wait. Silva gave a non-apology apology: "If my action is considered as a wrong act, I would like to apologise to the employees," said Silva. Silva has had a history of violent behavior in the past. (Image via Al-Jazeera/Reuters) Wednesday Dec 26, 2007
Worst Job Ever: Working For The North Korean State Press
When he finds himself among soldiers, he takes a scrupulous care of their life from cultural and emotional activities to meals, showing them warmer affection than their own parents would. That's right: Serve in the North Korean military and the Dear Leader will personally fix your television reception. Tuesday Nov 13, 2007
Covering The Olympics? The Chinese Government's Probably Keeping Tabs On You.![]() So, hmm. The bastion of press freedom known as China is building an extensive database on the 30,000 foreign journalists scheduled to cover the 2008 Beijing Olympics. But, don't worry: It's not to create blacklists, obstruct reporters or to prevent access to those rabblerousing Uighur and Tibetan secessionists. The San Francisco Chronicle was told they have until February to disclose the names of their journalists... and the Agence France-Presse got the quote of the day, from Li Zhanjun of the Beijing Olympic organizing committee's media centre: "Some reporters like to cover sport and some others are very interested in politics ... so we have some kind of data and information concerning that." No comment necessary on that one, eh? Friday Nov 09, 2007
Should Al Gore be Time's Person of the Year?A whopping 66% of FishbowlNY readers voted No, Rosie O'Donnell should NOT get a talk show on MSNBC or anywhere else. Today's Poll:
Thursday Jun 28, 2007
Vanity Fair's German Issue
Spiegel's verdict: Wednesday May 23, 2007
Fallout Over ABC News' Iran Covert Action Report
Romney: "I was shocked to see the ABC News report regarding covert action in Iran. The reporting has the potential of jeopardizing our national security. To put it quite plainly, it has the potential of affecting human life, we may never know." ABC News' response: "In the six days since we first contacted the CIA and the White House, at no time did they indicate that broadcasting this report would jeopardize lives or operations on the ground. ABC News management gave them the repeated opportunity to make whatever objection they wanted to regarding our report. They chose not to." The story, by the way, has drawn over 1,500 comments. EARLIER: Wednesday May 16, 2007
Filmmaker Makes Plea For Suicide Bomber Hero
Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy, an award-winning filmmaker for the Discovery Channel, PBS and New York Times TV among other media outlets, is asking for help in an effort to save Ghufran Haider, a young Pakistani featured in Obaid Chinoy's 2005 film Pakistan's Double Game who saved hundreds of lives by stopping a suicide bomber in Karachi. Haider, who testified against the bomber, is in Dubai, but faces probable death in Pakistan if he returns. Haider's visa expires May 19. Obaid-Chinoy's memo: Tuesday Apr 17, 2007
Va. Tech Shooter's 'Play'
AOL, via Facebook, has obtained Cho Seung Hui's Richard McBeef, a play he supposedly wrote while at Virginia Tech. A student explains the eery background to AOL: A major part of the playwriting class was peer reviews. We would write one-act plays and submit them to an online repository called Blackboard for everyone in the class to read and comment about in class the next day. Typically, the students give their opinions about the plays and suggest ways to make it better, the professor gives his insights, then asks the author to comment about the play in class. EARLIER: Wednesday Jan 31, 2007
Bush Visits Stock Exchange, Covers CNN Mic
George W. Bush made a surprise visit to the New York Stock Exchange floor only the second sitting president to do so CNN's transcript: LISOVICZ: President Bush, welcome to Wall Street. Welcome to Wall Street. Bush, of course, has had a rather checkered history with CNN microphones, and, for that matter, so has Kyra Phillips. PreviouslyNBC's Arraf: 'In Which American City Do 60 Bullet-Riddled Bodies Turn Up On A Given Day?' The New Evangelicals: Armstrong, Burnett, Clinton, Eisner, Guber Rap In New York Cindy Sheehan Endorses New York Green Party Candidate Ricky Martin Down On Human Trafficking, Offers ABC News Exclusive Op-Ed Video: Daily Show Snags Musharraf Interview Al Gore, Amanda Congdon Crash Good NYC Launch Party CNN Photo Of National Guard Deployment At JFK: Oh, We Feel Much Safer Now Media Kindly Request Sharks Attack Someone This Time, AP Faces Beirut Photo Scrutiny As BBC Removes Image More Smoke Billowing From Reuters Photo Flap Update: Reuters Drops Photographer For Altering Image Time Out Beirut, Tel Aviv Editors' Friendship Strained By War As TOB Suspends Publication Media Looks For After-School Special Amid Mideast Crisis Newsweek Chooses Oliver Stone Drama Over Real-Life War In World Trade Center Cover Claudia Schiffer Shills For Germany In Grand Central Terminal Breaking: Sources Also Say War Sucks Sellers of 'Yankees Suck' T-Shirts Travel To Iraq, Party With Drug-Addled Soldiers, Write About It New York Journos Call For Release Of Journalist Jailed In China Media In Heat: How Cool Was It In Your Office Today? Nation Battles Sizzling Heat As Copy Editors Battle Clichés Reuters Cameraman Leg Wounded In Israel Rocket Attack Swashbuckling Pirates' Box-Office Booty Inspires Awkward Headlines, Leads Everywhere Endless Summer Media Preview #4: Mediabistro Staffer Edition Russia Bans ABC News; Journo Org Urges Putin, Bush For Probe Into Forbes Reporter's Death Endless Summer Media Preview 2006 NYT's Apcar Named IHT Asia Deputy Editor; Asia 'Vital Part' of Times Co. Future Special Report: Lou Dobbs, Latino Media Clash At NAHJ Convention Local Russian Papers Say A Hurricane Will Strike In Brooklyn; Terrified Immigrants Flee Shiloh Jolie-Pitt Gets Around International Newsstand Rite Aid, Eckerd Ban Shock as Photographer Calls Off Settlement, Launches Protest Site Media's Goaaaaaaal: Trap, Feed World Cup Buzz Times of London U.S. Launch: 'Hard To See How They're Going To Make Any Money' Bush Targets Magazine Editor For Domestic Policy Post Press Freedom Org. Reacts to Gonzales Verdict in Slain Forbes Journalist Trial Expected Friday Honoring Press Freedom, From Starbucks Notes From the Overseas Press Club Awards Gala Virgin Logo to Get Worked Over Massive upheaval in Canada? No biggie. How to cover a kidnapping: Moral questions, and journalistic ones The French Riots: Pass the Le Corbusier, machinima, and a merci to TNR's Marty Peretz Report from Sacramento: Elector Set We will not write "Paris is burning" we will not write "Paris is burning" No Props to you, Schwarzenegger -- or Libby Harry Potter's gay? You don't say! (Actually, he didn't) Embedded Redux: Reports from the front lines Journalist Steven Vincent killed in Iraq Suspect in Daniel Pearl murder arrested in Pakistan An Officer and a General: The NYT's anonymous sources in Iraq Report from Sacramento: Huffington, Denton, etc. NYT in Iraq: Fudging facts, sleeping around, enjoying cappucino Reporting from Sacramento: Our Foreign Correspondent on Radar Canadians: The Shadowy Strangers Among Us Report from Sacramento: MoDo & Anderson Cooper Report from Sacramento: Mr. SAC goes to Washington Report from Sacramento: Martha & Vanity Fair The view from Sacramento: dispatches from FishbowlNY's Foreign Correspondent |
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