Police carry away a protester, one of scores who have been forcefully arrested at the non-violent Occupy Wall Street protest, 09/24/11. (photo: Tina Fineberg/AP) Journalistic "Objectivity" Sours Wall Street Reporting By Michael Tracey 26 September 11 ReaderSupportedNews.org Brian Stelter and the pathology of objectivity. Last night, the New York Times' Brian Stelter tweeted about the Occupy Wall Street protests, which More
Thank you from reporter Mahdi Nazemroaya, formerly trapped in Libya Below is a series of emails regarding the reporter trapped in a hotel in Libya. Thank you to those who made calls! From: Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya Date: Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 5:20 PM Subject: RE: Mahdi Nazemroaya: Thank you for the courageous work. Relieved to More
Global – Guardian journalist negligently disclosed Cablegate passwords 1 September 2011 WIKILEAKS EDITORIAL A Guardian journalist has negligently disclosed top secret WikiLeaks’ decryption passwords to hundreds of thousands of unredacted unpublished US diplomatic cables. Knowledge of the Guardian disclosure has spread privately over several months but reached critical mass last week. The unpublished WikiLeaks’ material More
The war without end is a war with hardly any news coverage COMMENTARY | August 10, 2011 Nieman Watchdog The American print press is almost totally absent from Afghanistan, leaving the reporting to a handful of news organizations. TV coverage averages 21 seconds per newscast for NBC and not much more for ABC and CBS. One More
Media Group Calls For UN Probe Of NATO Bombing Of Libya State TV Huffington Post August 5, 2011 08/ 5/11 01:23 PM ET LONDON — An international media safety group has joined calls Friday for the United Nations to investigate NATO's bombing of Libyan television, which reportedly killed 3 people and injured 15. The More
Anonymous, LulzSec: ‘Your threats to arrest us are meaningless’ By Hayley Tsukayama Posted at 10:33 AM ET, 07/21/2011 Washington Post Blog The logo of LulzSecAnonymous and LulzSec released a joint statement responding to the FBI on Thursday morning, defending their practices and insisting that their hacks will effect social change. The groups said that More
FBI arrests 16 in ‘Anonymous’ hacker crackdown By Agence France-Presse Tuesday, July 19th, 2011 -- 9:27 pm The Raw Story WASHINGTON — US authorities Tuesday arrested 16 people for cyber crimes including 14 over an online attack on the PayPal website claimed by the hacking group "Anonymous," the Department of Justice (DoJ) said. The More
Amid Scandal, Murdoch Kills Off News Of The World by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Posted as published by National Public Radio NPR.org LONDON July 7, 2011, 03:15 pm ET The Murdoch media empire unexpectedly killed off the muckraking News of the World tabloid Thursday after a public backlash over the illegal guerrilla tactics it used to expose More
