AGAIN!

Guardian: An Iraqi state TV presenter and her driver were found dead yesterday, a day after being abducted.

JOURNALIST ACCREDITATON AT RISK

A new report from Europe takes aim at an insidious form of state censorship: the misuse of accreditation to journalists. The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has issued the report through its media freedom office. The report’s purpose is to remind the 56 OSCE states that open and fair accreditation of journalists is part of their commitment to press freedom.

Other states singled out in the report include Belarus, Russia, Turkmenistan, and the United States. The latter country in recent years has been enforcing a law requiring journalists to apply for an ‘I-Visa’ from the Homeland Security Department-and some have bee expelled for not having one. OSCE says the permit has an ‘unnecessary permissive character.’

http://ijnet.org/Director.aspx?P=Article&ID=305653&LID=1 - International
Journalists Network

PROPAGANDA/NOISE MACHINE

The NY Times suggested Republican strategist fired by Wal-Mart no longer works for Sen. McCain — one day after reporting that he does.

In an October 28 article [ http://mediamatters.org//rd?http://
www.nytimes.com/2006/10/28/us/politics/

New York Times reported that Nelson “has worked for various Republican leaders, including President Bush and Senator JohnMcCain of Arizona.” In reporting that Nelson “has worked” for McCain, the Times obscured the fact that Nelson currently works for McCain”

http://mediamatters.org//rd?http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/27/us/politics/

http://mediamatters.org/items/dailyemail/20061028000

Jerry Starr on the Times and Cross Ownership

“Today’s business section column [reg. required] on why concerns about newspaper-broadcast ownership safeguards are “yesterday’s news” illustrates how poorly informed too many media beat reporters are about their own industry.

First, writer Richard Siklos fails to acknowledge that his own employer-The Times Co.-lobbied the FCC to sweep away such rules during the 2001-3 proceeding. Reporters need to do a better of digging to learn about what their own employers are doing-both politically and in terms of market investments.

In addition, Siklos, like so many others, fails to address how the Internet, due to recent FCC decisions, may not be able to provide a meaningfully diverse array of information sources in the near future….

Read it all:
http://www.democraticmedia.org/jcblog/?p=127

AL JAZEERA HONORS JOURNOS KILLED ON THE JOB

DOHA: The Qatar-based satellite television network Al-Jazeera said on Thursday it will unveil a “Wall of Freedom” in honor of journalists worldwide who have been killed while doing their jobs.

“The 16.5 metre memorial, to be unveiled on the channel’s 10th anniversary on November 1 at its Doha headquarters, is “an ongoing recognition of the dangerous work that many journalists are required to do”, Al-Jazeera said in a statement.

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