Archive for the ‘Freedom of the press’ Category
Monday, April 25th, 2005
So Kalle Lasn of AdBusters - who are currently running another 'TV Turnoff Week' - has entered sports bars in order to turn off the televisions in them (using the TV-B-Gone). Seems to be taking things a little too far - and giving people another reason to dismiss the activities ...
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Monday, March 14th, 2005
In light of recent debate on whether the US has been targetting journalists, or has just been repeatedly killing journalists by mistake it was interesting to see this post about threats in 2003 against journalists coming up in the 'In Previous Years' section.
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Thursday, March 3rd, 2005
Independent News and Media have a long-winded legal disclaimer on their site in which they purport to ban links like this one:Hypertext links to this website by other users and websites are permitted provided that the link to this website is in a simple list of companies by pointing to ...
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Wednesday, February 9th, 2005
I've got a letter in tomorrow's Irish Times, but somehow I feel little satisfaction. It's one of many written in response to this column by Kevin Myers. So strong has the general response been that the Irish Times has had to turn over its entire page to the issue - ...
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Wednesday, February 2nd, 2005
My local PBS affiliate will be one of those airing the 'Buster' episode pulled from nationwide distribution by PDS. (Disclosure: WILL-TV, like the WILL radio stations, is run by a unit of the College of Communications at UIUC, in which I am a student, and I've previously worked within WILL-AM).
For ...
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Wednesday, February 2nd, 2005
It seems like McDowell has mainly provided free publicity for the new Daily Ireland newspaper:Rinne an tAire Dlí is Cirt, Michael Mc Dowelll ionsaí fíochmhar ar an nuachtán úr laethúil, Daily Ireland a bheidh ar díol ar fud na tíre inniu. Dúirt sé gur chosúil an nuachtán le foilsiúcháin bholscaireachta ...
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Sunday, December 12th, 2004
I meant to report earlier on the RSF index of press freedom for 2004, which came out a few weeks ago. I was happy to see that Ireland, despite strong libel laws, came out in joint first spot. The top of the list was dominated by European states - primarily ...
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Thursday, November 18th, 2004
What do you do when reporters show that war is resulting in atrocities? You try to stop the reporting of course.
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Tuesday, October 26th, 2004
Wow. It appears that no-one is claiming responsibility for the seizure of the Indymedia servers. The UK authorities weren't involved (even though the seizure took place on British soil, and their involvement would presumably be required). The FBI claim that they know nothing about it - though they had earlier ...
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Sunday, August 22nd, 2004
I'm very sympathetic towards the Olympic athletes who have been muzzled by the IOC. Notwithstanding the centrality of television revenues to modern games, I find the concept of ownership of information on results - and especially the stretching of that concept to include people's narratives of their own experiences, which ...
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