Media: June 2004 Archives

Bangadesh 28 June 2004

The editor of a regional daily in south-western Khulna has been killed in a bomb attack, less than six months after the murder there of a BBC World Service local correspondent. A far-left armed group admitted responsibility.

Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontières) and the Bangladesh Centre for Development, Journalism and Communications (BCDJC) joined in expressing their revulsion at the 27 June killing of Humayun Kabir Balu, 57, editor of Dainik Janmabhumi.

By ANICK JESDANUN, AP Internet Writer

NEW YORK - A handful of scribes publishing in a newer medium will join the thousands of newspaper, magazine and broadcast journalists at this summer's political conventions. They'll be blogging.

The Democrats are holding true to their "party of inclusion" billing vis-a-vis the online chroniclers, whose Web logs have leapt in popularity this year as political junkies increasingly get their fix with mouse clicks.

Source: Reporters Without Borders (RSF)

Person(s): Hamid Rashid Wali, Fran Sevilla, Hassan Karim

Target(s): journalist(s) , media worker(s)

Type(s) of violation(s): arrested , detained , killed

(RSF/IFEX) - An Iraqi technician from al-Jazeera television, Hamid Rashid Wali, was shot dead on the night of 20 May 2004 in Kerbala, during clashes between the United States (US) Army and Moqtada al-Sadr's Shiite militia, al-Jazeera said in Baghdad.

by Norman Solomon

Thursday, June 17, 2004 "Jordan Times" --Among the millions of words that have appeared in the US press since late April about abuse and torture at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, one has been notably missing: racism. Overall, when it comes to racial aspects, the news coverage is quite PC — as in Pentagon Correct. The outlook is “apple pie” egalitarian, with the media picture including high-profile officers who are African-American and Latino. Meanwhile, inside the policy arena, Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice are frequently in front of cameras to personify Uncle Sam in blackface.