Media: September 2004 Archives

Chris Tryhorn
Monday September 6, 2004

Prout Editor's note: It appears that the Russian news media is now about as censored, restricted and incomplete as the so-called free press in America - the land of so-called freedom and democracy. And certainly American journalists reporting the truth from Iraq are in as great a danger at being shot dead by their own American soldiers as the great Anna Politkovskaya - for daring to write the truth. So once again we need to ask the question: Who are the real terrorists - those who suppress the voice of freedom and dissent, or those who light bombs in order to be heard in the dense jungle of oppression and tyranny of capitalists?
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Alarm bells are ringing in Russian media circles after the alleged poisoning of Anna Politkovskaya, one of the most outspoken critics of Vladimir Putin's policy on Chechnya, and the apparent sacking of the editor of Izvestia today.
Politkovskaya, who writes for the current affairs magazine Novaya Gazeta, was on her way to the siege in Beslan from Moscow when she collapsed mysteriously.

National News Service, Dhaka, Friday, September, 03, 2004

Biman to close down office in Kolkata

NNS from Dhaka: the state-owned Biman Bangladesh Airlines has begun winding up of its loss-making external wings as preparation to privatise the flag carrier in phases. In a recent move, the airline has decided to close its Kolkata office to minimise losses that it has been incurring over the last few years. The authorities will soon appoint a general sales agent for Biman in Kolkata, said local daily, The New Age quoting a top official of the civil aviation ministry. The government has also agreed in principle to wind up some more loss-making foreign offices soon, the newspaper added.

The 10 Big Stories the National News Media Ignore.
By Camille T. Taiara

IN LATE JULY more than 600 people showed up in Monterey to speak at a Federal Communications Commission hearing on ownership concentration in the news media. The participants were a diverse group, young and old, activists and workers, but they had a single consistent message: the mainstream news media have been doing a deplorable job of covering the day's most important stories.