Iranian-Canadian journalist, Maziar Bahari talks of prison ordeal

Maziar Bahari, a Canadian Journalist, was arrested as a result of protests last June after the rigged election in Iran.  Maziar Bahari was accredited as a journalist for Newsweek. He was released in October...

Moon’s Unification Church Coerced Washington Times Editor

Moon’s Unification Church Coerced Washington Times Editor to Attend Mass Wedding The editor filed an EEOC complaint because he was dismissed for complaining about being forced to attend what he called a...

Roxana Saberi: Credibility Questioned

“That upset me,“ says Mike Williams, resident of Fargo and former supporter of Roxana Saberi. Many in Fargo and sister city of Moorhead, MN share the same reaction, littering Fargo’s newspaper, In-Forum, with...

Ev Williams speaks at ONA

I am sorry to be missing this year's ONA conference in San Francisco.  The conference is doing a great job of providing a live stream of the proceedings here.  I'll be watching it remotely and have also set up a SCAN.

Jenna Bush Joins "Today Show" No Mention of Her Underage Drinking

First daughter Jenna Bush made the headlines quite a bit with her notorious underage drinking episodes, which included using fake IDs, but none of that was mentioned in a glowing welcome to the "Today Show" as...

OpEd News Journalist charged with criminal conspiracy

Having published numerous articles for OpEd News,  this caught my eye:  "Philadelphia, PA, September 13, 2009: Six members of various anti-war groups, including World Can't Wait and Military Families...

JUSTICE FOR SALE vs. DEEP US GOVERNMENT & TURKISH CONNECTIONS

THE STORY...   BEHIND THE STORY... I am not Journalist, I am a victim of theft. I am here by necessity, fighting forces much larger than us. Before we were aware of what Sibel Edmonds was doing... We have been...

THE LARGEST ESPIONAGE, BRIBERY & POLITICAL SCANDAL IN US HISTORY

          A long tale of  massive  corruption that has been hidden throughout the  eight years of the  Bush administration is finally surfacing.    After...

Political take over of Citizen Journalism

In the world of politics, citizen journalism on the internet has become to look very dangerous, in its context and ability to attack political indoctrination and propaganda. The normal news media can be...

Twentysomething lands managing editor gig at The New Yorker

Thursday I learned that a 26-year-old woman landed a managing editor gig at The New Yorker. Amelia Lester, an Australia native, graduated from Harvard and began at The New Yorker as a fact checker. She left to edit for the Paris Review. Now she's back and the envy of, um,...

Aspen Institute hosts FOCAS 2009

I'm sorry to be missing this event.  Plenty of good conversation going on. "he Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program, with Senior Sponsorship from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, present FOCAS 2009 August 16-19 on the theme Of the Press: Models...

New Brunswick newspaper apologizes PM Harper

The Saint John Telegraph Journal issued an apology, today, for a story published on July 8th.   The paper said that story did not have any evidence to support it. While Stephen Harper was attending the...

Klebnikov Case Resurrected, Gives Hope for Russian Journalists

  This is a follow-up to my recent story Violence Against Russian Journalists, where Reporters Without Borders had issued a letter to the US President Obama urging him to raise the issue of  increased...

News Reporting mess!!!??? or is it just me???

July 3rd, Pune, Cops raided a private party and arrested a young group of boys and girls...When I first read this Story in the Times of India website,,, I was really angry and disturbed by this Bold new step of implying  MORALE POLICING and decided to give my comments on...

Newsweek Demands Release of Canadian Journalist Held in Iran

Newsweek magazine is demanding the release of a Canadian journalist held in Iran.The CBC reported that Maziar Bahari was taken by a group of men believe to be "security officials" on Sunday from the apartment he share with his mother, according to Newsweek foreign editor...

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