Analysis: Media freedom under attack from both sides in Iraq
Text of editorial analysis by Alistair Coleman of BBC Monitoring Media Services on 2 November
Concern is rising over attacks on the press in Iraq, following the recent deaths of journalists and media workers in a particularly bloody week for the profession, which raises questions of press freedom in the region.
With reporters and media workers falling victim to both insurgents and US military action, and the interim government planning "stringent controls" on the media through a newly-created Higher Media Council, it has been asked whether it is possible to have a free press in Iraq.
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Posted by Matthew Burton on November 2, 2004 at 05:35 PM in Journalist violence | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (343)
Financial Times: Arab media under pressure after Iraq bomb
BAGHDAD - A car bomb that hit the offices of three pan-Arab satellite stations in Baghdad on Saturday came after one of them, al-Arabiya, altered news coverage that US and Iraqi interim government officials had called pro-insurgent.
The attack, which killed seven people, threatens to place the Arab media between a government that threatens to close them for being a mouthpiece for the rebels, and rebels who target them for being a tool of the government and its US ally.
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Posted by Matthew Burton on November 1, 2004 at 05:41 PM in Journalist violence | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (158)
Quds Press: Arabic TV Channels Said Expelled From Al-Fallujah for "Dishonest" Reports
Al-Fallujah, 29 October: Iraqi resistance men in Al-Fallujah city have driven correspondents of four Arab satellite channels out of the city because of what the resistance men described as the biased coverage of these channels. The city fighters asked correspondents of Al-Arabiya, MBC, LBC and the official Al-Iraqiyah Television, to leave the city.
Posted by Matthew Burton on October 29, 2004 at 05:45 PM in Journalist violence | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (112)
Al Jazeera Adopts a New Code Of Accuracy and Good Taste - (Reuters)
The Arabic satellite television channel Al Jazeera, accused by the United States of graphic, anti-American coverage of fighting in Iraq, released a new code of ethics on Tuesday that it said would ensure balanced and sensitive reporting. The channel defended its right to report "the ugly face of war" but said the guidelines would take account of Western and Arab sensitivities when considering whether to broadcast explicit images of violence.
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Posted by Vanessa Hetherington on July 14, 2004 at 10:36 AM in Aljazeera, Journalist violence | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (20)
Coalition Provisional Authority Briefing:
Click here to read the transcript of this CPA briefing, questioned on violence against journalists in Iraq.
Posted by Vanessa Hetherington on April 20, 2004 at 02:42 PM in Journalist violence, Press freedom | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (61)
