Obama Targets Free Expression (tags)
police state
New Book Reveals Domestic Assassination Policies, Techniques (tags)
In the year 2000, an out of work reporter is approached by a man who is not whom he appears to be. Lured into a romantic affair with him, the reporter is soon to lose everything--her family, her home, her country and nearly her life. EXILE is a true story.
Nepalese journalist buried alive - police (tags)
A group of Maoist former rebels have been arrested over the death of a journalist during Nepal's civil war, with one of them confessing the reporter was buried alive, police say.
Dancing the Apocalypso with the Microbial Gestapo (tags)
The Biological Weapons Convention meets in Geneva amidst allegations that the US has violated the treaty
Targeting Journalists Covering OWS Protests (tags)
police state
OCCUPY roses and constitution showed up in media (tags)
Many more local newspapers covered Occupy The Rose Parade, while TV paid-for-corporate-money pretended WE were not there! See sources on net below for pure enjoyment and passing on to those who missed the parade or the news that counted.
THE ELI GEMINI SHOW-Cover-ups by Belo/Denton Record-Chronicle Lowell Brown, Denton, TX (tags)
THE ELI GEMINI SHOW - Cover-ups by Belo/Denton Record-Chronicle reporter Lowell Brown, Denton, TX
Occupy LA Holding General Assembly Now (tags)
LA Indymedia reporter at the general assembly reports very large crowd there. Perhaps largest GA yet. Reporter estimates 500 to 800 people there now.
BTL:Grim Economic Data Illustrate the Severe Decline of America's Middle Class (tags)
Interview with Andy Kroll, Mother Jones Magazine reporter and associate editor at TomDispatch.com, conducted by Scott Harris
4 FILE LAWSUIT AGAINST PACIFICA RADIO FORMER LEGAL COUNSEL DAN SIEGEL AND BAMBI (tags)
Dan Siegel is being sued along with Bambi and 99 other as-yet-unnamed co-defendants for conspiring to quit his paid position as Pacifica Radio's Legal Counsel in order to serve as an unpaid member of the KPFA Berkeley Local Station Board. The lawsuit is widely seen as a political witch hunt as Pacifica drifts to the right in pursuit of monied white middle class donors.
Urgent Plea from Radio Progreso (Honduras) (tags)
"All of the sudden, Gustavo Cardoza said that a policeman was pointing his weapon at him and immediately reported that other police were coming after him. Our reporter tried to run, and told them that he was a reporter for Radio Progreso. It was then that we heard his cries, and the blows that our reporter was receiving."
Urgent Plea from Radio Progreso (Honduras) (tags)
"All of the sudden, Gustavo Cardoza said that a policeman was pointing his weapon at him and immediately reported that other police were coming after him. Our reporter tried to run, and told them that he was a reporter for Radio Progreso. It was then that we heard his cries, and the blows that our reporter was receiving. The transmission from our reporter was abruptly suspended."
Friday 11:00 am - 200+ Students Walk Out at Venice HIgh (tags)
LOS ANGELES, May 15, 2009 - IMC reporter at the scene reports some 200 students have walked out of class and are holding a demonstration on the front lawn in support of the teachers. About five police units threatening students not to step foot off campus.
David's Daily, Day Journal Of A Freelance Reporter, "Signs Of Hope" (tags)
I spent the latter half of the week, in a numbed state of anger, fear, uncertainty and a compelling urge to get involved, get active, and try and put my slim, frail shoulders to the wheel of a stuck wagon, mired in sinking in mud, in the hopes that my meager efforts might somehow help all we face today. I am sure, nearly all other Americans, and indeed, even international citizens, feel exactly the same way, or nearly the same way, these past few days.
DNC in DNV Dispatch #2 - LA IMC reporter denied access at center fence gates. (tags)
Dispatch #2
Reporter looking for Families Torn Apart by Immigration Law (tags)
The following was passed on to me by the folks at Immigration Detention Watch Network in regards to a request by a reporter who is interested in making a documentary on families who have been negatively affected by U.S. Immigration laws.
Landfill Pollution Goes Unchecked In Home Of 9-1-1 (tags)
The city landfill in Haleyville, Alabama USA, birthplace of 9-1-1, goes unchecked as it pollutes water, air and soil. Government officials will do nothing, ignoring all outside media investigations.
BBC Reported WTC-7 Had Collapsed 20 Minutes Before It Fell (tags)
An astounding video uncovered from the archives today shows the BBC reporting on the collapse of WTC Building 7 over twenty minutes before it fell at 5:20pm on the afternoon of 9/11. The incredible footage shows BBC reporter Jane Standley talking about the collapse of the Salomon Brothers Building while it remains standing in the live shot behind her head.
Are cops trained to lie to the media and cover up police crimes and dirt? (tags)
Read this article written by a cop for Police Public Relations and you answer the question? The answer is pretty obvious!
Brazil: Supreme Federal Court. Too Slow...Why? (tags)
Now the organization "Brazilian Citizens for a Democratic Society" promises prosecute the ministers for billions of "reais" in harms caused to millions of brazilian consumers.
A Lesson from Brad Will (tags)
Brad Will, a New York Indymedia reporter, is gunned down in Oaxaca. And maybe he has something to say to us, if we're listening.
4:00 pm Sat.Today Protest killing of Indymedia Reporter (tags)
4:00 pm Sat.Today Protest killing of Indymedia Reporter
'Tokyo Rose,' 90, pardoned for propaganda role, dies (tags)
Tokyo Rose, a political prisoner jailed by the Americans for non-exist treason crimes in WW II dies
Government Targetting Reporters (tags)
"Sneaks and peeks" becoming commonplace in reporter's home.
New Progressive Orange County newspaper seeks reporters and sales people (tags)
News Reporter Interns Needed For Progressive Orange County Newspaper Are you sick and tired of the elitist corporate slant of mainstream news media? Are you frustrated beyond words by news organizations that water down the facts in the name of “objectivity,” but equally frustrated by reporters who jump to preconceived conclusions without doing the research to back up their work?
Minutemen Target Children: The Attack on Academia Semillas del Pueblo (tags)
HATE-TALK RADIO AND THE BOMB THREAT AT ACADEMIA SEMILLAS DEL PUEBLO
BTL:Bush & Cheney Face Legal Jeopardy in Covert CIA Agent Outing Investigation (tags)
Interview with Robert Parry, investigative reporter, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris
Attack Hollywood: Movie Script For Fascist Hollywood to D.C. to Ala-Bama (tags)
The comedy is here in the links below with music and true to life Alabama Sheriff who a San Francisco auditor caught. Dead FDIC managers are now his quarry, or I should say, those who killed him. Our enemies reign in high places. We take the underground, we take it all, because the above ground......collapses
In the Spirit of Zapata (tags)
The call for justice and human dignity rang out through East LA as hundred of marchers took to the streets to evoke the spirit of liberator and revolutionary Emiliano Zapata and to honor the EZLN, today's Zapatistas.
Indymedia reporter on the ground in Iraq (tags)
fantastic blog by Indymedia journalist on the ground in Iraq. Aliveinbaghdad.org
Revolke Judith Miller's Pulitzer (tags)
Even the Times is saying she has lied and deceived in her reporting on Iraq and al Qaeda. Once that happens, it’s time to look back at her earlier work, including the 2001 articles that won her a Pulitzer.
Slaughtering Journalists by the Book (tags)
American troops are killing journalists in Iraq with regularity with no repercussions because under the Pentagon’s “rules of engagement,” slaughtering anyone a soldier thinks might be suspicious is the right—indeed the heroic--thing to do.
Senator Dianne Feinstein's Deadly Silence (tags)
"Senator Dianne Feinstein's office sill not intervene if the FBI decides to kill a reporter"--Ashley Tveit, Case Manager at Senator Feinstein's San Francisco office.
Audio: HBO/NBC's JIM LAMPLEY on Election 2004 , "the biggest crime in [our history]&q (tags)
Audio: Exclusive Interview with HBO/NBC's JIM LAMPLEY on his Huffington Post firefight after blogging that Election 2004 was "the biggest crime in the history of the nation!" Plus: How The U.S. Press Has Sanitized The War in Iraq: Video/Transcript And Is Bush a Sith Lord? PLUS: How The U.S. Press Has Sanitized The War in Iraq: Video/Transcript
Isikoff and Rather: Different Strokes for Different Folks (tags)
Although the journalistic errors of Michael Isikoff and Dan Rather were similar—both involving some misinformation from a source—the way the political right and the White House have responded is quite at odds. Could it be Isikoff’s record as the reporter who brought us Monica Lewinsky? ---------------------
LA Times Reporter courageously admits that US support for Israel Motivation for 9/11 (tags)
LA Times Reporter courageously admits that US support for Israel Motivation for 9/11
‘That’s me, a marine, a murderer of civilians’ (tags)
Italian reporter shot by US military writes for newspaper that tells raw truth about US role in Iraq.
Former LA Times reporter's book railroaded (tags)
A book by former LA Times reporter Jason Leopold that lays bare the backbones of its author's journey through crime, drug addition, power politics in the newsroom and government and corporate scandal has brought its author head on against the very power politics about which he wrote.
R.I.P. Gary Webb -- Unembedded Reporter (tags)
Gary Webb, a courageous investigative journalist who was the target of one of the most ferocious media attacks on any reporter in recent history, was found dead Friday after an apparent suicide.
TRANSCRIPT: Interview with Gary Webb in 1998 Re-Broadcast Today on Democracy Now! (tags)
Gary Webb, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter who wrote a series of stories linking the CIA to crack cocaine trafficking in Los Angeles, is dead at age 49. We hear an 1998 interview with Gary Webb on Democracy Now! and we speak with his colleague, veteran investigative journalist Robert Parry. [includes rush transcript]
BTL:Ohio's History of Voter Suppression in African American Community Likely... (tags)
...to Have Affected Election Results ~ Interview with Greg Palast, BBC-TV investigative reporter and author, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris
Police shut down kids party (tags)
Police shut down kids party ...
Joseph Anderson Displays [Reveals] Anti-Blackism & 'Anti-Semitism' — by Alexander Cockburn (tags)
"Joseph Anderson Displays [Reveals] Anti-Blackism & 'Anti-Semitism' " — by Alexander Cockburn : Zombies for Kerry; Arundhati Roy Explains NGOs; Joseph Anderson Displays Anti-Blackism and 'Anti-Semitism'
salon.com contacts Free Republic poster over role in murder of Nick Berg (tags)
Apparently, I am in the middle of a controversy regarding the brutal murder of Nick Berg by the Islamofascist terrorist b*st*rds. I received the following FReepmail today from a salon.com reporter and spoke to him off the record. I will either call him back on the record or he can use my comments here on the record.
BTL:Many in Britain Call Hutton Inquiry Exonerating Tony Blair Over... (tags)
...Iraq Weapons Affair a 'Whitewash'. Interview with Greg Palast, BBC-TV investigative reporter conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris
NPR Promotes Questionable Hutton Inquiry (tags)
This listener had to turn instead to the UK Indymedia site and to The Guardian to find the other side of this breaking story. NPR has proven once again how flawed it truly is as a reliable source for news on the public airwaves
FIVE Peace & Justice books by MIKE PALECEK (tags)
Palecek is an Iowa author, former federal prisoner for peace; former Catholic seminarian; former Iowa/MN/Nebr. newspaper reporter; was the Iowa Democratic Party nominee for the U.S. House, 5th District, 2000 election. Palecek lives in Sheldon, Iowa with Ruth, Sam and Emily.
Kudos to LA Times, Schwarzenegger lies Again, and Another Victim's Story (tags)
The Los Angeles Times did its job in sparkling fashion with its investigation of Arnold the Groping Liar published this week. Schwarzenegger's campaign is trying to say Gov. Gray Davis was behind the story, but that's not the case. Here is part of the story of another of those victims that I told a Times reporter about several weeks ago, but they did not have time to confirm the account.
FBI Bypasses First Amendment To Nail Hacker (tags)
There are really only three reasons the government would invoke the ISP statute against journalists. All of these possibilities are frightening in their implications.
Pasadena Weekly reporter seeking to contact activists who have been harassed or surveilled by law enforcement agents.
8 U.S. Troops killed in Iraq ambush (tags)
While L.A. Indymedia evolves into the "All Sherman Austin, all the time" website... the U.S. occupation of Iraq grinds on. On Thursday Sept 18th... an ambush of U.S. troops resulted in the death of 8 American soldiers. What did they die for George? Hey... where are those weapons of mass destruction you launched this war over?
Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election (tags)
Showing October 5, 2003 in Hollywood California at the Green Reel Film Festival, "Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election" is the powerful and eye-opening documentary surrounding BBC reporter Greg Palast's drive to uncover the truth about electoral shenanigans in Florida and the undermining of American democracy.
A minority view: the problem with liberals (tags)
The problem lies in the inherent mind-set of any organization as liberal as The Times. For minorities, this produces what I call paternalistic condescension: paternalistic because the liberal feels that only he knows what is good for the minorities, since the minorities cannot take care of themselves; and condescension because he feels good by lowering himself to help those he feels are below him.
At the paper of record, it seems, ideology trumps truth.
Closing Down the Press: Did the US Murder Journalists? (tags)
"The Americans were outraged at al-Jazeera's coverage of the civilian victims of US bombing raids. And on 8 April, less than three hours before the Reuters office was attacked, an American aircraft fired a single missile at the al-Jazeera office"
Ms. Sarandon Denies Claim (tags)
Susan Sarandon, noted activist, denies rumor
The democracy we bomb to you (tags)
We invade in your countries to rescue you. We enslave you to liberate you. We kill you to give you life. We bring you american democracy to plunder your nations:
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 4/4/03 ¡Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.4MB) and quick download (3.3MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast. Russia, China, Germany, Netherlands, and Cuba.
LEGEND ARNETT JOINS MIRROR (tags)
THE reporter sacked by American TV for telling the truth about the war is joining the Daily Mirror
Who Profits from War on Iraq? (tags)
BBC Reporter Greg Palast Discusses "Who Profits from War on Iraq?" Saturday April 12 - New Haven 2:00 pm
A patriotic U.S. media covers the war in the Iraq (tags)
This Reuters piece shows how the mainstream press understands full well that it is a propaganda organ of states. I found it published in Ha'aretz at http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=278182&contrassID=1&subContrassID=8&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
TUESDAY: On democracy Now! Robert Fisk in Baghdad (tags)
On Tuesday March 25, news reporter Robert Fisk will join Democracy Now's Amy Goodman and Jeremy Scahill for an exclusive 40-minute interview from Baghdad beginning at 9 a.m. EST (6 a.m. repeated at 9 am on KPFK 90.7 FM in LA).
Thoughts on talking to the media (tags)
Some thoughts on what to do when a TV reporter suddenly sticks a mic in your face.
COLOMBIAN REPORTER TELLS ALL - TO U.S. PRESS (tags)
NEW YORK -- Colombian journalist Ignacio Gomez told a roomful of America's most influential journalists Tuesday how Washington-supported Colombian president Alvaro Uribe is connected to drug traffickers and how U.S. military trainers helped organize a massacre in his country.
The Railroad Barons Are Back - And This Time They'll Finish the Job (tags)
This administration is set to complete what the railroad barons pushed the Grant administration to start: to take democracy and its institutions of governance from the hands of the human citizen/voters the Founders fought and died for, and give it to the very types of monopolistic corporations the Founders fought against when they led the Tea Party revolt against the East India Company in Boston Harbor in 1773.
All the best arguments brought together...sort of...
LA TO MINN. IMC -ON WELLSTONE- INVESTIGATE, DON'T SPECULATE! (tags)
LA IMC reporter remembers RFK assassination, asks Minnesota IMC to investigate Wellstone's death, not speculate.
Yoland Perez (followup) (tags)
Partial transcript of an interview with Yolanda Perez a community activist who was attacked by the San Diego police. Also a slomotion video of the attack.
A list of the Israeli crimes LAST 24HR (tags)
Israeli forces suspended the licenses and permissions of 24 journalists and photographers working for the international press and media.
Regarding Media Perspective (tags)
it is all but perspective.
White House Press Briefing with Ari Fleischer Monday, July 2, 2001 1:15 PM (tags)
Has the President expressed a view on the death penalty for corporate criminals -- that is, revoking the charter of a corporation that has been convicted of a crime that has resulted in death?
The Rally is going on right now.... I can hear helicopters circling Activists (tags)
Activists made a friendship circle at the South East Circle of Balboa Park, then Head to the Streets towards the San Diego Convention Center while Police Presence remains High, and While California Highway Patrol officers block streets and circle the area with a Loud disruptive Helicopter in the air. As the Activists march, so do the police officers behind them.
Channel 8 Repoporter asks a good question? (tags)
Drawing of a local NBC reporter asking a good question
Channel 8 Repoporter asks a good question? (tags)
Drawing of an NBC reporter asking a good question
NYC IMC reporter alleges assault by WBAI/Pacifica staffer at protest (tags)
NYC IMC reporter, Kevin Prichard was hospitalized yesterday for an injury sustained at a protest at WBAI/Pacifica in NYC. Prichard claims he was assaulted by WBAI staffer, Paul DiRienzo.
WSWS: Among the delegates to the DNC (tags)
“They say it's there, but I'm not aware of it.” That was the response to a question on the growth of social inequality posed by this reporter to a delegate who was wildly applauding after Bill Clinton's speech to the Democratic National Convention. Her remark, though particularly stark in its expression of complacency, was not untypical of the comments this reporter got while interviewing delegates on the floor of the convention. [...] http://wsws.org/articles/2000/aug2000/dnc-a18.shtml
IMC Staffer Taken Into Custody By LAPD (tags)
"Clown Guy," who does work for the IMC, was taken into custody after informing members of the Black Bloc via mic about their rights
Police Actions Called "Provacative" By Protestors, Some Abuses Seen (tags)
Largely unreported info from angelfire.com/zine/ua...Unlawful Assembly
Amazon Watch ed talks w/ a reporter (tags)
Amazon Watch Executive Director Atossa Soltani speaks with a local reporter at a banner hang this past Monday in L.A. More information on the banner hang and the issues concerning the drop can be found at www.soldoutusa.com
Freedom of Speech and Assembly (tags)
Protestors of the WTO in Seattle sued the city, the mayor, and the Police Departement and won. It's the first right secured by the Constitution, for the right reason.
London Times: Swinging left fast, Arianna the conscience-stricken chameleon (tags)
NOTE: What is especially noteworthy about this report is that Huffington reveals, to a FOREIGN reporter (she has been careful not to do so to an American reporter), her Republican bias in favor of oil-rich George W. Bush over environmentalist Al Gore.