Laglagan (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
"“Never in the history of journalism have the news media suffered such a heavy loss of life in one day,” Reporters Without Borders said. “We convey our condolences and sympathy to all journalists in the Philippines, who are in state of shock after this appalling massacre.”" http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/nation/view/20091124-238039/Maguindanao-slays-dark-day-for-press-freedomwatchdog...
Thoughts of Nigel (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Quite appalling news coming out of the Philipines yesterday. Reporters without borders reporting that At least 12 journalists were killed today in Maguindanao province (on the southern island of Mindanao) by armed men, including two policemen, linked to the province’s governor, a supporter of President Gloria Arroyo. More than 30 other people were murdered. Some of the victims were beheaded....
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Twelve journalists were among 24 people murdered yesterday in the Philippines in what is thought to be the greatest loss of life by news media in a single day. Several of the victims were beheaded in the massacre carried out by a huge force of gunmen. The journalists were among a group of about 50 people travelling in a convoy in Maguindanao province, on the southern island of Mindanao, to register...
Soc 202 - Current Events (Free subscription) | yesterday
Catherine Maynard 23 November 2009 .:Summary:. In the Muslim autonomous region of Maguindanao in the Philippines, at least 21 hostages were found dead on Monday. A presidential advisor has called this event “the most gruesome massacre of civilians” in recent history. According to military officials around 100 gunmen surrounded a group of 40 people and took them hostage. The hostages were...
Infidel Bloggers Alliance (Free subscription) | yesterday
Note that even in the Philippines, where the people of Minadanao have been under Jihadist attack for 30-40 years (I know, because my wife's family was chased off the island by Muslims), the news reporter does NOT tell the truth of the attacks. Instead, she says it is "about election, violence and media". Frankly, this woman is a cunt to even mouth those words. As a journalist it is incumbent...
The Seferm Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
"Never in the history of journalism have the news media suffered such a heavy loss of life in one day," Paris-based media watchdog Reporters Without Borders said in a statement.
Atlas Shrugs (Free subscription) | yesterday
All the Islamic tools in the media - your future awaits you. Attack on election convoy kills 21 Filipinos hat tip Hal There was no claim of responsibility for the bloodshed in the predominantly Muslim region wracked by political tensions between rival clans. The convoy of vans carrying about 40 people was hijacked in Maguindanao province, about 560 miles (900 kilometers) south of Manila, and army troops...
Democracy Resource Center Blog (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
URL: http://www.rsf.org/Survey-of-blocked-Uyghur-websites.html . Source: Reporters without Borders. Reporters Without Borders has surveyed access to websites dedicated to the Uyghur community, including sites in the Uyghur language, in Mandarin and sometimes in English. These sites, operated by Uyghurs for Uyghurs, are for the most part inaccessible both to Internet users based in Xinjiang and those...
Democracy Resource Center Blog (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
URL: http://www.rsf.org/spip.php?page=article&id_article=23924 . Source: Reporters without Borders. In partnership with Reporters Without Borders and Chinese Human Rights Defenders, a Chinese Internet expert working in IT industry has produced an exclusive study on the key mechanism of the Chinese official system of online censorship, surveillance and propaganda. The author prefers to remain anonymous....
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Eritrea ranks at the very bottom of Reporters without Borders index of press freedom for 2009, released in October (see http://www.rsf.org/en-classement1003-2009.html), accompanied in the bottom five by North Korea, Turkmenistan, Iran, and Burma.
T Jantunen.com (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
internet marketing Egypt should not have been picked as the venue for a key net talking shop, say human rights activists. Reporters Without Borders said it was "surprised" that the Internet Governance Forum will take place in Egypt’s Sharm-el-Sheikh resort. Set up by the UN, about 1,400 participants are expected to attend the three day [...]
Yahyasheikho786's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Reporters Without Borders finds it surprising and disturbing that Egypt is hosting next week’s Internet Governance Forum, at which important decisions about the Internet’s future will be taken or announced. Representatives of foreign governments, international organisations, universities and ICANN (Internet Cooperation for Assigned Names and Numbers) are all due to attend the forum taking...
Yahyasheikho786's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders finds it surprising and disturbing that Egypt is hosting next week's Internet Governance Forum, at which important decisions about the Internet's future will be taken or announced. Representatives of foreign governments, international organisations, universities and ICANN (Internet Cooperation for Assigned Names and Numbers) are all due...
Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Reporters Without Borders calls on US President Barack Obama to put 10 questions about freedom of expression to his counterpart, Hu Jintao, during his visit to China. If President Obama asks these questions and gets answers and undertakings from the Chinese leader, the cause of free expression and press freedom will have progressed, the organisation said.
Taiwan Matters! (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
The list of signatories grows by almost 20% Writer Jerome F. Keating, Ph.D. and thirty other scholars and writers from the US, Canada, Asia, Europe and Australia have penned a fifth open letter about the serious problems occurring under the administration of President Ma Ying-jeou. The letter reminds us that "a decrease of tension across the Taiwan Strait would indeed be welcome, but [...] that...
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