Archive for the ‘Media and Journalism’ Category
April 27th, 2009 | Comments Off
The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) today condemned the continued detention of Christian blogger Hani Nazeer, who was arrested by State Security last October. His arrest was prompted by complaints from Muslims over material posted at his blog. ANHRI also alleges that the arrest “occurred with the collaboration of the Church in [his [...]
Tags: Blogging, Civil liberties, Coptic Church, Egypt, Persecution
Posted in Africa, Christianity, Media and Journalism, Religious Liberty/Persecution | Comments Off
More journalists and Hollywood stars burble on about Obama. Obama “walks into a room and you want to follow him somewhere, anywhere,” George Clooney gushed to Charlie Rose. “I’ll collect paper cups off the ground to make [Obama’s] pathway clear,” Halle Berry recently told the Philadelphia Daily News, “I’ll do whatever he says.” (Does Michelle [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Folly, Schmaltz
Posted in Media and Journalism, United States | 2 Comments »
March 25th, 2009 | 1 Comment
Internet users in the Far East are making fun of a Chinese government campaign against online pornography and other allegedly subversive material, and China has responded by trying to stamp out the satire. Chinese netizens are reacting angrily to reported attempts by government censors to stamp out a humorous form of protest against a recent [...]
Tags: Blogging, Censorship, China, Chutzpah, Folly, Internet
Posted in Asia-Pacific, Media and Journalism | 1 Comment »
March 23rd, 2009 | 1 Comment
This coming Friday, 27 March, British television series Unreported World will present a report about honour crime in Turkey. Unreported World travels to Turkey to investigate honour killings, which have now reached record levels, with more than 200 girls and women killed in the past year alone. And in a chilling new development, the programme [...]
Tags: Barbarism, Film and TV, Honour crime, Turkey
Posted in Asia-Pacific, Life Issues, Media and Journalism | 1 Comment »
March 23rd, 2009 | 1 Comment
“Forced To Marry” will be shown this evening on CBC Newsworld’s The Passionate Eye at 10 pm ET/PT. (11 pm Atlantic Time.) Presenter Saira Khan journeys to Pakistan and reports the stories of two British women of Pakistani descent who were coerced into marrying men they hardly knew. Entrepreneur and TV presenter Saira Khan travels [...]
Tags: Culture of life, Film and TV, Forced marriage, Pakistan
Posted in International, Life Issues, Media and Journalism | 1 Comment »
March 18th, 2009 | Comments Off
The Ministry of Islamic Affairs in the Maldives has been busy blocking access to dissident, Christian, and other unIslamic websites. Ironically, this occurs only one week after President Mohamed Nasheed announced his intention to make the Maldives a safe haven for oppressed journalists from other countries. The list of websites banned by Anni’s [Nasheed’s] government [...]
Tags: Blogging, Censorship, Civil liberties, Maldives, Persecution
Posted in Asia-Pacific, Christianity, Islam, Media and Journalism, Religious Liberty/Persecution | Comments Off
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) threatened to fine a company up to $11,000 per day over a link to an anti-abortion site on ACMA’s list of verboten websites. Nowhere does the lengthy news story in The Australian address the issue of why an anti-abortion site is on the “top-secret list of banned internet [...]
Tags: Abortion, Australia, Civil liberties
Posted in Asia-Pacific, Computers and technology, Media and Journalism | 4 Comments »
March 16th, 2009 | 1 Comment
Idrak Abbasov, the Azeri journalist who broke the story of Azerbaijan’s deliberate destruction of a medieval Armenian cemetery, has been subjected to an intense interrogation by state security agents. He was restrained and blindfolded before being aggressively questioned for hours, after which he had to be treated in hospital. He has been ejected from Nakhichevan, [...]
Tags: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Djulfa, Idrak Abbasov, Persecution
Posted in Europe, International, Media and Journalism | 1 Comment »
February 26th, 2009 | 1 Comment
Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Karim Masimov last month launched his personal blog and ordered his ministers to do likewise. However, the PM seems to have some issues with a common blog feature— comments. Since the launch, his blog has received thousands of comments, many of them critical of the government. So far so good. But [...]
Tags: Blogging, Central Asia, Folly, Kazakhstan
Posted in Asia-Pacific, Media and Journalism | 1 Comment »
February 18th, 2009 | 1 Comment
Pakistani reporter Musa Khan Khel has been shot dead in Swat Valley only two days after the government acceded to Taliban demands to enforce Sharia law in the area. He was abducted by unknown assailants while covering a “peace” rally by Taliban supporters. Reporters Without Borders has received information that his body was beheaded. Reporters [...]
Tags: Islamic teaching, Pakistan
Posted in Asia-Pacific, Islam, Media and Journalism | 1 Comment »
February 12th, 2009 | Comments Off
Manitoba chiefs want the provincial government to scrutinise the CBC because allegedly racist comments have been posted at CBC News online. Media organizations are creating a forum for online racism by allowing readers and bloggers to comment on stories on news websites, Manitoba First Nations leaders said Wednesday. So, allowing readers and bloggers to comment [...]
Tags: Aboriginal issues, CBC, Chutzpah, Human Rights Commissions, Manitoba
Posted in Canada, Canadian Politics and Government, Media and Journalism | Comments Off
February 8th, 2009 | 3 Comments
Dr Andrew Wakefield sparked a major international scare with his 1998 article purporting to find a link between autism and the triple vaccine against measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR). An in-depth investigation by The Sunday Times of London has discovered that his results were based on falsified data. The research was published in February 1998 [...]
Tags: Chutzpah, Health and medical, Methodology, The Lancet
Posted in Life Issues, Media and Journalism, Statistics, United Kingdom | 3 Comments »
February 6th, 2009 | 2 Comments
TelQuel, a Moroccan French-language weekly newsmagazine, has announced that its next issue, with a cover date of 6 February, will address a potentially volatile question: “The Quran: Is it really applicable ‘in all times and in all places’?” The cover article will specifically address such hot button topics as polygamy and jihad. The article is [...]
Tags: Chutzpah, Islamic teaching, Morocco, Quran
Posted in Africa, Islam, Media and Journalism | 2 Comments »
February 1st, 2009 | 4 Comments
A week ago, I posted an item about a long-running child custody battle that ended up in an Ontario court. Ten years after the parents split, Justice Faye McWatt ordered their three daughters taken from the mother and given into the sole custody of the father because of the mother’s relentless campaign to alienate them [...]
Tags: Blogging, Chutzpah, Hypocrisy, Marriage and family, Ontario
Posted in Canada, Life Issues, Media and Journalism | 4 Comments »
January 30th, 2009 | 1 Comment
A Detroit-area radio station is broadcasting messages by Father Zakariah Botros, and local Muslims claim he has “repeatedly defamed” Muhammed. So, do the protestors want to broadcast rebuttals of Fr Botros’s statements? Do they want to organise a public debate with the elderly Coptic priest? No, they just want to shut him up. Muslims and [...]
Tags: Civil liberties, Islamic teaching, Michigan, Zakaria Botros
Posted in Islam, Media and Journalism, United States | 1 Comment »