Archive for 'Journalism'
Egypt’s Islamist leaders accused of controlling media
The New York Times reports on several moves by government authorities in Egypt against journalists critical of the ruling Muslim Brotherhood. No surprise then that the Brotherhood has taken notes from Hosni Mubarak’s playbook in suppressing those critical of the regime.
Two cases are worrying observers. One involves the suspension of a satellite television channel that features a programme [...]
Posted: August 16th, 2012 under Islamism, Journalism.
Animus and Inversion: the Guardian turns the world upside down again
This is a guest post by Alan Johnson
On April 3 2011 Juliano Mer Khamis, the half-Jewish, half-Palestinian Israeli director of Jenin’s Freedom Theatre was assassinated by masked gunmen who shot him five times in the head. In today’s Guardian the playwright Howard Brenton leaves his readers with the impression that Israel may have done the [...]
Posted: June 13th, 2012 under Israel/Palestine, Journalism, antisemitism.
Robert Fisk Makes Things Up
So, finally, Private Eye has published the stories that everybody has heard, but nobody has put in print.
Robert Fisk is widely thought to be a fantasist of Johann Hari-esque proportions.
Hugh Pope, a former Independent colleague of Fisk’s, recently published a memoir of his three decades of reporting in the Middle East, Dining with al Qaeda. [...]
Posted: March 23rd, 2012 under Journalism.