Category: Access & Censorship
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Iran Sheds Little Light on Fate of Missing Al Jazeera Reporter
Iran Says Missing Al Jazeera Reporter Committed Offenses
Iran said Tuesday it was pursuing the case of a missing Al Jazeera reporter, saying she had committed “several offenses,” including traveling without a valid passport.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/18/world/middleeast/18journalist.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
Iran said Tuesday that it was pursuing information about a missing Al Jazeera reporter sent to Tehran by the Syrian government in early May, saying she had committed “several offenses,” including traveling without a valid passport.
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White House Stops Post-Speech Photo Ops
“No caption can make a fake picture real,” he said. “A fake picture is a fake picture. We already have a big enough problem getting a reader to believe us. Our credibility is all that we have. That trust — once broken — is never fully recovered.”
Link: White House to Stop the Presidential Post-Speech Photo Opportunity – NYTimes.com
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Day 43: Captured Journalists Languish in Libya
Day 43: Captured Journalists Languish in Libya | PDNPulse
Freelance photographer Anton Hammerl remains unaccounted for in Libya, more than 40 days after Libyan authorities say they took him into custody. The lack of information has escalated concern among his family and friends about his health and safety. “All
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2011/05/day-43-captured-journalists-languish-in-libya.html
Freelance photographer Anton Hammerl remains unaccounted for in Libya, more than 40 days after Libyan authorities say they took him into custody.
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Photographers debate what should replace staged photo opps now that White House is ending the practice
If the White House moves to a pool, said Doug Mills, White House photographer for The New York Times, “we are taking one step forward — we get live coverage — and four steps backward — we will lose four photographers from the room. “
He continued, “We clearly lose out in terms of perspective. There will be no wide shots or risk-taking, for that matter.”
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World Press Photo winner appeals for Anton Hammerl's release
South African photographer Jodi Bieber has appealed to the international photography community to help spread the word about fellow countryman Anton Hammerl, a photographer that has been detained in Libya since 05 April
Link: World Press Photo winner appeals for Anton Hammerl’s release – British Journal of Photography
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AP Files Legal Request For Bin Laden Photos, Video
AP Takes Legal Actions to Get Dead Osama Photos – Novinite.com – Sofia News Agency
The Associated Press has filed a legal request for the photos of Osama Bin Laden’s dead body, citing the Freedom of Information Act. The agency also demands that it is provided with the video of the raid taken by the military personnel during the raid an
Link: http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=128005
The government has 20 days to respond.
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Nieman Foundation calls for release of Al Jazeera reporter Parvaz in Syria
Dorothy Parvaz, a 2009 Nieman Fellow, hasn’t been heard from since she landed in Damascus on assignment on April 29. Syrian officials have informed Al Jazeera that they’re holding her.
Link: Nieman Foundation calls for release of Al Jazeera reporter Parvaz in Syria | Poynter.
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history or his story?
I know this is a long standing tradition in the White House as to not let the camera clicking interfere with the message. It isn’t President Obama, and it dates back decades. Unfortunately, the message that is being sent when the cameras are clicking is being interfered with.
That is no longer an acceptable answer in my mind. It is falsifying history. What if – and just imagine – what if something were to happen during the re-enactment? Any slip of the tongue, a trip on the red carpet, a glance or subtle expression change all can dramatically alter what is real and what is news. It is going to take that kind of moment to change all of this staging of events. Essentially, the White House is determining what is history. What we see. What is real.
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The Deep Price of Censorship: White House Nixes Photo of bin Laden’s Body
The Deeper Price of Censorship: White House Nixes Photo of bin Laden’s Body – Reading The Pictures
We feel today’s action by the Administration must lead to the end of a false assumption, taken for granted by the President and leaders in both parties, that the snuffing out a critical and essential photo is somehow a zero-sum game.
via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2011/05/white-house-nixes-photo-of-bin-ladens-body/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Bagnewsnotes+(BAGnewsNotes)
We at BagNews are profoundly disappointed in the Administration’s decision to censor the photo of bin Laden’s body, just as we were disappointed when the Obama Administration censored the extended set of Abu Ghraib images it has in its possession.
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From White House To Pakistan, Photos Play Strange Role In Bin Laden Drama
Issues surrounding photography and the “truth” of news pictures have become an unusual storyline running throughout this week’s coverage of America’s commando attack on Osama bin Laden’s compound, and the White House’s handing of both press photographers here and pictures of the terrorist’s body overseas.
Link: From White House To Pakistan, Photos Play Strange Role In Bin Laden Drama
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Osama Bin Laden Death Photos: Why Death Photos Tempt Us – Speakeasy – WSJ
Why Death Photos Matter
Osama bin Laden was killed a few days ago, and today the White House announced it will not release an image of his corpse. A look at the impact of other famous death images–and what they say about us.
via WSJ: http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2011/05/04/why-we-want-to-look-death-in-the-face/
It is easy and convenient to dismiss our desire to record and to see as primitive. The outrage over the Kill Team photographs is perfectly understandable, but we need to understand a few things.
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Reuters, AP photojournalists describe staging of Obama photo taken after TV announcement of bin Laden’s death
That means the photograph that appeared in many newspapers Monday morning of Obama speaking may have been the staged shot, captured after the president spoke. This type of staging has been going on for decades.
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White House upset with SF Chronicle for posting protest video
Chronicle editor Ward Bushee says the White House has threatened to exclude the paper from pooled coverage of its Bay Area events because it posted a video of last week’s protest at a San Francisco fundraiser for President Obama
Link: White House upset with SF Chronicle for posting protest video | Poynter.
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CBS Reporter Talks About Her Assault in Egypt
CBS Reporter Recounts a ‘Merciless’ Assault
Lara Logan is expected to speak on “60 Minutes” Sunday about being sexually assaulted by a mob in Cairo.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/29/business/media/29logan.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
Lara Logan thought she was going to die in Tahrir Square when she was sexually assaulted by a mob on the night that Hosni Mubarak’s government fell in Cairo.
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Journalists Detained in Libya Finally Contact Families
Journalists Detained in Libya Finally Contact Families | PDNPulse
Three of four journalists detained nearly three weeks ago by forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi have finally been able to call their families to report that they are OK–but still locked up in a jail in Tripoli with little indication of when the
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2011/04/journalists-detained-in-libya-finally-contact-families.html
Spanish photographer Manuel Varela de Seijas Brabo was arrested April 5 along with American reporters James Foley, a correspondent for the online news site GlobalPost, and Clare Morgana Gillis, a freelancer who had been in Libya reporting for The Atlantic and USA Today. South African photographer Anton Hammerl was detained separately on the same day.
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Christian protesters destroy Andres Serrano’s Piss Christ in France
Piss Christ, the long-controversial photograph by Andres Serrano depicting a crucifix submerged in urine, has been attacked once again by Christian protestors
Link: Christian protesters destroy Andres Serrano’s Piss Christ in France | dvafoto
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Four Journalists Still Missing In Libya
Libya: Four Missing Journalists
It’s been a week since the American journalists Clare Morgana Gillis, James Wright Foley, freelancers reporting for TheAtlantic.com and GlobalPost, …
via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/04/libya-four-missing-journalists.html
It’s been a week since the American journalists Clare Morgana Gillis, James Wright Foley, freelancers reporting for TheAtlantic.com and GlobalPost, respectively, and their Spanish and South African colleagues Manuel Varela de Seijas Brabo and Anton Hammerl, both photographers, were captured by Qaddafi’s forces near the eastern Libyan oil town of Brega.
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AP photographer located in Libya
Altaf Qadri was safe and unhurt
Link: Nation & World | AP photographer located in Libya | Seattle Times Newspaper
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Libya Expected to Release Four More Captured Journalists
Libya Expected to Release Four More Captured Journalists | PDNPulse
Four journalists, including two photographers, who were detained on Tuesday by forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi will soon be released, according to a report just published by GlobalPost.com. Qaddafi’s chief spokesperson has said the journalis
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2011/04/libya-expected-to-release-four-more-captured-journalists.html
Those detained included freelance photographers Manu Brabo of Spain and Anton Hammerl of South Africa; and reporters James Foley of the online news site GlobalPost and Clare Morgana Gillis, an American freelancer.