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FBI Seeks to Seize Control of Files of Deceased Investigative Journalist Jack Anderson

FBI agents last month sought to sift through the files of the late muckracking journalist Jack Anderson to take back those it deemed classified over concern they could hurt U.S. interests. We speak Jack Anderson’s son, Kevin, as well as George Washington University journalism professor, Mark Feldstein. [includes rush transcript]
Apr 26, 2006 | Story
Study Alleging Dominant Influence of Israeli Lobby Sparks Heated Fallout

In the recent study "The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy", two distinguished political science professors charge that the United States has willingly set aside its own security and that of many of its allies in order to advance the interests of Israel. In addition the study accuses the pro-Israeli lobby, particularly AIPAC of manipulating the U.S. media, policing academia and silencing critics of Israel by labeling them as anti-Semitic....
May 24, 2006 | Story
Anna Politkovskaya, Prominent Russian Journalist, Putin Critic and Human Rights Activist, Murdered in Moscow

On Saturday, Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya was shot dead at her apartment in Moscow. Anna was a correspondent for the Novaya Gazeta newspaper and was an outspoken critic of the Kremlin and its policies in Chechnya. Her reporting on the second Chechen war, torture, mass executions and kidnappings by Russian soldiers made her into one of the country’s most prominent human rights advocates. [includes rush transcript]
Oct 09, 2006 | Story
Shooting the Messenger is a War Crime

Amy’s column on the killing of journalists by the US military
Dec 28, 2006 | Columns & Articles
2006: A Deadly Year For Journalists

A new report from the Committee to Protect Journalists found that at least 55 journalists were killed this year in direct connection to their work. The most violent country was Iraq where 32 journalists lost their lives. [rush transcript included]
Dec 29, 2006 | Story
Bill Moyers: "Big Media is Ravenous. It Never Gets Enough. Always Wants More. And it Will Stop at Nothing to Get It. These Conglomerates are an Empire, and they are Imperial."

The veteran broadcast journalist Bill Moyers spoke on Friday before 3,500 at the opening of the National Conference on Media Reform in Memphis. He announced his return to the airwaves and outlined his vision of media reform. "As ownership gets more and more concentrated, fewer and fewer independent sources of information have survived in the marketplace; and those few significant alternatives that do survive, such as PBS and NPR, are under...
Jan 16, 2007 | Story
Veteran White House Correspondent Helen Thomas on the Escalation of the Iraq War, Jimmy Carter's New Book & the Failings of the Washington Press Corps

Commonly referred to as "The First Lady of the Press," Helen Thomas is the most senior member of the White House press corps and has covered every President since Kennedy. Democracy Now interviewed Thomas last week at the National Conference For Media Reform. [includes rush transcript]
Jan 22, 2007 | Story
Imprisoned Journalist Josh Wolf Released After Record 225 Days in Jail

Independent journalist Josh Wolf has been released from prison after spending over 225 days behind bars. The 24-year-old Wolf spent more time in jail than any journalist in US history for protecting his sources. In the first broadcast interview since his release, Wolf joins us from San Francisco. [includes rush transcript]
Apr 04, 2007 | Story
Journalists Covering Los Angeles Immigration March Assaulted by Police

The Los Angeles Police Department is coming under increasing criticism for violently crushing a largely peaceful immigrants rights march on Tuesday. Police dressed in riot gear fired 240 rounds of rubber and foam bullets as well as tear gas. Officers were seen on video clubbing protesters and journalists with batons. Overall, ten people — including several journalists — were taken to hospitals after being injured. [includes rush transcript]
May 03, 2007 | Story
Crackdown on the Press: General Musharraf Shuts Down Two of Pakistan's Biggest Private Television News Channels

Mazhar Abbas, the deputy director of one of the stations, ARY One World television, joins us in New York. He is also the secretary-general of the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists. He has been a well-known champion of press freedom over the past 27 years. [includes rush transcript]
Nov 19, 2007 | Story

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FBI Seeks to Seize Control of Files of Deceased Investigative Journalist Jack Anderson

Study Alleging Dominant Influence of Israeli Lobby Sparks Heated Fallout

Anna Politkovskaya, Prominent Russian Journalist, Putin Critic and Human Rights Activist, Murdered in Moscow

Shooting the Messenger is a War Crime

2006: A Deadly Year For Journalists

Bill Moyers: "Big Media is Ravenous. It Never Gets Enough. Always Wants More. And it Will Stop at Nothing to Get It. These Conglomerates are an Empire, and they are Imperial."

Veteran White House Correspondent Helen Thomas on the Escalation of the Iraq War, Jimmy Carter's New Book & the Failings of the Washington Press Corps

Imprisoned Journalist Josh Wolf Released After Record 225 Days in Jail

Journalists Covering Los Angeles Immigration March Assaulted by Police

Crackdown on the Press: General Musharraf Shuts Down Two of Pakistan's Biggest Private Television News Channels

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