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Reporting Iraq: Journalists' Coverage of a Censored War February 7, 2008 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. The late British journalist James Cameron, known for his coverage of the Vietnam War, said of his journalism, "I may not have always been satisfactorily balanced; I always tended to argue that objectivity was of less importance than truth." It is these issues that are at the forefront of Reporting Iraq: An Oral History of the War by the Journalists Who Covered It. In one episode Rajiv Chandrasekaran of the Washington Post recalls the difficulty of getting any relevant information from the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA): "Well, off the record," CPA advisor Dan Senor told him, "Paris is burning, but on the record, security and stability are returning to Iraq." Mike Hoyt, co-editor of Reporting Iraq and executive editor of the Columbia Journalism Review recently sat down with AlterNet to discuss some of the major themes raised by these war-time journalists. MH: It was.
Le sens caché des discours Présidentielle oblige, dans quelques semaines, des heures de discours encombreront chaque jour les flux d'infos. Mais de nouveaux outils d'analyse existent pour "faire parler" ces textes écrits pour les foules. Démonstration avec les discours de 2007, qui révèlent quelques surprises. L’utilisation de logiciels d’analyse lexicale sur les discoursdes candidats à la présidentielle de 2007 met en évidence quelques surprises. Car l’analyse mathématique de leur langue, de leur parole au jour le jour, montre qu’ils abordent souvent des sujets éloignés des thématiques auxquelles leur personnalité publique est associée. Un peu comme si les règles du marketing politique gouvernant l’écriture des discours se trouvaient mises à nu. Une gauche plus à droite Pour Nicolas Sarkozy, les thématiques du travail, de l’école, des moyens, des enfants, de la République et de la morale sont majoritaires. Diversité quantitative Deux catégories de candidats se distinguent concernant l’utilisation des pronoms. Je
Secret order that let US ignore abuse A prisoner was kneeling on the ground, blindfolded and handcuffed, when an Iraqi soldier walked over to him and kicked him in the neck. A US marine sergeant was watching and reported the incident, which was duly recorded and judged to be valid. The outcome: "No investigation required." That was a relatively minor assault. Other logs record not merely assaults but systematic torture. This is the impact of Frago 242. Frago 242 appears to have been issued as part of the wider political effort to pass the management of security from the coalition to Iraqi hands. The systematic viciousness of the old dictatorship when Saddam Hussein's security agencies enforced order without any regard for law continues, reinforced by the chaotic savagery of the new criminal, political and sectarian groups which have emerged since the invasion in 2003 and which have infiltrated some police and army units, using Iraq's detention cells for their private vendettas. And it does continue.
Killing the Messenger: The Silencing of Journalism in Iraq “All kidnappings and assassinations are completely rejected… especially when kidnapping a journalist. Journalists are here to tell the world about the occupation so kidnapping a journalist is going to hide the truth … This journalist; Jill Carroll… is one of the great journalists who are against the occupation. She is considered one of the best journalists who stood against the American occupation of Iraq and she focused in her articles on… telling the world about the Iraqi people’s suffering”. (Muthanna Harith al-Dhari, Iraq’s Muslim Scholars Association.) After the mass destruction of the city of Basra in the 1991 U.S. war on Iraq – using massive amounts of fire bombs, napalm, cluster bombs and anti-personnel bombs –, journalists of Western mainstream media tried very hard to cover up Western war crimes and shift the blame elsewhere. As time passed, journalists sank deeper in dishonesty and complicity in the war crimes against the Iraqi people.
Iraq: Journalists in Danger - Reports CPJ compiled a detailed statistical profile of journalists and media workers killed on duty in , from the beginning of the invasion in March 2003 through October 2009. This analysis also includes data and capsules reports on journalists abducted from March 2003 through October 2009, and CPJ reports and background briefings. CPJ regularly updated this analysis during the first six years of the war. CPJ concluded its regular updates in October 2009, as media deaths and abductions subsided. • Media workers killed • Abductions • Background reports Below are data regarding journalist deaths. CPJ considers a journalist to be killed on duty if the person died as a result of a hostile action--such as reprisal for his or her work, or crossfire while carrying out a dangerous assignment. By Year:• 2009: 4 • 2008: 11 • 2007: 32 • 2006: 32 • 2005: 23 • 2004: 24 • 2003: 14 By Gender: • Men: 128 • Women: 11 By Circumstance: • Murder: 89 • Crossfire or other acts of war: 50
Journalists Killed in Iraq 164 Journalists Killed in Iraq since 1992/Motive Confirmed Statistical Analysis All figures are rounded to the nearest full percentage point. * May add up to more than 100 percent because more than one category applies in some cases. 164 Journalists Killed in Iraq/Motive Confirmed Terminology explained Muthanna Abdel Hussein, Al-Iraqiya March 10, 2014, in Hilla, Babylon province, Iraq Khaled Abdel Thamer, Al-Iraqiya Firas Mohammed Attiyah, Fallujah TV January 20, 2014, in Khalidiya, Iraq Jamal Abdul-Nasser Sami, Salaheddin TV December 23, 2013, in Tikrit, Iraq Raad Yassin Al-Baddi, Salaheddin TV Wassan Al-Azzawi, Salaheddin TV Nawras al-Nuaimi, Al-Mosuliya TV December 15, 2013, in Mosul, Iraq Kawa Garmyane, Rayel, Awene December 5, 2013, in Kalar, Sulaymaniyah, Iraq Wadih Sa'ad al-Hamdani, Baghdad TV November 27, 2013, in Basra, Iraq Alaa Edward Butros, Freelance November 24, 2013, in Mosul, Iraq Bashar al-Nuaimi, Al-Mosuliya TV October 24, 2013, in Mosul, Iraq Mohammed Ghanem, Al-Sharqiyah Khalid W.
Journalists in Iraq - A Survey of Reporters on the Front Lines After four years of war in Iraq, the journalists reporting from that country give their coverage a mixed but generally positive assessment, but they believe they have done a better job of covering the American military and the insurgency than they have the lives of ordinary Iraqis. And they do not believe the coverage of Iraq over time has been too negative. If anything, many believe the situation over the course of the war has been worse than the American public has perceived, according to a new survey of journalists covering the war from Iraq. Above all, the journalists—most of them veteran war correspondents—describe conditions in Iraq as the most perilous they have ever encountered, and this above everything else is influencing the reporting. A majority of journalists surveyed (57%) report that at least one of their Iraqi staff had been killed or kidnapped in the last year alone—and many more are continually threatened. Even the basics of getting the story are remarkably difficult.
Reporting From Iraq: The Toughest Assignment For the past six weeks, I have worked as the bureau photographer for The New York Times in Baghdad. This was my first visit to Iraq, and although I have worked in Afghanistan, Gaza and Yemen, I have found Iraq to be among the most difficult places to do my job. For now, much of the violence seems to have subsided and life is slowly improving. Markets, commercial areas and nightlife are blossoming. Occasional explosions and gunfire briefly shatter the calm, but people maneuver around the roadblocks and continue on their way to work or university. I have accessed some glimpses into the lives of Iraqi women. But fear lingers. The fear is what makes working here difficult. It is nearly impossible to photograph the aftermath of a street battle or IED. In any conflict zone, personal safety must come first. Despite all of this, Iraq has grown on me. Holly Pickett is a freelance photojournalist based in Cairo, Egypt.
All RISJ Publications Hard copies of our publications can be purchased from Amazon , the University of Oxford Online Store and I.B Tauris Here is a selection of publications published or co-published by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. The publications can be downloaded in PDF format, by clicking on the links, or right-clicking and choosing 'Save Target as...' to save the file directly to your computer. Trust and Journalism in a Digital Environment By Bernd Blöbaum This paper examines the relationship between trust and journalism. The Ethics of Journalism: individual, institutional and cultural influences Eds Wendy N. This volume provides a comparative global analysis of the ethical challenges faced by the media in the twenty-first century, considering the various individual, cultural and institutional influences facing practicing journalists. What If There Were No BBC Television? By Patrick Barwise and Robert G. By Helen Caple & Monika Bednarek Content Taxes in the Digital Age By Teresa Ashe Eds.