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KAMPALA, Nov. 24 (Xinhuanet) -- The Ugandan government has slapped a ban on all media houses against debating or holding talk-shows on cases pending before court, including that of opposition leaderKiiza Besigye currently facing treason charges. Minister of State for Information Nsaba Buturo told Xinhua by telephone on Thursday that the ban took immediate effect and threatened to close down any...

More than 70 per cent of newspapers in the United States accept classified advertisements for all guns from unlicensed sellers � rifles, shotguns, and handguns. Less than 20 per cent newspapers do not take classified ads for guns from unlicensed sellers, according to a report by the Campaign to Close the Newspaper Loophole. Between April-November 2005, the Campaign to Close the Newspaper Loophole...

London, 24 Nov. (AKI) - The widow of Tariq Ayyoub, the journalist from satellite TV network Al Jazeera, who was killed when the station's Baghdad offices were bombed in 2003, says she is considering sueing the US government over his death. The revelation follows reports in British newspaper The Daily Mirror, that US president George W. Bush planned to bomb Al Jazeera's headquarters in Qatar but...

Many years ago, a veteran editor at what was then the Chandler-owned Los Angeles Times made the following observation about that family and its dividends from this newspaper: "They're either rolling in it, or they're really rolling in it. And when they're only rolling in it, they start to panic." The era when insufficiently huge newspaper profits would give the shivers only to the members of a...

Poland’s two leading newspapers have blacked out large sections of their front pages Wednesday in an eye-catching protest against media repression in neighboring Belarus, Associated Press reported. The main pages of Gazeta Wyborcza and Rzeczpospolita looked as if a censor had taken a black marker to them, with most text and photographs crossed out. Amnesty International, which led the protest...

BERLIN - Gerhard Schroeder, German chancellor for the past seven years until this week, is to join Switzerland's leading newspaper group, Ringier, as a political consultant and lobbyist, working at its offices in Zurich one or two days a week. The ex-chancellor, 61, who resigned his seat in the German Bundestag after handing over to successor Angela Merkel on Tuesday, would take up the post on...

What the heck's going on here? Bob Woodward -- the Bob Woodward -- is now making news instead of breaking it. The Washington Post's bigfoot reporter has made a cameo appearance as The Deposed in the ever-expanding Joe Wilson-Valerie Plame-Bob Novak-Scooter Libby-Judith Miller Follies written, directed and prosecuted by Pat Fitzgerald. Ziegfield never had such a cast, and now it includes an icon of...

London, 24 Nov. (AKI) - The widow of Tariq Ayyoub, the journalist from satellite TV network Al Jazeera, who was killed when the station’s Baghdad offices were bombed in 2003, says she is considering sueing the US government over his death. The revelation follows reports in British newspaper The Daily Mirror, that US president George W. Bush planned to bomb Al Jazeera’s headquarters in Qatar but...

MONTEVIDEO, Nov 22 (IPS) - How can problems like poverty, education, health, the environment and gender equality make it to the front pages of newspapers or onto radio and TV newscasts? When put to journalists, the question tends to elicit a long litany of complaints of the difficulties they face in reporting on issues that the media do not consider "newsworthy". The role of the media in providing...

United States media organisations are now skewering President George Bush over his case for ousting Saddam Hussein, but few questioned the pro-war juggernaut in the run-up to battle. Now, with the White House's once-feared public-relations machine misfiring, Bush's approval ratings plumbing their lowest depths and US troops still dying in foreign fields, many commentators and journalists are...