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Reporters Without Borders condemns the government’s confiscation yesterday of the latest issues of the Arabic-language weekly Nichane and the French-language weekly TelQuel for “failing to respect” King Mohammed. “Press freedom violations are mounting dangerously in Morocco,” the organisation said. “The political and judicial authorities must abandon this archaic practice of systematically...

Lucknow --- In the hearing related to Ambedkar Sports Complex, additional advocate general JN Mathur said that certain news items published on Friday in an English daily (TOI) regarding the stadium facilities were highly contemptuous. On this, the bench said that the government "could take appropriate action in law if it thinks so but the throat of media cannot be gagged in democracy". The bench...

A bakery handyman told police he killed Oakland Post Editor Chauncey Bailey because he was angered by his news stories, it was reported Saturday. Devaughndre Broussard, 19, confessed to the killing after he was one of seven people arrested Friday during a raid on Your Black Muslim Bakery and several homes, The Oakland (Calif.) Tribune reported Saturday. Broussard, who is on probation for a robbery...

New York, August 3, 2007—Journalists in Africa’s Comoros islands say they were prevented from traveling to the separatist island of Anjouan to cover Independence Day celebrations Friday. Local reporters say travel agencies refused to sell them airline tickets. Editor Ibrahim Ali Saïd Félix and cameraman Ismael Kassim of Djabal Télévision, a private station based on the main volcanic island of...

Reporters Without Borders voiced deep concern today about President Alexandre Lukashenko’s comments during a visit to the state-owned daily Sovietskaya Bielorussiya yesterday, when he said the government planned to increase its control of the Internet and “put an end to the anarchy” online. “We cannot allow this great technical success by humankind to become a news sewer,” Lukashenko said...

Reporters Without Borders today hailed a London appeal court’s decision on 30 July to quash a gagging order issued by judge Richard Aikens during a trial last May that banned the press from referring in their reports of the trial to the content of a leaked memo about a meeting between Tony Blair and George W. Bush in 2004. “We are pleased that the appeal brought by the BBC, The Guardian and 15...

NEW YORK -- Americans say the media is to blame for the saturation of celebrity coverage on TV, a new survey finds. The Pew Research Center for People & the Press said Thursday that 87% of respondents said celebrity scandals get way too much ink and airtime. Only 8% think the media gets the balance between celebrity and serious news right, while 2% told the surveyors that there wasn't enough...

The victims of last year's war between Hezbollah and Israel –on both sides– were treated as statistics not people. Although human victims of the war were mentioned in one out of every five articles, they were mostly covered as mere facts and figures. Almost 91 per cent of the articles covered killed and wounded civilians in a very or somewhat impersonal manner, a new study has found. Civilian...

Burma’s Press Scrutiny and Registration Board has prohibited non government newspapers and magazines in the country from carrying advertisements in all foreign languages except English. The ban comes in the aftermath of English-language Myanmar Times carrying an advertisement by a Denmark-based satirical art group with a hidden message calling the country's top military ruler Gen Than Shwe a...

A Spanish-language newscaster who had an affair with the mayor of Los Angeles has been suspended for two months for violating conflict-of-interest policies, her network said Thursday. Mirthala Salinas was having the relationship with Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa when she announced the news of his separation from his wife of 20 years on local Telemundo station KVEA, Channel 52, an Associated Press...