Nepal police stormed a community FM radio station, arrested four journalists and seized equipment in order to block a BBC interview with Maoist leader Prachanda late Sunday. "The legal action has been against Radio Sagarmatha as it has been found that topics prohibited or banned has been broadcast," state-run Radio Nepal quoted a statement by the Nepal information and communications ministry as...
WASHINGTON -- The hurricane season officially ended on November 20, yet there will be no respite for President George W. Bush. Having barely recovered from the fallout of Hurricane Katrina, the president is now facing the full brunt of Hurricane Al Jazeera. A document leaked to the London Daily Mirror reported that Bush raised the idea of bombing Al Jazeera's main offices in Doha, the capital of...
The British government has threatened editors with prosecution under the Official Secrets Act if they publish further details from a top secret memo that records US President George W Bush's intention of bombing the headquarters of Arab TV station Aljazeera in Qatar. This has been flayed far and wide. Aljazeera TV Lebanon staffers protest during a sit-in outside the pan-Arab satellite channel's...
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...
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...
Reporting on war and large-scale conflict is among the most challenging assignments reporters or photographers can face. Such experiences can have profound and lasting effects on a journalist. Dana Hull, a reporter for the San Jose Mercury News who covered the Iraq war for Knight Ridder in 2003, said: "Your war experience will just sort of live on in you, regardless of how many years it's been."...
US President George Bush planned to bomb Arab broadcaster Aljazeera, British daily the Daily Mirror has reported, citing a 10 Downing Street memo marked "Top Secret". The five-page transcript of a conversation between Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair revealed that the latter talked Bush out of launching a military strike on the station, unnamed sources told the daily. ZEALOUS ONLY OF...
AL-JAZEERA began broadcasting in 1996 but only achieved worldwide recognition after the September 11 terror attacks on New York and Washington in 2001. Western governments were horrified when the 24-hour satellite news channel screened messages from al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden. The station was also criticised for broadcasting the sickening beheadings of Western hostages by Iraqi insurgents. But...
BUTWAL, Nov 20 - A fierce debate ensued between local journalists and a team of Press Council currently in Butwal, monitoring the code of conduct for journalists, on Sunday. Local journalists criticized the council's chairman Mathabar Singh Basnet's remark that the government was forced to introduce new media ordinance due to difficult situation in the country. Basnet in his speech had said that...
