WASHINGTON Aaron Klein, WND's Jerusalem bureau chief, was prevented today from entering Syria, where he planned to interview officials from Syria, Lebanon and the U.S., as well as co-host ABC Radio's nationally syndicated "The John Batchelor Show," because, according to at least one official in the Syrian embassy, he's Jewish. Klein, an American citizen whose family has resided in the United...
NEW YORK A Syrian journalist often used as a fixer for Western news outlets has taken responsibility for a Cox News Service story that contained fabricated quotes and plagiarized material. George Baghdadi, a Syrian who has worked for USA Today and Time magazine, among other Western news outlets, took responsibility for the errors in an e-mail to Cox Newspapers' Washington Bureau Chief Andy...
On November 17, Britain’s Guardian newspaper ran a statement in its Corrections and Clarifications column announcing the removal from its website of an interview with Noam Chomsky. The interview, conducted by Emma Brockes, was published in the Guardian’s October 31 edition after Chomsky, a professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was voted the world’s top intellectual...
Rupert Murdoch's Fox News network has been slapped with a sexual harassment lawsuit by the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The suit charged a senior official of the network of harassing and discriminating against its female employees, creating a "hostile work environment because of their sex." The EEOC claimed that a Fox vice president, Joe Chillemi, "routinely used gross...
The new Divya Bhaskar campaign has attracted more than just media attention. The campaign used statements made by media practitioners on Divya Bhaskar's growth. While, on the one hand, competition like Gujarat Samachar has taken serious objection to this, the professionals whose quotes have been used insisted that they were not informed that these were to be used as testimonials in these ads...
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Press Council of India (PCI) on Thursday accepted a petition against leading vernacular daily Malayala Manorama for allegedly tricking "thousands of people" in investing with a company the paper had reportedly backed. Thomas T. George, a petitioner representing the Integrated Finance Company Depositors Association (IFCDA) had filed the petition against being misled in...
Kochi (Kerala) : A court Friday issued summons to the Madyamam newspaper in a defamation case filed by Malayala Manorama chief editor K.M. Mathew. The Ernakulam first class judicial magistrate asked respondent Madyamam and its editor and others to appear before it Oct 3. This is the second newspaper that Manorama has taken to court in the past one week. Last week the same court had issued summons...
NEW DELHI, August 22: Two news channels and an English daily have been held guilty of revealing the identity of the minor boy involved in the MMS sex scandal by a juvenile court here. The court said they had they tried to sensationalise the case for "commercial gains". Juvenile Justice Board Principal Magistrate Santosh Snehi Mann, in her 31-page order, said, "NDTV, ZEE TV and Times of India had...
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp has taken its row with Nielsen Media Research over the new US TV ratings system all the way to Capitol Hill, claiming black and Hispanic viewers are being undercounted. Nielsen, which tracks TV viewing throughout the US, has been replacing the paper diaries it has used since the 1950s with electronic people meters in the 10 largest local TV markets. Since Nielsen began...
Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 10 (IANS) A leading Malayalam daily Wednesday said it was not linked "legally or morally" to a finance company that has gone bust. Malayala Manorama editor and managing director Mammen Mathew said in an e-mail to IANS that it was unfortunate that a section of the Kerala media was wrongly portraying the failed company, Integrated Finance Company Limited (IFCL), as a Malayala...
