Ethics and Freedom

New Delhi, July 3: Delhi High Court today set aside a lower court order convicting an Urdu newspaper jounalist on the ground that he had promoted feeling of hatred and dissatisfaction against the Government through his article 24 years ago. Justice Shiv Narayan Dhingra ruled that the lower court had erred in concluding from the article that it was against the goverment. The judge said ‘’I consider...

NEW DELHI: For the first time ever, the government has booked a criminal case against journalists associated with a sting operation. The case is on the 2005 cash-for-questions sting, which showed 11 MPs accepting money for putting up questions in Parliament. The expose was endorsed by Parliament which expelled the 11 MPs as well as by the Supreme Court which upheld their expulsion. No criminal...

TONOTA - Some Tonota residents have described media workers as heartless ambulance chasers who pursue tragic stories for headline news. During a kgotla meeting addressed by the Minister of Communications, Science and Technology, Mrs Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi, the residetns accussed the news media of focusing on sensational news without regard for the truth. Journalists do not take peoples feelings...

The editor of The Straits Times (ST) yesterday said this newspaper had done all it could to protect the identity of unnamed sources in its reports. Mr Han Fook Kwang added that although two journalists -- including one from ST -- recently complied with a court order to name their source, there should not be a "chilling effect" on the ability of Singapore journalists to obtain information. He was...

June 27, 2007 · A judge earlier this month disposed of a case brought by a group of journalists who sued the FBI after being attacked by agents while covering the agency's search of an apartment in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Chief U.S. District Judge Jose Antonio Fuste in San Juan granted the FBI's motion for summary judgment, finding that the agents were protected by a qualified immunity that...

Five Malian journalists who covered a high school essay assignment — and the teacher who commissioned the lesson — have been convicted of insulting President Amadou Toumani Toure, according to news reports and local journalists. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) condemned the verdicts, which stemmed from a classroom exercise about an imaginary presidential sex scandal, and called for the...

June 19 (Bloomberg) -- Josh Rushing has gone from Marine Corps spokesman (the role in which he appeared in the 2004 documentary ``Control Room'') to Washington-based reporter for Al Jazeera, known in some quarters as Osama bin Laden's favorite TV network. A profound conversion by most standards, though in his memoir ``Mission Al Jazeera'' Rushing argues it was a natural progression. A Texan who...

When it comes to accusations of Left-liberal bias, the BBC is a bit like an alcoholic. People have been sniggering about his drinking for years; he pretends not to notice. There have been complaints; he brushes them aside. Throwing up at that wedding reception? Someone spiked the punch. Propositioning the boss's wife? That was a joke. But, deep down, the drunk knows he has a problem. More to the...

LONDON, June 12--Prime Minister Tony Blair on Tuesday said the news media, driven by increasing competition and pressure from fast-changing technology, has largely abandoned impartial reporting in favor of sensation, shock and controversy, which he said demoralizes public servants and badly serves the public. "The fear of missing out means today's media, more than ever before, hunts in a pack,"...

The detention of Al-Jazeera assistant cameraman Sami Al-Haj, who tomorrow begins his sixth year without charge or trial in the US military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is “unconstitutional and contrary to international law,” Reporters Without Borders said today, describing the detention centre as “one the biggest legal and humanitarian scandals of recent years” and reiterating its call for its...