- Hardcover: 300 pages
- Publisher: PROMETHEUS BOOKS; illustrated edition edition (Aug 30 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 159102305X
- ISBN-13: 978-1591023050
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.4 x 2.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 522 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,513,679 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This hard-hitting collection shows that pressure and persecution are still inescapable aspects of a journalist's job description. Dadge (Casualty of War: The Bush Administration's Assault on a Free Press) gathers 14 mostly first-person stories from journalists about the obstacles and threats they have faced. Many of the reports concern underdeveloped countries-like Charles Arthur's account of the murder of Haitian radio journalist Jean Dominique, and Andrew Meldrum's portrait of Zimbabwe's campaign to demolish independent media-and follow the traditional, lamentable script of state repression. But Dadge also includes examples of the subtle but effective censorship imposed by private interests on Western journalists, including Tom Gutting's dismissal from the Texas City Sun for criticizing President Bush's handling of 9/11 in an opinion column, Stephen Kimber's account of the ideological strictures imposed by the Asper family on its Canadian newspaper chain, and Jasper Becker's story of the undermining of Hong Kong's once proud South China Morning Post by owners who toe the Beijing line to protect their Chinese investments. The journalists take on a range of targets, from bureaucrats to media conglomerates as well as their own colleagues' lazy collusion with official sources. The result is a vigorous defense of press freedoms by journalists who are unafraid to confront the powers that be. Photos.
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What happens to journalists who expose uncomfortable truths? How far are journalists prepared to go in order to report a difficult story? "Silenced" provides answers to these questions with the stories of journalists who risked their careers so that the public might be informed. From China, where Jasper Becker, formerly Beijing bureau chief of the South China Morning Post, fought a lonely and unsuccessful battle against owners willing to soften the newspaper's reporting of the Chinese government in the hope of protecting mainland investments, to Zimbabwe where the harsh treatment of the Guardian's Andrew Meldrum led to him being arrested and forcibly deported from the country because he dared criticise President Robert Mugabe, "Silenced" is a forcible reminder of the risks - both personal and financial - accepted by the media on our behalf. In other parts of the world, journalists face more traditional problems. When faced with the threat of censorship, all of these journalists reacted in a similar manner - they chose to report and face the consequences. They decided to place the ethics of journalism above all other considerations. As such they are proof that press freedom cannot exist without those who are willing to uphold its fundamental principals. "Silenced" is more than a book on the media. It is an expression of the bravery and persistence of journalists everywhere.
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Media Censorship around the world., Oct 15 2005
By John Matlock "Gunny" - Published on Amazon.com
Ce commentaire est de: Silenced International Journalists Expose Media Censorship (Hardcover)
The people writing the constitution of the United States were pretty bright people. They had come from a climate where fundamental freedoms were denied. So they put in a few amendments. The first, is on freedom of speech. And as the editor of this book says in his introductory chapter, four little words 'or of the press' made a lot of things happen that wouldn't have be possible otherwise -- Watergate for instance.
In this book he has selected, mostly, a series of articles on what happened to reporters who reported who reported something their governments didn't want published. These are mostly international where there is neither a tradition or a guarantee of freedom of the press. The reporters writing the articles say that they are mistreated by the governments for exposing governmental misconduct.
Yes, I expect that this is what happens. George Washington's remarks on government being an instrument of force, not of reason comes to mind. Governments from the UN to the local school board don't want all their actions brought to light. Where 'or of the press' isn't applicable this is what you have to expect.
In the articles from the United States there doesn't seem to be a lot of governmental influence, it's the reporters not writing what the owners want. That's the way capitalism works. If you want to print what the owner doesn't want, you are welcome to start your own news service (and the web has made this very cheap to do).
And after debating these issues where reports are exposing crime and corruption at risk to themselves, why is the headline in my local paper today about the teacher's union and the school board arguing about pay. Can't they find any scandals?
I find that I also want to ask if this editor, very anxious to defend the first amendment, will also defend the second on bearing arms.
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SILENCED: International Journalists, Sep 20 2005
By Professor Alfredo Pastor - Published on Amazon.com
Ce commentaire est de: Silenced International Journalists Expose Media Censorship (Hardcover)
The topic is interesting, but most of the stories were very commonplace, involving disagreements between ownership and editorial policy. Compared with Into the Buzzsaw, a book dealing with the same topic, this one overemphasizes journalists' complaints; as such, the book obscures rather the big issue of freedom of the press.
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