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Iqbal Tamimi - “Get-the-BLOG outta here.” Obstacles facing women journalists

By Iqbal Tamimi • May 13th, 2008 • Category: Internet and Communication, Opinions and Letters, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance

I have been asked many times why I switched to blogging after slaving for many years in journalism in the Middle East.
Many obstacles face women journalists in the Middle East, but on top of the list comes dedicated male efforts to exclude females from acquiring serious decision-making positions like that of Editor-in-Chief. Some still can’t [...]


Ramzy Baroud - Beyond Media Revolutions: Is Arab Media Truly Free?

By Ramzy Baroud • May 9th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Internet and Communication, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance

On February 12, 2008, Arab League information ministers issued a communique outlining ‘tough’ guidelines for Arab satellite channels. The new guidelines specifically prohibited the broadcasting of negative reporting of heads of state, religious or national figures.
In following days, a massive campaign of denunciation, led by those who felt targeted by the new policy, joined by [...]


Censorship and Press Freedom, Google & Blogger play dirty

By Mary Rizzo • May 5th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Internet and Communication, Palestine, Zionism

Today marks the celebration of International Day of Press Freedom. Like many celebrations that we are called to recognise, rather than feel joy at how wonderful things are, we are reminded of just how much goes haywire. Reporters Without Borders lists those killed in 2007. They write that there has been: 129 journalists, 7 media [...]


Google and Facebook Celebrate Israel’s 60th

By Haitham Sabbah • Apr 12th, 2008 • Category: Internet and Communication, Newswire, Zionism

President Shimon Peres is bringing in top personalities from around the world to celebrate Israel’s 60th birthday.
United States President George W. Bush, Barbra Streisand, Tony Blair, Mikhail Gorbachev and Rupert Murdoch…
The list of confirmed guests also includes Henry Kissinger, Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, former Czech President Vaclev Havel, Harvard Professor Alan Dershowitz, Google founder Sergey [...]


Looking for the King of Copy and Paste

By Mary Rizzo • Feb 13th, 2008 • Category: Hasbara Deconstruction Site, Internet and Communication, Israel, Zionism

By Miguel Martinez, Translated by Ernesto Páramo. Revised by author
Repubblica. Plus, they dedicated the whole of pages 10 and 11 to him.
Just a question… how much would it cost a run of the mill blogger to buy all that newspaper space?
Jewish web-page and put it on his blog (ten readers a day?) with this presentation:“THIS [...]