Thinking quote
By Mary Rizzo • May 30th, 2008 • Category: Quotes, ThinkingWe cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
Edward R Murrow (1908-1965), American Broadcast Newsman
Posts Tagged ‘press freedom’
Thinking quote
By Mary Rizzo • May 29th, 2008 • Category: Quotes, ThinkingIf you think there is freedom of the press in the United States, I tell there is no freedom of the press… They come out with the cheap shot. The press should be ashamed of itself. They should come to both sides of the issue and hear both sides and let the American people make [...]
Thinking quote
By Mary Rizzo • May 28th, 2008 • Category: Quotes, ThinkingWe owe to democracy, at least in part, the regime of discussion win which we live; we owe it to the principal modern liberties: those of thought, press and association. And the regime of free discussion is the only one which permits the ruling class to renew itself…which eliminates that class quasi-automatically when it no [...]
إقبال التميمي - أخبروا نقيب الصحفيين الفلسطينيين أنني أبحث عنه
By Iqbal Tamimi • May 19th, 2008 • Category: Internet and Communicationمسؤولة مكتب الحريات الصحفية / شبكة صحفيين في المهجر البريطانية
عندما التقيت بالسيد نقيب الصحفيين الفلسطينيين نعيم الطوباسي في مؤتمر اتحاد نقابات الصحفيين البريطانيين قبل حوالي شهر ونصف في إيرلندا، فرحت واستبشرت خيراً. خصوصاً بعد أن أعلن على الملأ وعلى المنصة دعمه الكامل للحريات الصحفية، وإنصاف زملاء المهنة. وعندما لوّح بالكوفية إلى أن التقطت كل كاميرا [...]
What has the dress got to do with the press?!
By Iqbal Tamimi • May 17th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Education, Internet and Communication, NewswireOn the second of May 2008 the Frontline Club in London supported the Press Freedom Network in UK under the patronage of the National Commission for the UNESCO and invited an array of journalists and media professionals from all over the country to vote on the motion ‘New Media is Killing Journalism’.
This initiative was held [...]
Thinking quote
By Mary Rizzo • May 14th, 2008 • Category: Quotes, ThinkingThe freedom to share one’s insights and judgments verbally or in writing is, just like the freedom to think, a holy and inalienable right of humanity that, as a universal human right, is above all the rights of princes.
Carl Friedrich Bahrdt (1740-1792) On Freedom of the Press and its Limits, 1787.
Censorship and Press Freedom, Google & Blogger play dirty
By Mary Rizzo • May 5th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Internet and Communication, Palestine, ZionismToday 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 [...]
