WAR & THE MEDIA ARCHIVE :

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Stars and Stripes, 29 Aug 09, by Leo Shane III
Army used profiles to reject reporters
'The secret profiles commissioned by the Pentagon to rate the work of journalists reporting from Afghanistan were used by military officials to deny disfavored reporters access to American fighting units or otherwise influence their coverage as recently as 2008, an Army official acknowledged Friday.'

Christian Science Monitor, 15 Jul 09, by Ilene R. Prusher
Why Palestinian leaders have banned Al Jazeera
'Ahead of a major Fatah leadership conference, the Arab TV network reported Tuesday that President Mahmoud Abbas had been involved in an assassination plot against his predecessor, Yasser Arafat.'

Asia Times, 16 Jul 09, by Antoaneta Bezlova
Beijing can't bury the Xinjiang story
'Unlike the Tibetan riots last year, when the media were initially told to suppress the story, the clashes between Han Chinese and Muslim Uyghurs that erupted in the provincial capital of Urumqi on July 5 was widely reported. In many ways, this is symbolic of the profound changes taking shape in this fast-developing society, which the communist mandarins can no longer fully control.'

Washington Post, 27 Jun 09, by Ariana Eunjung Cha
Authoritarian Regimes Censor News From Iran
'Out of fear that history might repeat itself, the authoritarian governments of China, Cuba and Burma have been selectively censoring the news this month of Iranian crowds braving government militias on the streets of Tehran to demand democratic reforms.'

Washington Post, 17 Jun 09, by Mike Musgrove
Twitter Is a Player In Iran's Drama
'The State Department asked social-networking site Twitter to delay scheduled maintenance earlier this week to avoid disrupting communications among tech-savvy Iranian citizens as they took to the streets to protest Friday's reelection of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.'

AP, 03 Jun 09
US military tweets news from Afghanistan
'The U.S. military is putting Twitter, along with Facebook and YouTube, into its arsenal of weapons for getting out its side of the Afghan story, reaching the online generation and countering the Taliban's own fast-growing Web-site and text-messaging skills.'

Christian Science Monitor, 27 May 09, by Heba Aly
In Somalia, African Union takes the offensive in information war
'AMISOM is rehabilitating Radio Mogadishu and publishing articles to "empower" Somalis and push back against Islamist insurgents.'

Christian Science Monitor, 03 May 09, by Jane Arraf
My Iraq: a reporter's 20-year retrospective
'The longest-serving Western correspondent in Baghdad tracks the lives of two Iraqi friends – from dinners under the moon and palms to the heartbreak of war.'

Washington Post, 16 Apr 09, by Rama Lakshmi
Journalists From India, Pakistan Analyze Role
'Nearly five months after the deadly attacks in Mumbai that revived tensions between India and Pakistan, journalists from both countries gathered in New Delhi on Wednesday to examine their role in fueling regional hostilities.'

Asia Times, 16 Apr 09, by Shawn W Crispin
Smoke, mirrors and lies
'Foreign reporters have perpetuated the notion that Thailand's is a rural poor versus urban elite struggle, with exiled former premier Thaksin Shinawatra the champion of the former. The conflict is more accurately portrayed as a struggle between competing elites, both able to mobilize disruptive masses and jockeying for position in the next round of a dangerously escalating and wholly unresolved conflict.'

International Herald Tribune, 25 Jan 09, by Ethan Bronner
In this Mideast tragedy, reporters are the despised chorus
'After Israel's three-week air, sea and land assault in Gaza, aimed at halting Hamas rocket fire, it is worth pausing to note how difficult it has been to narrate this war in a fashion others view as neutral, and to contemplate what that means for any attempt by the new Obama administration to try to end it.'

2008 War and the Media archive
2007 War and the Media archive