U.S. Media Complicit in U.S. Intimidation of Media

Discussing (5/31/09) the "story on the two U.S. journalists detained in North Korea," NPR Check's Mytwords states clearly that it "deserves coverage, as did some coverage of [Roxana] Saberi's arrest in Iran (though not the wall to wall attention given by NPR)." But a reader's link to the L.A. Times' May 24 "article on another irregular (illegal?) detention of a journalist" sheds light on a glaring double standard: Full Story »

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Patricia Blochowiak
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by Patricia Blochowiak - Jun. 6, 2009

If all links are read, this is an extensive indictment of U.S. media, including NPR, for failure to provided balanced coverage of attacks on journalists throughout the world, including those attacked by the U.S.

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