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MEXICO
The Voice of the Community Faces Numerous Threats
By Emilio Godoy
MEXICO CITY - The Jenpoj ("winds of fire) community radio station in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, which plays an important role in keeping the Mixe indigenous community informed, has had its equipment confiscated and has fought and won a court case to get a broadcast license.
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Fears for South Africa's Press Freedom
By Chris Stein
JOHANNESBURG - International media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders ranks South Africa's press as among the freest on the continent. Two proposed new measures are drawing unfavourable comparisons to repressive laws in Zimbabwe and Ethiopia.
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MEXICO
Threats Against Journalists: "You're Vulnerable, and It's Hard to Accept"
By Daniela Pastrana
MEXICO CITY - "The threats change your whole life," said Jade Ramírez, a journalist who has been living for months with that burden, which also hangs over a growing group of her colleagues in Mexico.
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U.S. Journalist To Be Deported From Turkey
By Sanjay Suri
LONDON - Jake Hess, a U.S. freelance journalist who also wrote for IPS on Kurdish rights within Turkey, is to be deported following a government order.
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HONDURAS
Rights Situation Deteriorates
By Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON - Six months after the inauguration of President Porfirio Lobo, the human rights situation in Honduras continues to deteriorate, according to two major New York-based groups.
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SUDAN
Fear Campaign Reported Ahead of Referendum
By Eli Clifton
WASHINGTON - With less than six months before the residents of southern Sudan vote on a reform which is expected to result in the cessation of South Sudan from the north, a new report implicates Sudan’s security services in "carrying out a brutal campaign of arbitrary detentions, torture, and mental and physical intimidation" against opponents of the government.
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CNN's Objectivity Questioned in Sacking of Mideast Reporter
By Eli Clifton
WASHINGTON - CNN's firing of Octavia Nasr, the editor responsible for the network's Middle East coverage, over a Twitter post in which she expressed her sadness over the death of a Lebanese cleric has set off a firestorm of debate about what the decision says about CNN's fairness in reporting on the region.
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MEXICO
Local Media in the Line of Fire
By Emilio Godoy
MEXICO CITY - It is open season on local media in states and cities in the interior of Mexico, which are virtually unprotected against violent attack and have been the worst hit by the murders of at least eight journalists this year.
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No Free Press for BP Oil Disaster
By Dahr Jamail
NEW ORLEANS - Last week, the U.S. Coast Guard, working in concert with oil giant BP, instituted new restrictions across the U.S. Gulf Coast that prevent the media from coming within 20 metres of booms or response vessels on beaches or water. But the insidiousness of the restrictions runs even deeper.
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MEDIA
Mobile Journalism on the Rise in Asia
By Kara Santos
MANILA - What do the protests in Burma, bombings in Jakarta, the recent earthquake in Haiti and the massive devastation left by typhoon Ketsana in the Philippines have in common?
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Virtual Diversity in Cuban Blogosphere
By Dalia Acosta
HAVANA - There are blogs made in Cuba, and many more Cubans living abroad who blog, both in favour of or against the Cuban government. Caught up in the sea of political passions, the hundreds of blogs about this socialist island nation reflect a growing variety of viewpoints and realities.
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MEDIA-ISRAEL
Beatings, Abuse, Doctored Evidence Emerge
By Mel Frykberg
RAMALLAH - Although Israel successfully controlled news of its deadly commando raid on the Free Gaza (FG) flotilla during the first crucial 48 hours of media coverage, emerging evidence from witnesses and survivors is challenging the Israeli government's version of events.
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THAILAND
In Wake of Crackdown, Anger Peaks against Foreign Media
By Lynette Lee Corporal*
BANGKOK - Resentment here toward the foreign media had been simmering in the wake of the Thai government’s crackdown against protesters in May, but it nearly came to a boil when Thai panelists aired their frustrations recently about what they called western bias, misunderstandings of the Thai political culture and reporting that tried to fit events into a bad-versus-evil contest.
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Israel Censors News on Deadly Flotilla Raid
By Mel Frykberg
TEL AVIV - Attempts by media to interview some of the hundreds of Free Gaza (FG) members, who were being deported from Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion International Airport, Wednesday, were thwarted by Israeli authorities.
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MEDIA-PAKISTAN
Netizens Argue for the Right to Decide
By Farah Zahidi Moazzam*
KARACHI, Pakistan - While there was no question that the visual depictions of the Prophet Mohammad on Facebook hit a raw nerve among devout Muslims all over the world, the debate here in Pakistan has been all about whether the government should be the one making choices for its Internet users.
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Journalism is dangerous work. Dozens of reporters and other media workers are killed in the line of duty each year. Hundreds more face threats, intimidation, and harassment as they risk their lives to let us know what is going on in war zones and as they root out corruption. In the Information Age, the Internet provides us with new ways to disseminate the news even as it poses new threats to press freedoms.