Archive for the ‘Journalism’ Category
Tuesday, May 4th, 2010
Via facebook
2 minutes ago [12:25 EST]
Funny, it seems counter intuitive, but the closer you are to a story and the more access you have , like here with the Thai Red Shirts, the more you rely on outside sources for information ( or at least corroboration )
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Tags:crisis in Bangkok, crisis in Thailand
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Sunday, May 2nd, 2010
NY Daily News said two female cops were heroes for discovering a man fumbling with something in the back of a Nissan in Times Square and stopped the car bomb from detonating. The NY Times said “explosive materials were discovered by a mounted police officer who saw a “box with smoke pouring from it in the back of the Pathfinder” and called for backup.
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Tags:car bomb, Times Square
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Saturday, May 1st, 2010
FAIR, the national media watch group offering well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship. since 1986.
Someone Has to Defend Goldman Sachs
4/26/2010 by Peter Hart
And that someone is Fareed Zakaria, in columns published in the Washington Post (“Cool the Goldman Rage”) and in the Post-owned Newsweek. Zakaria is unimpressed by the SEC’s fraud case against Goldman Sachs; he likens the firm’s mortgage securities bonds to someone placing a bet against the New York Yankees.
Click here for article.
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Tags:DOJ, FAIR blog, Fareed Zakaria, Goldman Sachs, Newsweek, Obama, Thomas Drake, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington Post
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Saturday, May 1st, 2010
[Thai ‘Red Shirt’ protester arrested over Facebook post | Metro.co.uk www.metro.co.uk A Facebook post has led to a Thai ‘Red Shirt’ protester being arrested by police claiming that Wipas Raksakulthai insulted the kingdom’s royal family on the social networking site.
yesterday.]
Via facebook, Pictures by Howard Monath.
Hunter Word Yo, Howard, Don’t “insult” anyone.
Yesterday at 1:01pm

"Rubber bullets? I was born at night but not yesterday" - Howard Monath
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Tags:crisis in Bangkok, crisis in Thailand, red shirts, Thailand
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Friday, April 30th, 2010
Via facebook:

Picture Taken Before the Latest Bullets Zinging
— [To] Lucia Siposova: Hi Lucia! I’m in the middle of a revolution in Bangkok Thailand, ‘Red Shirt’ peasants ( they gave me a sling shot ) against the Thai army: the bullets are zinging around..how are you?
45 minutes ago · See Wall-to-Wall
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Tags:crisis in Bangkok, crisis in Thailand, Howard Monath
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Thursday, April 29th, 2010

Picture, Courtesy Howard Monath. From his facebook page.
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