Archive for the ‘Journalism’ Category

Another Howard Monath Report from the Front Lines of the Crisis in Bangkok

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

Picture by Howard Monath

Via facebook
“I’m going to spend wednesday talking to Reds…
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Latest Update About the Show Down in Bangkok

Monday, May 3rd, 2010

Howard Monath, Former D:F/M Film Instructor, in the Heart of the Crisis
Via facebook

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Car Bomb Updates/Corrections/Clarifications: NY Times & NY Daily News

Sunday, May 2nd, 2010

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Car Bomb in Times Square: Which One – NY Times, NY Daily News – Will Run a Correction?

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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FAIR: Best of the Blog Weekly Round Up – Some

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.
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Update From Bangkok Insurrection: Howard Monath, the WORD, & Chantal Ughi

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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“The Bullets Are Zinging Around” – Howard Monath in Bangkok (Armed with a Slingshot)

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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In Bangkok, Howard Monath Shoots Compelling Pictures: The Blood Is Real

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

Rubber bullets? I was born at night but not yesterday.

Pictures via Monath’s facebook page. Friends have been cautioning him about getting harmed. BBC America and other news agencies said late last night that a blowup could happen soon.

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Monath Responds to Question About His Safety by Smiling in the Face of Death?

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

Picture, Courtesy Howard Monath. From his facebook page.

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Another Update From Filmmaker Howard Monath in Bangkok

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

Via facebook about 9 minutes ago [about 11:55 p.m.].

Things are getting pretty rank at the Red Shirt encampment here in Bangkok. Seven weeks of garbage is piling up, portable toilets have backed up, and in the constant 100 degree heat the stench is becoming unbearable; people are getting sick. The Reds have doused their tire barricades with gasoline and vow to stay…

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