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Roots of Impunity

Thu, 2013-05-23 01:14
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Committee to Protect Journalists
3. Intimidation, Manipulation, and Retribution

A couple of years ago, Hamid Mir, Najam Sethi, Umar Cheema, and other prominent figures in the news media began going public with the threats they were receiving from intelligence agencies. It was a risky calculation, but the silence, they reasoned, encouraged intimidation and allowed impunity to persist.

Roots of Impunity

Thu, 2013-05-23 01:14
Journalist: 
Committee to Protect Journalists
Conclusion

The murder of Saleem Shahzad in May 2011 galvanized journalists across Pakistan in a way that few other events have. For a short time their power as a "union" was felt. They secured a commission of inquiry. They named ISI officers who had threatened Shahzad and many other journalists. They detailed those encounters in a public record available on the Internet. The resulting report offers a series of promising recommendations, saying in part:

Roots of Impunity

Thu, 2013-05-23 01:14
Journalist: 
Committee to Protect Journalists
Introduction

By Bob Dietz

At least 42 journalists have been killed--23 of them murdered--in direct relation to their work in Pakistan in the past decade, CPJ research shows. Not one murder since 2003 has been solved, not a single conviction won. Despite repeated demands from Pakistani and international journalist organizations, not one of these crimes has even been put to a credible trial.

Roots of Impunity

Thu, 2013-05-23 01:14
Journalist: 
Committee to Protect Journalists
Sidebar: Verbatim: Threats, Promises, and Fears

"No half-hearted police measures or words of consolation from the highest offices in the land will suffice in the aftermath of the brutal treatment meted out to journalist Umar Cheema of The News."

--Editorial in the newspaper Dawn condemning the September 2010 abduction and beating of Cheema. Intelligence agents were suspected in the attack. No arrests were made.

Roots of Impunity

Thu, 2013-05-23 01:14
Journalist: 
Committee to Protect Journalists
1. The Murder of Wali Khan Babar

On January 13, 2011, Wali Khan Babar, a 28-year-old correspondent for Geo TV, was driving home after covering another day of gang violence in Karachi. Babar was an unusual face on the airwaves: Popular and handsome, he was a Pashtun from Zhob in Baluchistan near the border with Afghanistan. For Geo, it was a rare boon to have a Pashtun in Karachi, and so the station planned to send him abroad for training to become an anchor.

U.S. for first time acknowledges role in deaths of Americans in drone strikes

Thu, 2013-05-23 00:59
Miami Herald

The Obama administration confirmed for the first time on Wednesday that four Americans have died in U.S. drone strikes since 2009, but it sought to justify the killing of only one – a senior leader of al Qaida’s Yemen-based affiliate – and said nothing about the other three except to acknowledge indirectly that they’d been killed by accident.

Melinda Emerson: Top 30 Small Business Champions to Follow on Twitter

Wed, 2013-05-22 22:39
Journalist: 
Melinda Emerson

If you want to stay ahead of your competition, you should keep your small business toolbox stocked with the latest and greatest news and innovations. And when it comes to technology, industry trends and how they positively or negatively affect your business there are only few people who are trusted authorities. These experts share their knowledge to teach you how to be better in business. Here is a list of the top 30 small business champions to follow on Twitter.

Linda Howard Urbach: Martha Stewart's Match.com Reject Shares His Pain

Wed, 2013-05-22 21:54
Journalist: 
Linda Howard Urbach

Continuing in my series on rejection, many of you probably saw Martha Stewart tell Matt Lauer on The Today Show that she was now on Match.com. She said she had received thousands of responses. One of these was from a Charles Martin (Heart-On-My-Sleeve) of North Salem, NY. He contacted My Little Publishing Company in the hopes that we would be interested in a book based on his experience as a potential love match for Martha Stewart. This is his story.

1st email

Ideology and friendship

Wed, 2013-05-22 21:49
Journalist: 
First Person Singular
- A.m.

During the 21 months of the Emergency, parallel to what happened on the political front, the ideological distance separating India's economists ceased to be a talking point. I will quote only one instance to illustrate this. In 1975-76, I was a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies in the University of Sussex at Brighton.

M.J. Rose: 11 Lessons Authors Should Learn

Wed, 2013-05-22 21:02
Journalist: 
M.J. Rose

Author Lessons to Learn 1. - Agents suffer along with us -- truly they do, even when they don't show it. It's their job not to show it. So taking some time out when your book comes out to let your agent know you appreciate all his/her hard work is a good idea. It's so easy for us to focus on all that's not going right with our book launch when we look around and see the "it" books getting all the juice.

Randy Susan Meyers: Satisfying (Or Not) Ways to End Your Novel

Wed, 2013-05-22 20:23
Journalist: 
Randy Susan Meyers

Beginning a book is easier than ending it (at least for me.) A beginning is exciting and glittery, filled with excitement and hope. First sentences are sexy. They pop into my mind all the time. If I only had to write the first lines, I could write a million books

But then you have to end it.

Wrap it up.

Like a television finale?

Mayor's pension plan not good enough

Wed, 2013-05-22 19:11

PENSION DEAL

A better way

I do not normally agree with columnist Ron Littlepage; however, I agree with him and Council President Bill Bishop that the mayor's pension reform is "smoke and mirrors."

The reform does not reform the pension for all city government employees.

One is the issue of increasing contributions. While an increase to 12 percent may be a step in the right direction, it does not create parity between the taxpayer and those who work for the taxpayer.

Lead Letter: Mayor's pension plan is more reasonable than earlier one

Wed, 2013-05-22 19:10

The Times-Union complained in an editorial that the recent pension deal between the mayor and public employees was created in secrecy.

While we should all desire a more transparent process, the Times-Union bears much of the blame for the pension process not being more open.

The mayor's initial proposal was extreme and unnecessary, but the Times-Union didn't bother to analyze the impact of the plan, which would have drastically and unnecessarily cut employee compensation.

Founder Stories: Parse's Ilya Sukhar On Founding A Startup With Strangers

Wed, 2013-05-22 19:00
Journalist: 
Michael Abbott

For this week's episode of Founder Stories, I sat down with Ilya Sukhar, co-founder and CEO of Parse. The interview was taped days before Parse was acquired by Facebook last month. Parse is a cloud app platform that provides a set of SDKs that enable developers to focus on the execution of their application instead of rebuilding backend functionality for every mobile platform.

New hire Salim Teja wants to develop MaRS’ innovation ’tissue’

Wed, 2013-05-22 19:00
Journalist: 
Brian Jackson

It's just his second day on the job as head of Toronto's MaRS information technology, communications and entertainment (ICE) sector, and Salim Teja feels like he's a perfect fit.

"The experience and skills I've developed match perfectly the platform MaRS has here in Toronto," he says in a phone interview. "It has that tissue that connects to entrepreneurs and young and emerging companies."

Michael Douglas Dazzles As Liberace

Wed, 2013-05-22 16:03
Journalist: 
The Associated Press

NEW YORK -- The idea of Michael Douglas playing Liberace might seem nearly as outrageous as Liberace himself.

Liberace, forever hailed as "Mr. Showmanship," was the excess-to-the-max pianist-personality whose onstage and offstage extravagance were legendary, and who wowed audiences in Las Vegas and worldwide to become the best-paid entertainer on the planet during his heyday from the 1950s to the 1970s.

Blog: Q&A with an editor of South Sudan's Juba Monitor

Wed, 2013-05-22 15:49
Journalist: 
Tom Rhodes
CPJ East Africa Consultant

Police arbitrarily arrested Michael Koma, the managing editor of South Sudan's daily Juba Monitor, on May 2 and detained him for four days following the publication of an article critical of the deputy security minister. A veteran journalist, Koma has experienced firsthand the poor state of press freedom within Africa's newest country. CPJ spoke with him briefly this week.

Q&A with an editor of South Sudan's Juba Monitor

Wed, 2013-05-22 15:49
(Michael Koma)
Journalist: 
Tom Rhodes
CPJ East Africa Consultant

Police arbitrarily arrested Michael Koma, the managing editor of South Sudan's daily Juba Monitor, on May 2 and detained him for four days following the publication of an article critical of the deputy security minister. A veteran journalist, Koma has experienced firsthand the poor state of press freedom within Africa's newest country. CPJ spoke with him briefly this week.

Stockholm riots challenge image of happy, generous state

Wed, 2013-05-22 15:19
Journalist: 
Johan Sennero
Johan Ahlander

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Hundreds of young people have torched cars and attacked police in three nights of riots in immigrant suburbs of Sweden's capital, shocking a country that has dodged the worst of the financial crisis but failed to defuse youth unemployment and resentment of asylum seekers.

Dylan Ratigan On 'Daily Show': Cable News Is 'Hollow Political Debate' (VIDEO)

Wed, 2013-05-22 14:58
Journalist: 
The Huffington Post News Editors

Dylan Ratigan made a dramatic change when he decided to leave cable news to help build a hydroponic farm in California, and "Daily Show" correspondent Al Madrigal was completely bewildered as to why.

Madrigal visited Ratigan on his farm for an interview that aired Tuesday night, and mocked "just how far" the former MSNBC host has "fallen."

"Wait a second, are those f-cking Crocs?" Madrigal asked, looking at Ratigan's feet.

DSM-5: When Grief And Depression Mingle

Wed, 2013-05-22 14:43
Journalist: 
The Huffington Post News Editors

By: Wynne Parry, LiveScience Contributor Published: 05/22/2013 07:37 AM EDT on LiveScience

Editor's Note: With the release of the latest edition of the mental health manual, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (the DSM), LiveScience takes a close look at some of the disorders it defines. This series asks the fundamental question: What is normal, and what is not?

DSM-5: When Grief And Depression Mingle

Wed, 2013-05-22 14:43
Journalist: 
Amanda L. Chan

By: Wynne Parry, LiveScience Contributor Published: 05/22/2013 07:37 AM EDT on LiveScience

Editor's Note: With the release of the latest edition of the mental health manual, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (the DSM), LiveScience takes a close look at some of the disorders it defines. This series asks the fundamental question: What is normal, and what is not?

WATCH: Dylan Ratigan Really Doesn't Miss Cable News

Wed, 2013-05-22 14:41
Journalist: 
Katherine Fung

Dylan Ratigan made a dramatic change when he decided to leave cable news to help build a hydroponic farm in California, and "Daily Show" correspondent Al Madrigal was completely bewildered as to why.

Madrigal visited Ratigan on his farm for an interview that aired Tuesday night, and mocked "just how far" the former MSNBC host has "fallen."

"Wait a second, are those f-cking Crocs?" Madrigal asked, looking at Ratigan's feet.

Club For Growth Directors Fail Their Own Purity Test

Wed, 2013-05-22 13:28
Journalist: 
Christina Wilkie

WASHINGTON -- Chris Chocola, president of the Club for Growth, recently said his conservative advocacy group's "effectiveness lies in our uncompromising adherence to our mission," which is to promote lower government spending, lower taxes and less regulation. "Our job is not to elect Republicans; that's not what we do," he said.

Elliott Negin: Unreliable Sources 5: How the News Media Help the Kochs & ExxonMobil Spread Climate Disinformation

Wed, 2013-05-22 13:08
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Journalist: 
Elliott Negin

This six-part series, "Unreliable Sources: How the News Media Help the Kochs and ExxonMobil Spread Climate Disinformation," documents that the press routinely cites fossil fuel industry-backed climate contrarian think tanks without reporting their funding sources.

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