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Where's The Outrage?(ISSUES & INSIGHTS)(EDITORIALS)(Editorial)
News Relativism: The attention given to any event that shows the U.S. in a bad light, and the inattention paid to news that makes U.S. mistakes pale by comparison, never ceases to amaze.
Case in point: word last Thursday that a Canadian photojournalist was beaten, tortured and raped before dying two years ago while in custody in Iran.
This got all of 2 1/2 inches inside both The New York Times and Los Angeles Times, and we doubt another word will be heard.
But then, this wasn't a case of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib being forced by U.S. soldiers to wear dog collars or women's underwear. We'll probably never hear the end of that.
Nor was it a case of a woman journalist -- like Giuliana Sgrena of the communist newspaper Il Manifesto -- being fired on as her limousine ran an American checkpoint in Baghdad. That prompted an Italian outpouring eclipsed only by the death of the pope.
Still, the Canadian death in Iran involved both a prisoner and a female journalist, and you tell us which was most "horrific."
The journalist was Zahra Kazemi, 54, a freelancer of Iranian origin who had the guts -- or just the professionalism -- to take photos outside a Tehran prison during student-led protest against the ...
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- Magazine article from: Advertising Age Lyman, Eric J. December 30, 2002 700+ words
...Byline: Eric J. Lyman [rome] Left-wing Italian daily Il Manifesto is promoting the paper with an ad that criticizes U.S...newspaper, outdoor and radio ad, intended to show that Il Manifesto takes controversial stands, asks readers to subscribe.
- Italian Il Manifesto journalist says no ransom paid for Sgrena's release.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire March 5, 2005 700+ words
(From BBC Monitoring International Reports) Text of telephone interview with Loris Campetti, Italian Il Manifesto journalist, in Rome, by presenter Khadijah Bin-Qinnah, in Doha; broadcast live by Qatari Al-Jazeera satellite TV on 4 March...
- Giuliana Sgrena, a journalist with the Italian Communist daily Il Manifesto,...
- Magazine article from: National Review March 28, 2005 700+ words
* Giuliana Sgrena, a journalist with the Italian Communist daily Il Manifesto, was kidnapped in February in Iraq. Evidently the Italian government made a secret payment to spring her, and did not tip the...
- Iranian Majlis urges government to review diplomatic ties with Canada.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire May 22, 2005 700+ words
...arrested. The new charges has been made by Shahram Azam, a shady figure who has been described...Hospital staff have also lined up to deny Shahram Azam ever worked in their unit. Nobel Peace...refugee status in Canada'. He described Shahram Azam as 'a person who managed to hoodwink...
- Iran judiciary says doctor's testimony in photojournalist case "false".
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire June 27, 2005 700+ words
...Zahra Kazemi due to false testimony of the so-called doctor Shahram Azam. In an address to a group of judiciary officials here on...been working at Tehran's Baqiatallah hospital. "Since Shahram Azam raised claims on death of Mrs Zahra Kazemi, the judiciary...
- Doctor: Journalist tortured prior to dying.(UPI Top Stories)
- News wire article from: UPI NewsTrack March 31, 2005 700+ words
...Sweden, says Canadian journalist Zahra Kazemi was savagely beaten and raped before she died in Iranian custody in 2003. Shahram Azam, an emergency-room doctor who examined Kazemi before she died, said the woman was also tortured, the Globe and Mail...
- Freed Journalist Devoted to World's Weak.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire March 5, 2005 700+ words
...old journalist for the communist daily Il Manifesto, was freed Friday after being held...was reportedly in serious condition. Il Manifesto has been a fierce opponent of the U...ouster of Saddam Hussein. Before joining Il Manifesto in 1988, Sgrena _ born in the town...
- Freed Italian journalist devoted her career to defending the world's weak.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire March 5, 2005 700+ words
...old journalist for the communist daily Il Manifesto, was freed Friday after being held...was reportedly in serious condition. Il Manifesto has been a fierce opponent of the U...ouster of Saddam Hussein. Before joining Il Manifesto in 1988, Sgrena _ born in the town...
- Second call from abducted journalist's phone as Italy works to secure her...
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire February 5, 2005 700+ words
...reporter for the communist newspaper Il Manifesto, was abducted Friday by gunmen who...published by Italian newspaper La Stampa. Il Manifesto strongly opposed the U.S.-led war...Hill to show solidarity with Sgrena. Il Manifesto made a giant poster of the journalist...
- Italian journalist released by her captors in Iraq.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire March 4, 2005 700+ words
...Sgrena, a reporter for the communist Il Manifesto newspaper, might be back in Rome later...Franco Sgrena was quoted as saying. At Il Manifesto's offices, reporters toasted the...already we're sending her hugs," Il Manifesto editor Tommaso Di Francesco told Tg3...