Press Freedom
MEDIA-ASIA: Independent Media Struggle Against CommercialisationPosted: 2008-07-11 |
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By Milind Kokje* Mention 'independent media' and we immediately think of monarchs, political dictators, uniformed heads of state, military junta and similar entities as the main obstacles for media independence. There may be some honourable exceptions, but in general, our past experiences tell us how these types of political systems are anathema to independence in general, and independent media in particular. |
MIDEAST: When You Shoot the MessengerPosted: 2008-07-04 |
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By Mel Frykberg GAZA CITY, Jul 3 (IPS) - The assault of IPS Gaza correspondent Mohammed Omer has left Israeli security personnel with a lot of explaining to do. And they are not doing a very good job of it. |
Right to Communication Non-Existent in Turkey?Posted: 2008-06-25 |
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By Ilnur Cevik [*The New Anatolian] The Turkish constitution specifies in very clear terms that citizens will enjoy freedom of travel and communications. However, in practice this article of the constitution has been violated systematically in Turkey both by state institutions and even by private persons. |
MEDIA-SINGAPORE: Restrictions Following Critics to CyberspacePosted: 2008-06-06 |
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By Lin Quan Zhong SINGAPORE, Jun 6 (Asia Media Forum) – When Lee Hsien Loong became Singapore’s prime minister after his father, Lee Kwan Yew, four years ago, he encouraged citizens to “feel free to express diverse views, pursue unconventional ideas or simply be different”. Today, these hopes for a city-state that can be more relaxed about criticism and more open to frank debate appear to have been too high. |
MEDIA: Another Journalist 'Silenced' in PakistanPosted: 2008-05-30 |
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By Shaheen Buneri PESHAWAR, May 23 — In a fresh row of violence unidentified assailants Thursday killed Muhammad Ibrahim Khan, a senior TV journalist while he was returning to his home town after interviewing Moulvi Omar, spokesman of Pakistan Taliban Movement in Pakistan Bajaur Tribal Agency. |
SOUTH ASIA: Differing on Right to InformationPosted: 2008-05-14 |
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By Kalinga Seneviratne DHAKA, May 14 (IPS) - The right to information (RTI), as espoused by the United Nations and international human rights organisations, does not have full endorsement from South Asian media practitioners and scholars. |
BURMA: Foreigners, Cameras Banned in Cyclone-Hit AreasPosted: 2008-05-14 |
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By Marwaan Macan-Markar BANGKOK, May 13 (IPS) - Images of the dead keep trickling out of Burma. The most moving are those of children who died when Cyclone Nargis tore through their world in the populous Irrawaddy delta. |
BURMA: Meet Asia’s 'Model Public Broadcaster'Posted: 2008-05-12 |
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By Nalaka Gunawardene As the United Nations and aid agencies struggle with the incredibly uncaring Burmese bureaucracy to get much needed emergency relief for the affected Burmese people, the media outside Burma are having great difficulty accessing authentic information and images. |
FIJI: Aussie Journo Expelled on Press Freedom Day EvePosted: 2008-05-06 |
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By Shailendra Singh SUVA, May 5 (IPS) - Fiji’s interim government has come under withering criticism both nationally and internationally for the deportation on Friday of the Australian publisher of the leading ‘Fiji Times’ daily, Evan Hannah. |
MEDIA-ASIA: More Than Just FreedomPosted: 2008-05-06 |
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By Lynette Lee Corporal BANGKOK, May 2 (IPS) - More than gaining the freedom to report on society’s problems Asian media must gauge it’s real contribution to the public‘s needs, especially at a time of increasing commercialisation. |
