The year 2006 was the deadliest for journalists and media workers worldwide, with at least 155 murders and unexplained deaths, the International Federation of Journalists announced Sunday.
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Tony Snow, the president’s press secretary, said in an interview he was certain Mr. Bush read the papers, though he was not sure which ones.
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President Bush is coming under intense criticism over his latest appointment to the board overseeing federal funding of public television and radio — the Corporation for Public Broadcasting of a Republican with no experience.
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The New York Times has published a controversial, White House-censored article critical of US policy towards Iran.
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Federal prosecutors are trying to force the American Civil Liberties Union to turn over copies of a classified document it received from a source, using what legal experts called a new extension of the Bush administration’s efforts to protect homeland security.
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The number of journalists jailed around the world has reached an all-time high.
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Europe is in the process of providing wide-spread access to cell phone television.
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A leaked Fox internal memo from November 8th was found to have said,
“Let’s be on the lookout for any statements from the Iraqi insurgents, who must be thrilled at the prospect of a Dem-controlled congress.”
The State Department has indicated it is not going to press the Mexican government over the murder of American journalist Brad Will. He was shot dead on Friday by Mexican gunmen tied to the government.
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A federal judge decided exit polling was legal.
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The Pentagon’s Inspector General decided that the US military didn’t break any laws when it planted pro-American stories in the Iraqi press. Last year it was revealed that the Pentagon paid a start-up company called the Lincoln Group millions of dollars to plant stories and pay for favorable coverage in the Iraqi press.
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The conservative commentator Armstrong Williams has reached a settlement with prosecutors regarding payments he received from the Education Department to promote President Bush’s agenda. Under the settlement, Mr. Williams admits no wrongdoing but will have to pay $34,000 that prosecutors determined he had been overpaid.
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A U.S-based media watchdog on Wednesday demanded that Iraqi authorities release a female journalist for a London-based Arabic newspaper who has been held without charge for three weeks.
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Journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who criticized Russia’s Chechnya policy, was found shot to death in an elevator.
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Two prominent journalists took part in a secret meeting with the Bush administration in 2001 to help shape the country’s response to the Sept. 11 attacks.
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The Miami Herald has reversed its decision to fire three journalists caught taking payments from the US government.
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Under a broad new set of laws criminalizing speech that ridicules the government or its officials, some resurrected verbatim from Saddam Hussein’s penal code, roughly a dozen Iraqi journalists have been charged with offending public officials in the past year.
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The average American home now has more television sets than people.
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The Sudanese government agreed to release a well-known American journalist, Paul Salopek, and two Chadians who were arrested and charged with espionage and with illegally crossing the border from Chad last month.
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Former President Bill Clinton wanted ABC to tell the truth. “I just want people to tell the truth,” he said.
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