Posted on November 30th, 2007 by Marian Houk
The World Health Organization has just announced sanctions — very light ones — against the NYTimes for breaching a news embargo. It is surprising, because hardly anybody who wants news coverage would dare do anything against the NYTimes. In fact, it is far more normal for UN spokespersons to deliberately leak advance copies of important [...]
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Filed under: Journalism and Journalists, United Nations Agencies and Programmes
Posted on November 30th, 2007 by Marian Houk
This teacher could have received 40 lashes, but was sentenced instead to 15 days in jail — while demonstrators are calling for her execution. Her crime? Officially, that she allowed her students to name a class teddy bear “Muhammad”. Scholars can debate whether this is in any way an offense against Islam (though I am [...]
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Filed under: Sudan
Posted on November 30th, 2007 by Marian Houk
Are they serious? The U.S. proposed a draft UN Security Council resolution aimed at enshrining and endorsing the Annapolis Joint Understanding signed by Israeli and Palestinian negotiators — and then they withdrew it, because Israel objected! Israel reportedly does not want the UN Security Council involved… Israeli officials have also complained that they were not [...]
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Filed under: Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, US in UN
Posted on November 30th, 2007 by Marian Houk
When the U.S. does something, it tries to go all the way. Now, we learn, the U.S. is asking the UN Security council to endorse the Annapolis “Joint Understanding” — agreed between Israeli and apparently more recalcitrant Palestinian negotiators just eight minutes before the opening of the conference this week. The U.S. is probably the [...]
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Filed under: Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, Quartet, UN Security Council, US in UN
Posted on November 30th, 2007 by Marian Houk
“…one of my mentors pointed out an interesting fact to me. He told me that in life there are different types of journalists – those who are very good at getting the story but terrible at putting it together and those who are the opposite. ‘If you get a journalist who can get the story [...]
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Filed under: Journalism and Journalists
