Annie 9/11 Truth Organiser
Joined: 25 Feb 2006 Posts: 830 Location: London
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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 9:39 am Post subject: Sat26Jan - LONDON - New Threats to Media Freedom |
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New Threats to Media Freedom – How We Fight Back
Mounting political and commercial pressures are affecting the freedom to report as never before. Hear leading journalists, broadcasters and union campaigners on why an unfettered media is central to democracy, and how we can mobilise to defend freedom of information and expression:
Saturday Jan 26, 2008, 9.30am – 4.30pm
National Union of Journalists
308 Gray’s Inn Road, London WC1X
Speakers include:
Alan Johnston, former BBC correspondent in Gaza, recently held hostage, on covering conflict
Martin Bright, New Statesman political editor, on the anti-terror laws
Peter Wilby, former editor, Independent on Sunday, on the Murdoch empire
Granville Williams, media commentator & CPBF, on media ownership
Victoria Brittain, freelance journalist and author, on the narrowing news spectrum
Jo Glanville, editor, Index on Censorship, on secrecy and censorship
Heather Brooke, freelance journalist and author, on the Freedom of Information Act
Joy Francis, managing director, the Creative Collective on reporting diversity
David Crouch, Media Workers Against the War, on bias in war reporting
Jeremy Dear, NUJ general secretary, on defending quality journalism
Chris Frost, NUJ ethics council, on fair reporting
Tony Lennon, BECTU president, on the crisis at the BBC and wider implications
Paul Mason, Newsnight correspondent, on how BBC journalists are organising
Aidan White, general secretary, International Federation of Journalists, on the fight for media freedom world-wide
Conference programme: www.cpbf.org.uk/files/programme.pdf
Download registration form here: www.cpbf.org.uk/body.phtml?doctype=events&id=1950
Called by the NUJ with the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom
_________________ All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing - Edmund Burke.
Ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem Americanam appellant - Tacitus Redactus. |
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Jack Moderate Poster
Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 115
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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 11:58 pm Post subject: Re: Sat26Jan - LONDON - New Threats to Media Freedom |
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Annie wrote: |
Jo Glanville, editor, Index on Censorship, on secrecy and censorship
Heather Brooke, freelance journalist and author, on the Freedom of Information Act
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ah! She gave a speech at my uni a couple of weeks ago called "Red Lines. Free Speech after 9/11". I showed her an article about the House hearings in the US which equated ae911truth.org with jihadist sites and told her about the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention bill (which she hadn't heard of)
I gave her a Press for Truth and 9/11 Mysteries to be getting on with.
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andyb Validated Poster
Joined: 26 Apr 2006 Posts: 1025 Location: SW London
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Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 9:51 am Post subject: |
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Good wirk Jack, although I'd recommend Improbable Collapse rather then 9/11 Mysteries as it is easily debunked and there is a lot of misinformation.
_________________ "We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.” Martin Luther King |
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