Comments on: American Occupiers Must Act to Protect Iraqi Press Freedom: Kitabat of Iraq http://themoderatevoice.com/54770/american-occupiers-must-act-to-protect-iraqi-press-freedom-kitabat-of-iraq/ An Internet hub with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, indies, centrists, moderates, and right Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:41:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: spirasol http://themoderatevoice.com/54770/american-occupiers-must-act-to-protect-iraqi-press-freedom-kitabat-of-iraq/comment-page-1/#comment-234495 spirasol Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:01:34 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=54770#comment-234495 Does a free press exist anymore? I recall all the journalists who became targets of both Iraqi insurgents and the American military. I think it is a risk that has grown in the last years. Say something against the government some action will be taken, usually a barring of access, but sometimes as this story makes clear, the consequences can be brutal. <br><br>There is another story about another journalist traveling abroad in another country, one thought of being friendly to American journos......Democracies don't do this, right? <br><br>"While traveling to Vancouver, Canada to speak at the Vancouver Public Library at a benefit for community radio stations, Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman and her two colleagues were detained by Canadian authorities. Amy was questioned extensively about the speech she intended to give; their car was gone through by armed border guards, and their papers and laptop computers were scoured. The armed interrogators were particularly interested in whether she would be speaking about the upcoming Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics." Does a free press exist anymore? I recall all the journalists who became targets of both Iraqi insurgents and the American military. I think it is a risk that has grown in the last years. Say something against the government some action will be taken, usually a barring of access, but sometimes as this story makes clear, the consequences can be brutal.

There is another story about another journalist traveling abroad in another country, one thought of being friendly to American journos……Democracies don't do this, right?

“While traveling to Vancouver, Canada to speak at the Vancouver Public Library at a benefit for community radio stations, Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman and her two colleagues were detained by Canadian authorities. Amy was questioned extensively about the speech she intended to give; their car was gone through by armed border guards, and their papers and laptop computers were scoured. The armed interrogators were particularly interested in whether she would be speaking about the upcoming Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics.”

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