Time is running out for the Egyptian writer and activist Alaa Abd El Fattah. He has already served nearly a decade in Egyptian prisons for the “high” crimes of organising political protests and retweeting a tweet about a prisoner who committed suicid…
It is time for the Biden Administration to use the full regulatory powers of an emboldened, repurposed Federal Communications Commission to stop these hate mongering broadcasters from peddling their lies. (See the New York Times story linked t…
I want to add my voice to those paying tribute to Chris Cramer. He died on January 16th after a long illness. Chris was 73.His long-time BBC colleague, Richard Sambrook, wrote a splendid, heart-felt obituary for the BBC website, Richard considered Ch…
Twenty three years after Princess Diana lost her life in a car crash in the Pont D’Alma tunnel along with her boyfriend Dodi Al Fayed, she is still a dominating news presence. Season 4 of Netflix’s The Crown features her doomed relationship with Prin…
Who’d have thought that my new home city Bend, Oregon ( now over 100,000) would make national news spotlighting protestors and ordinary citizens trying to stop ICE from snatching 2 Hispanic men and hiding out in a bus in the middle of a tourist area?…
I have heard from several old friends who’ve inquired whether I’m alright because I had not posted on Facebook in a long time. I realised that I’d made only a brief Facebook comment about adding my voice to those protesting against Mark Zuckerberg’s s…
It was Santiago Lyon's Facebook posting on Sunday that reminded us that 20 years ago two of the best and most respected international journalists, Miguel Gil of AP and Kurt Schork of Reuters, were both killed on the same day in the same place, caught i…
I think that the Times new media critic Ben Smith - formerly chief editor of Buzzfeed, - is injecting a much needed edge to coverage of journalism and media. He rightly focuses on the pro-Biden, /anti- Sanders coverage that has dominated the …
Even I didn’t think that a triumphal Boris Johnson would risk blowing his considerable capital ( he won an 80-seat majority against the hapless Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn) by targeting the BBC. Yet Johnson appears to be doing exactly that. The Murdoch…
Living out here in deepest Oregon, I’m rediscovering just how important a source of international news is is the Al Jazeera English news channel. AJE has done first rate reporting and analysis on President Trump’s ordered killing of Iran’s Soleimani. W…