News Website Assignment: “Ban on gay blood results in college outcry”
April 9, 2008 at 1:21 pm | In Online Journalism, Politics | Leave a CommentTags: CNN, IBTS, UCC, UCD, University Observer
Story Highlights
- IBTS refuses blood from homosexuals
- Universities slam move
- IBTS defends decision, calling homosexuals “risk groups”
Ban on gay blood results in college outcry Continue reading News Website Assignment: “Ban on gay blood results in college outcry”…
In the Field with Bertie
April 2, 2008 at 4:13 pm | In Online Journalism, Politics | Leave a CommentTags: Bertie Ahern, Blog, CNN
**BAM!** That’s the bombshell that went off for Ireland to-day when Bertie Ahern announced his resignation. I don’t think it’s the fact that it happend that was so surprsing, just that it happend so fast. Good ‘ol CNN is on the ball with coverage & analysis of the story & has a nice blog to go with it. Continue reading In the Field with Bertie…
From Russia with love…
March 22, 2008 at 4:45 pm | In Politics | Leave a CommentTags: Freedom of speech, Killing, Russia
Well, Russia has done it again…killed journalists that is. According to the International Herald Tribune article (http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/03/22/news/Russia-Journalists-Killed.php) ” [Ilyas] Shurpayev, 32, worked for the national channel that served as a Kremlin mouthpiece and has not contradicted the official viewpoint in his reports, the minister said”. But why is that relevant? Continue reading From Russia with love……
Blog for Tibet
March 15, 2008 at 2:47 pm | In Online Journalism, Politics | Leave a CommentTags: Blogs, China, CNN, Protests, Sky News, Tibet
Well I hope all the news junkies out there have heard about the Tibet protests against China over the last few days? CNN (http://edition.cnn.com) have been saying since yesterday that the Chinise government has been blocking out their signal & denying them access to Tibet. What makes this interesting is Continue reading Blog for Tibet…
Freedom of anything in Pakistan?
February 23, 2008 at 5:09 am | In Politics | 1 CommentTags: Aaj TV, CNN, Dublin, Freedom of speech, Pakistan
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Earlier tonight, one of Pakistan’s TV channels was taken off the air “after it allowed two broadcasters who had been banned by the government to appear on air”, according to CNN (http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/02/22/pakistan.tv/index.html). The station was suspended from broadcasting because one journalist made “critical comments…about the president”. Apart from the fact that this impinges on freedom of speech, it is an attack on journalists who speak their mind in a country which is (recently) under such governmental scrutany as Pakistan. However, although the channel itself has been forced to stop transmitting, the website (http://www.aaj.tv/) seems to be running as normal. I have contacted the Pakistani embassy in Dublin tonight seeking clarificaion….but I wouldn’t hold my breath.
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- Police clash with youths on Greek riots anniversary December 6, 2009ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek police fired teargas to disperse rioting protesters as thousands marched in Athens on Sunday to mark the police killing of a teenager, which unleashed the country's worst riots in decades last year.
- Israeli settlers step up protest against freeze December 6, 2009JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Jewish settlers widened their protests on Sunday against a construction freeze in scattered violence across the West Bank but there was little sign the protests were influencing the Israeli government.
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- Afghan women among worst off in world-rights group December 7, 2009
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