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Does Alan Johnston know today is the UN’s annual World Press Freedom Day? Do journalists

While the MSM spills ink and breaks quills assessing the unfolding fallout from the Winograd

An academic report concludes Hezbollah succeeded at using the media as a weapon against Israel.

The case of a Canadian-Chinese national, Huseyin Celil (pictured) is giving new meaning to the

* Joel Mowbray slams the taxpayer funded al-Hurra TV news for continuing to give unbalanced

Yesterday, the Winograd Commission released a partial report on its findings, which is online in

Ian Buruma writes in the LA Times: Just as Jews, during some traditional Passover feasts,

Iran advertised tenders for nuclear reactors in the International Herald-Tribune. Illuminea sums up that this

We recently blogged Azmi Bishara’s fast-fizzling hopes of becoming a media darling at Israel’s expense.

This week, Mahmoud Abbas flew to Geneva to open an archeological exhibit, “Gaza at the

Pondering Alan Johnston’s captors, Palestinian writer Ramzy Baroud (pictured) broods over the million dollar question:

History’s repeating itself in Gaza as gunmen entrench themselves in residential areas of Beit Hanoun.

The NY Sun sums up the latest Pulitzer outrage: A feature by a New York

The BBC won a High Court ruling keeping the Balen report under wraps. In 2004,

The EU passed an emergency resolution calling for Alan Johnston’s freedom. An admirable gesture, even

Newsweek features a puff piece on the Muslim Brotherhood. Reporter Stephen Glain astonishingly overlooks the

Having run afoul of the law, former Arab Knesset member Azmi Bishara (pictured) is trying

One of Hezbollah’s original founders tells Time magazine the terror group sold out to Iran