Number 247, October 2002
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Since 1996 the Association of Guatemalan Community Communicators (ACCG), has been publicly debating the issue of community radios in a society where 70% of the population is indigenous Mayan.
The following article is from “Ali Abunimah's bitter pill: uncovering media myths about the middle east” reacting to attempts by the U.S. State Department to influence news and its distribution in the Middle East.
Ali Abunimah
There can be no more shocking and disgusting demonstration of US double standards than the demand delivered by US Secretary of State Colin Powell that Qatar crack down on the independent satellite TV network Al-Jazira.
Anna Turley, editor of Media and Gender Monitor.
After 11th September 2001, the diversity of transnational television news channels consumed across the world became newsworthy in itself.
Paul Jeffrey
Jesus is big on interruptions. Beginning with that surreal scene in the stable, he’s a big interruption himself in the wretched history of the world. Into the gaunt timeline of wars and empires comes a child born in a barn to an unwed mother, an illegitimate birth in a history that’s legitimate because it’s sanctioned by prelate and king and anchor. This birth to poor parents, consecrated not by mini-cam but by weary beasts of burden and angels, is not news. The Bethlehem Daily News never showed up that night.
This statement and call for people to “act for peace” is written by the Ecumenical Advocacy Committee on behalf of the Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance (EAA).