Dan Kennedy, the Boston Phoenix's media critic, originally opposed publication of the video and photo of Daniel Pearl's grisly slaughter. Now that his paper has carried through with its vow to publish the images, Kennedy has changed his mind. "It's important to see the Daniel Pearl video because it's important to look into the face of the pure evil we're up against," Kennedy writes. "It's important to see it because merely reading a description of it cannot do justice to its full horror."
What do local Ohio politicians have to do with the Israel-Palestine conflict? Despite their irrelevance, Ohio officials chime in on this sensitive international issue, siding firmly with Israel. Columbus Alive's J. Caleb Mozzocco reports on the controversy that has Columbus' Muslim and Arab community seething.
"Newspapers want the benefit of being read worldwide but not the responsibility that comes with it," an attorney told a federal appeals court June 3 in Stanley Young vs. The New Haven Advocate. The libel lawsuit by a Virginia prison warden is an appeal of a federal district court ruling in Virginia that granted jurisdiction because the Connecticut newspapers that he was suing published their material on the Web. AAN joined amicus briefs in support of the publishers in both Young and Gutnick vs. Barron's, a similar case before Australia's highest court. The case may be the first federal appellate ruling on whether a newspaper can be sued anywhere its Web site is read.
The not-so-holy behavior of Catholic priests and its cover-up by the church is nothing new. At least that's what Cincinnati CityBeat's Gregory Flannery says as he chronicles his own experiences as a youth in seminary school. Flannery vividly and explicitly describes the sexual abuse that plagues the Catholic church. "I have seen crimes against children, vice behind the walls of a powerful institution and the betrayal of ancient ideals," Flannery writes. "But telling secrets always feels dirty, and the feeling doesn't diminish simply because some secrets deserve to be told."
Bob Norman, a staff writer for New Times Broward-Palm Beach, recently took home the 2001 Livingston Award for national reporting for his investigative series "Admitting Terror." The series revealed how incompetence and a skewed set of priorities at the federal Immigration and Naturalization Service helped set the stage for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Norman's recognition is the latest notch in New Times Media's belt in what they are calling a "banner year."
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