The Price For Reporting, & The Color Red
March 8th 2007 17:57
The Washington Post is reporting “Josh Wolf, a 24-year-old blogger, has spent more than six months behind bars in California -- the longest contempt-of-court term ever served by someone in the media -- for refusing to turn over a videotape he shot of a violent San Francisco demonstration against a Group of Eight summit meeting. Unless a mediation session today can break the impasse, he will likely remain imprisoned at least until the current grand jury's term expires in July.”
“In an interview with PBS's "Frontline," Wolf says: "There was a trust established between people involved in the organization that I was covering and myself . . . that what I chose to release was what I chose to release, and that I wasn't an investigator for the state."”
“"I would define a journalist as someone who brings news to the public," says Garbus, a noted First Amendment lawyer handling the case on a pro bono basis. "It's a definition that might cause journalists some discomfort because it opens up the gates."
But U.S. Attorney Kevin Ryan says in a court filing that Wolf's resistance "is apparently fueled by his anointment as a journalistic martyr" and that he needs "to come to grips with the fact that he was simply a person with a video camera who happened to record some public events."” (above content, Washington Post)
This story appears the day after news safety reports the deaths/murders of journalists around the world.
We are just bloggers, right?
....And Media Bistro reports:"
We knew we couldn't diss Bono without getting busted. Catching wind of our post yesterday about (RED)'s supposed failure, (RED) itself writes to tell us that's not the whole story:
The article is based on many inaccuracies. The (RED) initiative has raised more than $25M for the Global Fund to date. And, more importantly, (RED) has not spent a dime on advertising. The money spent on advertising has been through (RED) convincing companies to divert already planned marketing dollars to promote products that send up to 50% of their profits to the Global Fund. This advertising money was not part of the company philanthropic arm or part of the (RED) initiative and, if not put behind these products, would've been used to promote other products that don't contribute anything.
Read on for the letter that (RED) CEO Bobby Shriver sent to the editor of Ad Week (they wrote the article that called $18 million meager)."
... all in a global, borderless world.....
“In an interview with PBS's "Frontline," Wolf says: "There was a trust established between people involved in the organization that I was covering and myself . . . that what I chose to release was what I chose to release, and that I wasn't an investigator for the state."”
“"I would define a journalist as someone who brings news to the public," says Garbus, a noted First Amendment lawyer handling the case on a pro bono basis. "It's a definition that might cause journalists some discomfort because it opens up the gates."
But U.S. Attorney Kevin Ryan says in a court filing that Wolf's resistance "is apparently fueled by his anointment as a journalistic martyr" and that he needs "to come to grips with the fact that he was simply a person with a video camera who happened to record some public events."” (above content, Washington Post)
This story appears the day after news safety reports the deaths/murders of journalists around the world.
We are just bloggers, right?
....And Media Bistro reports:"
The article is based on many inaccuracies. The (RED) initiative has raised more than $25M for the Global Fund to date. And, more importantly, (RED) has not spent a dime on advertising. The money spent on advertising has been through (RED) convincing companies to divert already planned marketing dollars to promote products that send up to 50% of their profits to the Global Fund. This advertising money was not part of the company philanthropic arm or part of the (RED) initiative and, if not put behind these products, would've been used to promote other products that don't contribute anything.
Read on for the letter that (RED) CEO Bobby Shriver sent to the editor of Ad Week (they wrote the article that called $18 million meager)."
... all in a global, borderless world.....
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