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'Mouse Journalism' , Only Way We Can report on Iraq
By Matthew Lewin
10-20-5
"You cannot imagine just how bad things are in Iraq. ... Nothing of the reporting I see generally, except The Guardian and Patrick Cockburn in The Independent, really conveys the absolute agony and distress of Iraq."
The Independent's famously intrepid Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk has revealed that the situation in Iraq is now so dangerous that he doesn't know whether he can go on reporting from the country.
Fisk, who has previously accused colleagues of practising "hotel journalism" in Iraq, said that "mouse journalism" is now the best he can do in the country.
Fisk, whose new history of the Middle East, The Great War for Civilisation, has just been published, described mouse journalism as the practice of popping up at the scene of an event and staying just long enough to get the story, before the men with guns arrive.
Speaking at a bookshop in Golders Green, he said: "You cannot imagine just how bad things are in Iraq.
"A few weeks ago, I went to see a man whose son was killed by the Americans, and I was in his house for five minutes before armed men turned up in the street outside.
"He had to go and reason with them not to take me away. And this was an ordinary Baghdad suburb, not the Sunni Triangle or Fallujah.
"It has got to the stage where, for example, when I went to have a look at the scene of a huge bomb in a bus station, I jumped out of the car and took two pictures before I was surrounded by a crowd of enraged Iraqis.
"I jumped back in the car and fled. I call that mouse journalism' " and that's all we can do now.
"If I go to see someone in any particular location, I give myself 12 minutes, because that is how long I reckon it takes a man with a mobile phone to summon gunmen to the scene in a car.
"So, after 10 minutes I am out. Don't be greedy. That's what reporting is like in Iraq."
He continued: "This country is nowhell " a disaster. You cannot imagine how bad it is. Nothing of the reporting I see generally, except The Guardian and Patrick Cockburn in The Independent, really conveys the absolute agony and distress of Iraq.
"The Ministry of Health, which is partly run by Americans, will not give out any figures for civilian casualties; staff are just not allowed to give us these figures.
"When I went to the city morgue in Baghdad one day nearly four weeks ago, I arrived at 9am and there were nineviolent death corpses there.
"By midday there were 26 corpses. When I managed to get access to the computer system of the mortuary, I discovered that in July 1,100 Iraqis had been killed in Baghdad alone.
"Multiply that across Iraq and you are talking about 3,000 a month or more, which means 36,000 a year.
"So these figures claiming 100,000 Iraqi civilian casualties are not necessarily conservative at all. But no-one wants to report on this.
"One of the delights of the occupying powers is that the journalists cannot move. When I travel outside Baghdad by road it takes me two weeks to plan it, because the roads are infested with insurgents, checkpoints, hooded men and throat-cutters. That's what it's like.
"It is almost impossible to get access to free information outside Baghdad or Basra. Most of the reporters who can travel are doing so as members of military convoys with armour to protect them.
"The last time I travelled to Najaf, the road was littered with burned-out American vehicles, smashed police vehicles, abandoned checkpoints and armed men. That's Iraq today " it's in a state of anarchy, and many areas of Baghdad are in fact now in insurgent hands."
He added: "This is a war the like of which I have never reported before.
Over and over again, we are escaping with our lives because we are lucky.
And it is getting much worse, not better " don't believe what Blair is telling you.
"It is very sad to have to say that I don't know if we can go on reporting in Iraq. I don't know if I can personally keep on going back.
"This last trip there was so dangerous and frightening, I actually said to some people that we were going to have to debate whether the risks are worth it all.
All contents copyright © 2005 Press Gazette Ltd.
http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/article/131005/mouse_journalism_is
gott dis from Pithaly
10-20-5
"You cannot imagine just how bad things are in Iraq. ... Nothing of the reporting I see generally, except The Guardian and Patrick Cockburn in The Independent, really conveys the absolute agony and distress of Iraq."
The Independent's famously intrepid Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk has revealed that the situation in Iraq is now so dangerous that he doesn't know whether he can go on reporting from the country.
Fisk, who has previously accused colleagues of practising "hotel journalism" in Iraq, said that "mouse journalism" is now the best he can do in the country.
Fisk, whose new history of the Middle East, The Great War for Civilisation, has just been published, described mouse journalism as the practice of popping up at the scene of an event and staying just long enough to get the story, before the men with guns arrive.
Speaking at a bookshop in Golders Green, he said: "You cannot imagine just how bad things are in Iraq.
"A few weeks ago, I went to see a man whose son was killed by the Americans, and I was in his house for five minutes before armed men turned up in the street outside.
"He had to go and reason with them not to take me away. And this was an ordinary Baghdad suburb, not the Sunni Triangle or Fallujah.
"It has got to the stage where, for example, when I went to have a look at the scene of a huge bomb in a bus station, I jumped out of the car and took two pictures before I was surrounded by a crowd of enraged Iraqis.
"I jumped back in the car and fled. I call that mouse journalism' " and that's all we can do now.
"If I go to see someone in any particular location, I give myself 12 minutes, because that is how long I reckon it takes a man with a mobile phone to summon gunmen to the scene in a car.
"So, after 10 minutes I am out. Don't be greedy. That's what reporting is like in Iraq."
He continued: "This country is nowhell " a disaster. You cannot imagine how bad it is. Nothing of the reporting I see generally, except The Guardian and Patrick Cockburn in The Independent, really conveys the absolute agony and distress of Iraq.
"The Ministry of Health, which is partly run by Americans, will not give out any figures for civilian casualties; staff are just not allowed to give us these figures.
"When I went to the city morgue in Baghdad one day nearly four weeks ago, I arrived at 9am and there were nineviolent death corpses there.
"By midday there were 26 corpses. When I managed to get access to the computer system of the mortuary, I discovered that in July 1,100 Iraqis had been killed in Baghdad alone.
"Multiply that across Iraq and you are talking about 3,000 a month or more, which means 36,000 a year.
"So these figures claiming 100,000 Iraqi civilian casualties are not necessarily conservative at all. But no-one wants to report on this.
"One of the delights of the occupying powers is that the journalists cannot move. When I travel outside Baghdad by road it takes me two weeks to plan it, because the roads are infested with insurgents, checkpoints, hooded men and throat-cutters. That's what it's like.
"It is almost impossible to get access to free information outside Baghdad or Basra. Most of the reporters who can travel are doing so as members of military convoys with armour to protect them.
"The last time I travelled to Najaf, the road was littered with burned-out American vehicles, smashed police vehicles, abandoned checkpoints and armed men. That's Iraq today " it's in a state of anarchy, and many areas of Baghdad are in fact now in insurgent hands."
He added: "This is a war the like of which I have never reported before.
Over and over again, we are escaping with our lives because we are lucky.
And it is getting much worse, not better " don't believe what Blair is telling you.
"It is very sad to have to say that I don't know if we can go on reporting in Iraq. I don't know if I can personally keep on going back.
"This last trip there was so dangerous and frightening, I actually said to some people that we were going to have to debate whether the risks are worth it all.
All contents copyright © 2005 Press Gazette Ltd.
http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/article/131005/mouse_journalism_is
gott dis from Pithaly
Tuesday, October 18, 2005
DAMN Sardars, and silly Punjabis
You should be sure the person is Sardar when he:
• puts lipstick on the forehead because he wants to make up his mind.
• gets stabbed in a shoot-out.
• sends a fax with a postage stamp on it.
• tries to drown a fish in water.
• thinks socialism means partying.
• trips over a cordless phone.
• takes a ruler to bed to see how long he slept.
• At the bottom of the application where it says "Sign Here" he puts
"Sagittarius.".
• studies for a blood test and fails.
• sells the car for gas money.
• misses the 44 bus, and takes the 22 twice instead.
• drives to the airport and sees a sign that said, "Airport left", he turns around and
goes home.
• gets locked in Furniture Shop and sleeps on the floor.
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What do you do when a Sardar throws a pin at you?
Run like Hell....he's got a hand grenade in his mouth.
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Sunday, October 16, 2005
Subject: FW: For All Goans
Hi, All Goans, Please acept my deepest sympathies, Just heard over the B.B.C that all goans are banned from the U.S.A, Very sad, but who can do anything about it, The goans asked for it with their very own passion for music, It so happened that the goans were having a party and as usual they always have to end up with the masala, and so you can very well guess what they sang, well if you dont know , it was..........
YE YE KATRINA, OH OH KATRINA, YE YE KATRINA, And their prayers were answered, Katrina hit and took off New Orleans, Obviously the Americans were angered and s ent all the goans back,
But some of them who had long acquired citizenship stayed back, But they made very sure not to sing in konkani, and stuck with the english songs, so when they were partying a week or so after Katrina hit, after a couple of good drinks th ey sang one of the famous english songs
SENORITA SENORITA ITS SPRING TIME But as you see with the goan accent , The good lord heard SEND O RITA SEND O RITA and u know the poo r goans prayers were answered and God sent them their RITA, OOPS Bad luck, so now you will see all of them sitting at Dona Paula, just fishing, drinking feni but Sorry no more singing
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Gott dis From Susan through Fr Anil
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