The Double Seven Day Scuffle was a physical altercation on July 7, 1963, in Saigon, South Vietnam. The secret police of Ngô Đình Nhu—the brother of President Ngô Đình Diệm—attacked a group of US journalists who were covering protests held by Buddhists on the ninth anniversary of Diệm's rise to power. Peter Arnett of the Associated Press (AP) was punched on the nose, and the quarrel quickly ended after David Halberstam of "The New York Times", being much taller than Nhu's men, counterattacked and caused the secret police to retreat. Arnett and his colleague, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and photographer Malcolm Browne, were later accosted by policemen at their office and taken away for questioning on suspicion of attacking policemen.
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Double Seven Day scuffle
Double Seven Day scuffle | Introduction
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what is the double seven day scuffle?
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A physical altercation on July 7, 1963.
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between who?
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The secret police of Ngô Đình Nhu—the brother of President Ngô Đình Diệm—and a group of US journalists.
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who was arrested?
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Browne and Arnett.
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who was interrogated?
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Browne and Arnett.
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why did it take place?
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Because of the Huế Phật Đản shootings.
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was anybody injured or harmed?
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Yes, nine unarmed Buddhist civilians were killed.
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were browne and arnett the us journalists?
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After their release, the journalists went to the US embassy in Saigon to complain about their treatment at the hands of Diệm's officials and asked for US government protection. Their appeals were dismissed, as was a direct appeal to the White House. Through the efforts of US Ambassador Frederick Nolting, the assault charges laid against the journalists were subsequently dropped. Vietnamese Buddhists reacted to the incident by contending that Diệm's men were planning to assassinate monks, while Madame Nhu repeated earlier claims that the US government had been trying to overthrow her brother-in-law. Browne took photographs of Arnett's bloodied face, which were published in newspapers worldwide.
Double Seven Day scuffle | Introduction
The Double Seven Day Scuffle was a physical altercation on July 7, 1963, in Saigon, South Vietnam. The secret police of Ngô Đình Nhu—the brother of President Ngô Đình Diệm—attacked a group of US journalists who were covering protests held by Buddhists on the ninth anniversary of Diệm's rise to power. Peter Arnett of the Associated Press (AP) was punched on the nose, and the quarrel quickly ended after David Halberstam of "The New York Times", being much taller than Nhu's men, counterattacked and caused the secret police to retreat. Arnett and his colleague, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and photographer Malcolm Browne, were later accosted by policemen at their office and taken away for questioning on suspicion of attacking policemen.
Double Seven Day scuffle | Introduction
The police smashed Browne's camera, but his photographic film survived the impact. The other journalists were jostled and rocks were thrown at them. Photos of Arnett's bloodied face were circulated in US newspapers and caused further ill-feeling towards Diem's regime, with the images of the burning Thich Quang Duc on the front pages still fresh in the minds of the public. Halberstam's report estimated that the altercation lasted for around ten minutes and also admitted that the pressmen had tried to apprehend the policeman who had smashed Browne's camera but were shielded by the rock-wielding policeman's colleagues. He also claimed that the secret policemen had also tried to seize equipment from Masraf and Faas.
Double Seven Day scuffle | Incident
Browne and Arnett in turn filed charges against the police over the altercation, and demanded compensation for the damage to their photographic equipment. Arnett and Browne were temporarily released in the evening, after which the whole Saigon press corps stormed the US embassy. Browne and Arnett were called in for five hours of questioning on the following day. Arnett was accompanied by a British embassy official who, reflecting Arnett's New Zealand citizenship, provided consular assistance on behalf of Wellington. In the end, Diem agreed to have the charges against Browne and Arnett dropped after hours of heated argument with US Ambassador Frederick Nolting, who had returned from his vacation.
Double Seven Day scuffle | Arrest and interrogation
The police, who were loyal to Ngo Dinh Nhu, thereupon punched Arnett in the nose, knocked him to the ground, kicked him with their pointed-toe shoes, and broke his camera. Halberstam, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the Buddhist crisis, was a tall man, standing around taller than the average Vietnamese policeman. He waded into the fracas swinging his arms, reportedly saying "Get back, get back, you sons of bitches, or I'll beat the shit out of you!" Nhu's men ran away without waiting for a Vietnamese translation, but not before Browne had clambered up a power pole and taken photos of Arnett's bloodied face.
Double Seven Day scuffle | Incident
The indignant reporters stridently accused the Diem regime of causing the altercation, whereas the police claimed that the journalists threw the first punch. Embassy official John Mecklin noted that even Diem's media officials were privately skeptical about the veracity of the testimony of Nhu's men. In a heated meeting at the embassy, the press corps demanded that William Trueheart, the acting US Ambassador to South Vietnam in the absence of the vacationing Frederick Nolting, deliver a formal protest to Diem on behalf of the American government. Trueheart angered them by refusing to do so and blaming both sides for the confrontation.
Double Seven Day scuffle | Reaction
Later on during the day of the altercation, the police collected Browne and Arnett from the AP bureau in Saigon and took the pair to what they described as a "safe house". The police interrogators said that they would be arrested but were unspecific about the charges. One charge was that of assaulting two police officers, but the interrogators hinted that more serious offences such as organising illegal demonstrations were being considered. The officers conversed among themselves in French, a language which the reporters did not speak, but Arnett thought that they mentioned the word "espionage". After four hours of questioning, the pair were charged with assault.
Double Seven Day scuffle | Arrest and interrogation
Later on the same day, the US State Department released a statement in Washington DC, announcing that the Saigon Embassy had informally complained to and asked Diem's regime for an explanation regarding the incident, and said that officials were studying various accounts of the incident and that it was American policy to look out for the interests of their citizens regardless of their background or occupation. Since the embassy was unwilling to provide government protection against police aggression, the journalists appealed directly to the White House. Browne, Halberstam, Sheehan and Kalischer wrote a letter to US President John F. Kennedy, asserting that the regime had begun a full-scale campaign of "open physical intimidation to prevent the covering of news which we feel Americans have a right to know", which was noted by the press secretary Pierre Salinger.
Double Seven Day scuffle | Reaction
American pressmen had been alerted to an upcoming Buddhist demonstration to coincide with Double Seven Day at Chanatareansey Pagoda in the north of Saigon. The nine-man group, which included Arnett, Browne, AP photographer Horst Faas, David Halberstam, Neil Sheehan of "United Press International", and CBS's Peter Kalischer and photographer Joseph Masraf waited outside the building with their equipment. After an hour-long religious ceremony, the Buddhist monks, numbering around 300, filed out of the pagoda into a narrow alley along a side street, where they were blocked and ordered to stop by plain-clothed policemen. The Buddhists did not resist, but Arnett and Browne began taking photos of the confrontation.
Double Seven Day scuffle | Incident
This drew further negative attention to the behaviour of the Diệm régime amidst the backdrop of the Buddhist crisis.
Double Seven Day scuffle | Introduction
He no longer trusted anyone outside his family and considered himself to be a martyr.
Double Seven Day scuffle | Incident
He said that he did not believe a formal protest was possible given that it could not be proven that the violence was pre-meditated but claimed to believe the journalists' version of events. He also noted that Vietnamese officials had claimed that incident was simply a matter of "a few people lost their heads". In his report to Washington, Trueheart asserted that the uniformed policemen had tacitly helped their plainclothed counterparts, but he also had "no doubt that [the] reporters, at least once [the] fracas had started, acted in [a] belligerent manner towards [the] police". Trueheart contended that since the journalists had a long history of bad blood with the Diem regime, their word could not be taken over that of the Vietnamese police.
Double Seven Day scuffle | Reaction
During his early years in journalism, Arnett worked in Southeast Asia, largely based in Bangkok. In 1960 he started publishing a small English-language newspaper in Laos. Eventually, he made his way to Vietnam, which the French had abandoned after being defeated at Dien Bien Phu by communists from North Vietnam. Arnett became a reporter for the Associated Press, based in Saigon in the South, in the years when the United States began to get involved in the civil conflict and through the Vietnam War. On 7 July 1963, in what became known as the Double Seven Day scuffle, he was injured in a widely reported physical altercation between a group of western journalists and South Vietnamese undercover police.
Peter Arnett | Vietnam
The night of July 6, 1963, had started in a festive mood as Diệm awarded decorations to military officers at a ceremony. Among those in the audience were Generals Trần Văn Đôn and Dương Văn Minh, the Chief of Staff of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam and the Presidential Military Advisor, respectively. They had returned from observing SEATO military exercises in Thailand, where they had been informed about the regional disquiet over Diem's policies towards the Buddhists.
Double Seven Day scuffle | Background
Other journalists who appeared were investigative reporter Ralph de Toledano, then with "Newsweek" magazine, and Godfrey Smith.
Answers for Americans | Overview
Diem's address on Double Seven Day worsened the mood of Vietnamese society. He stated that the "problems raised by the General Association of Buddhists have just been settled." He reinforced perceptions that he was out of touch by attributing any lingering problems to the "underground intervention of international red agents and Communist fellow travelers who in collusion with fascist ideologues disguised as democrats were surreptitiously seeking to revive and rekindle disunity at home while arousing public opinions against us abroad". The remark about fascists was seen as a reference to the conspiratorial Dai Viet Quoc Dan Dang who had long been enemies of Diem, but his address attacked all those who had criticised him in the past.
Double Seven Day scuffle | Incident
Murphy nonetheless observed that the question of "whether the press is guilty of a double standard – protecting its own while reporting on other kidnapping cases" was likely to become "the subject of extended debate". Bob Steele, a media ethicist at the Poynter Institute, comments: Bill Keller of the "Times" told the "Washington Post" that "there was a pretty firm consensus" among those whom he had consulted "that you really amp up the danger when you go public ... It makes us cringe to sit on a news story," but when a person's life was at stake, "the freedom to publish includes the freedom not to publish."
Kidnapping of David Rohde | Media blackout
In reaction to the journalist's deaths, people opened their eyes to the dangers that these men face on a day-to-day basics just trying to do their jobs. Precautions were starting to be made in these foreign countries when journalists were traveling. In the time of their death, they had no security as they could walk around freely. They had no form of protection, but from each other. There was demand for better protection. Now, journalists have security whether it be where they are staying or following them around as they work. Not only are the journalist's put into danger, but there camera crew or people helping them as well.
Shootings of Gabriel Grüner and Volker Krämer | Reactions
CNN broadcast Arnett's extended call live for several hours, with a picture of Arnett as video. Soon the other journalists left Iraq, including the two CNN colleagues, which left Arnett as the sole remaining reporter. His accounts of civilian damage caused by the bombing were not well received by the coalition war administration. Its spokesmen had emphasized terms such as "smart bombs" and "surgical precision" in their public statements, in an effort to project keeping civilian casualties would be at a minimum. White House sources would later attack Arnett, saying that he was being used as a tool for Iraqi disinformation.
Peter Arnett | Gulf War
Roberts, Foulsham, Murphy, sports editor Gerry Spratt, business editor Michael Todd, Hulse, presentation editor Colin Powers, reporter Scott Hadly and Brantingham received an "Ethics in Journalism" award from the Society of Professional Journalists on August 11, 2006. McCaw argued in a letter that the Society was being "used by this group to further their own political and personal agendas." The entire editorial staff was awarded the Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism given at the University of Oregon in spring 2007.
Santa Barbara News-Press controversy | Public response
Two TV journalists have become known as the Scud Stud:
Scud Stud | Introduction
In 1972, several black reporters at the "Washington Post", dubbed the Metro Seven, filed a landmark Equal Employment Opportunity Commission complaint against the newspaper. It is believed to be the first of its kind in the nation. Those staff members, including Richard Prince and Leon Dash, were also among the pioneering members of the National Association of Black Journalists." The group was met with this reaction from editor Ben Bradlee, who said at the time it was “an insult to our commitment, vague and totally unacceptable.” A round of meetings between the Metro reporters and editors followed, ending in an impasse.
Richard Prince (journalist) | Metro Seven
Infamous Scribblers: The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American Journalism is a book by Eric Burns, a journalist and historian, about the American press in the country's early history. The first edition of "Infamous Scribblers" was published in 2006. Another edition was printed in 2007.
Infamous Scribblers | Introduction
Sean McCormack, the State Department's assistant secretary for public affairs, said to his Sudanese counterpart, "I'll convey your desires about not permitting reporters to ask questions, but that's all I'll do. We have a free press." McCormack's Sudanese counterpart replied, "There is no freedom of the press here."
Andrea Mitchell | Sudanese incident
In the stories, African Americans were featured as "crack whores." The deaths of the NBA player Len Bias and the NFL player Don Rogers from cocaine overdose only added to the media frenzy. Alexander claimed in her book, "Between October 1988 and October 1989, "The Washington Post" alone ran 1,565 stories about the 'drug scourge.'" One example of this double standard is the comparison of the deaths of Michael Brown and Dillon Taylor. On August 9, 2014, news broke out that Brown, a young unarmed black man, was shot and killed by a white policeman. The story spread throughout news media, which explained that the incident had to do with race.
Media bias in the United States | Race
The next year, he returned to "City Paper", replacing his longtime friend Erik Wemple as editor. He has also written for "Slate", the "Washington Post", "Philadelphia", the "Daily Beast", the "Boston Globe" and other publications.
Michael Schaffer (journalist) | Introduction
There, he was captured by Gaddafi loyalist forces and held for 44 days. The next year, James Foley was captured in Syria while he was working for Agence France-Presse and "GlobalPost".
James Foley (journalist) | Introduction
Other journalists among the committee's early members were Kenneth Auchincloss, Elsie Carper, Lyle Denniston, James Doyle, James Goodale, and Walter Cronkite.
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press | History
The book describes the history of early American newspapers in the colonial period, the American Revolution, and the early Republic. Burns credits journalism for shaping the early country's ideals and politics. He argues that partisan reporting and sensationalism are very old practices in the American media: they originated in and were at their worst in the era he explores. Most of the book is about the history of the journalists themselves, narrated in a lively style, within which historical analysis is weaved.
Infamous Scribblers | Overview
On March 21, 2011 CNN foreign correspondent Nic Robertson criticized Harrigan's coverage of Operation Odyssey Dawn and allegations that the Libyan government had used foreign journalists as human shields against a coalition air-strike on Mummar Gaddafi's compound in Tripoli. The controversy arose when Harrigan refused to take part of a trip organized by the Libyan government to inspect the site of the attack. According to Robertson, the Fox News team sent a non-editorial member of their staff instead of Harrigan.
Steve Harrigan | Libya Controversy
Henry, Karen Kaiser, David Lauter, Dahlia Lithwick, Margaret Low, Jane Mayer, Tony Mauro, Andrea Mitchell, Maggie Mulvihill, James Neff, Carol Rosenberg, Thomas C. Rubin, Charlie Savage, Ben Smith, Jennifer Sondag, Pierre Thomas, Saundra Torry, Vickie Walton-James, Judy Woodruff, and Paul Steiger.
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press | Introduction
Freedman and Breckman called the editor on the air the next week to apologize (and to correct the error by causing an incident in real life that mirrored the one they had earlier fabricated). Subsequently, the story circulated that the "Times" might, as a result of this incident, cancel the "Metropolitan Diary" altogether.
Seven Second Delay | Introduction
Seven alleged a Nine reporter offered about $100,000 to a guide not to help Seven with their story. Peter Meakin, Seven's director of news and current affairs, said, "There is evidence to support the claims that, in particular, this man Cornelius was offered $100,000 not to rescue the boy."
Today Tonight | The "Wa-Wa" controversy
However, "TDT" sometimes took a more irreverent approach to stories. One notable example of its occasionally controversial editorial approach was a musical comedy sketch that satirised the actions of then-NSW Premier Robert Askin, who was reported to have ordered his driver to "run over the bastards" when anti-war demonstrators threw themselves in the front the car in which he and visiting U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson were travelling.
This Day Tonight | Journalists
"Journalists have always had relationships with people that others might find unsavory," she said. "We're not in this to choose sides, we're to report what's going on from all sides."
Bilal Hussein | Associated Press response
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Ray Sprigle | References
Published: Saturday, 27 May 1758 Johnson bemoans the repetitiveness of news coverage. He suggests that, instead of announcing an event all at once and then rehashing it endlessly, newspaper writers should reveal the story gradually to keep readers entertained.
The Idler (1758–60) | No 7. "Scheme for news-writers" (Johnson)
The press coverage was summarised in English.
Nora Neset Gjøen | Introduction
He also received acclaim during his student journalism days, winning Feature Writer of the Year (2005) and Critic of the Year (2004) at the Guardian Student Media Awards.
Steve Dinneen | Introduction
Bob Greene, Les Payne and Knut Royce were the "Newsday" journalists Karaduman sued. Although Karaduman was cleared of the drug charge in that there had been proven "substantial falsity" in the stories, there was no judgment against "Newsday" in that the story had not been grossly irresponsible.
Mahmut Karaduman | Introduction
This contradicted testimony to the Culture, Media and Sport Committee by newspaper executives and senior Met officials that Mulcaire acted on his own and that there was no evidence of hacking by other than him and a single "rogue reporter," namely Clive Goodman. Within five weeks of this article appearing, Ian Edmundson was suspended from "News of the World", Andy Coulson resigned as Chief Press Secretary to David Cameron, the Crown Prosecution Service began a review of evidence it had, and the Met renewed its investigation into phone hacking, something it had declined to do since 2007.
News media phone hacking scandal | More investigative reporting
On 3 May, World Press Freedom Day, around 100 Burundian journalists marched into Bujumbura to demonstrate support for Kavumbagu. On 13 May, Kavumbagu was acquitted of treason, but found guilty on the charge of publishing an article "likely to discredit the state or economy". He was sentenced to eight months' imprisonment and released for time served. Human Rights Watch and the Committee to Protect Journalists protested the verdict, the latter reiterating its belief that "Burundi should decriminalize press offenses and allow journalists to speak and write freely without fear of harassment or arrest".
Jean-Claude Kavumbagu | Bombing response and second trial
Journalists routinely invent stories. To stimulate circulation, newspapers sensationalize trivial stories and destroy lives and reputations. Errors and slanders are never retracted, or the retraction is buried in the paper months later. The editors and journalists of the Associated Press (AP) wire service fail to serve the public interest in the same way as employees of the individual papers. Controlled by 41 large newspaper corporations, the AP acts in their interests.
The Brass Check | Detailed synopsis
Word of the slapping incidents spread informally among soldiers before eventually circulating to war correspondents. One of the nurses who witnessed the 10 August incident apparently told her boyfriend, a captain in the Seventh Army public affairs detachment. Through him, a group of four journalists covering the Sicily operation heard of the incident: Demaree Bess of the "Saturday Evening Post", Merrill Mueller of NBC News, Al Newman of "Newsweek", and John Charles Daly of CBS News. The four journalists interviewed Etter and other witnesses, but decided to bring the matter to Eisenhower instead of filing the story with their editors.
George S. Patton slapping incidents | Media attention
H. Keeble, and Richard R. Wright, who were all prominent speakers at the 1886 Atlantic City convention of the Negro Press Association. He was also a correspondent and friend to Ida B. Wells. In 1887, Arneaux returned to the Sun and then moved to the "New York World". In August, Arneaux again presented at the National Colored Press Convention, which was in Louisville, Kentucky that year. Arneaux was noted for being one of the few black journalists writing for non-African American papers, which included "Sun", "World", and "Daily News".
John A. Arneaux | Journalism
If a journalist somewhere still wears a cuff, so will we." The campaign was launched at the Newseum in 2015.
Press Uncuffed | Introduction
Nineteenth-century women reporters were confined to social news coverage, which did not justify the cost of telegraphing. African American reporters were limited to the black press, which were then all weekly papers. Not until the 1940s did women and minorities overcome these obstacles.
Press gallery | Introduction
Its very length, and its combination of intense focus interspersed with frequent digressions – about how to avoid actually working, the tendency of Rotring pens to clog, contemporary news topics (mortgage rate increases / African famines / American defence spending…) and the maximum and minimum temperatures of the days in question (minus 3 and minus 7 degrees Fahrenheit) made the audience feel at one with the process..."
John Vernon Lord | Brighton
Nick Davies reported for the "Observer" that "There was glass breaking, people screaming, black smoke towering out of burning caravans and everywhere there seemed to be people being bashed and flattened and pulled by the hair. Men, women and children were led away, shivering, swearing, crying, bleeding, leaving their homes in pieces." Freelance photographer Ben Gibson, engaged by "The Observer" that day, was arrested and charged with obstructing a police officer. He was later acquitted. Another freelance photographer, Tim Malyon, had to flee at one point.
Battle of the Beanfield | Journalists
The seven members of the 69th and their affiliation besides Post: In addition to the writers of the 69th five newsreel cameramen took part in the training with the Writing 69th. They and their affiliations were:
Robert Post (journalist) | Members
By 2006, the group had offered 1½-day sessions to more than 7,300 journalists in more than 120 print, broadcast and on-line newsrooms. The committee was founded by longtime journalist and former Nieman Foundation curator Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel, the director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism.
Committee of Concerned Journalists | Introduction
Froomkin was also the deputy editor of "Nieman Watchdog: Questions the press should ask", a blog hosted by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University which "seeks to encourage more informed reporting by soliciting probing questions from experts."
Dan Froomkin | "Nieman Watchdog: Questions the press should ask"
The program usually comprised several pre-recorded items and live interviews, focusing on issues of national or global significance. The program traditionally featured interviews with politicians. Reporters in its last season included: Tracy Bowden, Matt Peacock, Andy Park, Sean Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Dylan Welch, Louise Milligan, Madeleine Morris, Conor Duffy, Sarah Whyte, David Lewis, Monique Schafter, Alex Mann, Michael Atkin(s), and political editor Sabra Lane. Former reporters had included political editor Heather Ewart, Deborah Cornwall, Greg Hoy, Mark Willacy, Michael Brissenden, Murray McLaughlin, Mary Gearin, Mike Sexton, John Taylor, Peter McCutcheon, Paul Lockyer, Lisa Whitehead, Natasha Johnson, David Mark, Genevieve Hussey, Mark Bannerman and Jonathan Harley.
The 7.30 Report | Format
Despite this, with the assistance of the other Dublin newspapers, the "Independent" was able to appear the next day, and the owners were awarded £16,000 pounds in compensation. According to Breen in his memoir, neither the "Independent", nor any other Dublin newspaper, ever dared refer to the IRA as 'murderers or assassins' again.
Martin Savage | Lord French's car and the gun battle
A subsequent conference on telephone privacy at the National Press Club addressed this and similar instances of surveillance of reporters.
Gregory Millman | Introduction
Those who have entered the country regardless have been targeted. Within a month of the protests taking off, at least seven local and international journalists were detained, and at least one of them was beaten. 'Citizen journalist' Mohammed Abdelmawla al-Hariri was arrested in April 2012, tortured in prison, and sentenced to death in May 2012 for giving an interview for Al Jazeera. Jordanian Salameh Kaileh was tortured and detained in deplorable conditions before being deported.
Media coverage of the Syrian Civil War | Attacks on journalists
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Stephen Colbert at the 2006 White House Correspondents' Dinner | Early press coverage and allegations of a media blackout
Thompson responded with a front-page editorial defending the rights of the press. Though accounts differ on the specifics of the meeting, the national firestorm that followed resulted in Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins issuing a clarifying edict that Department of Labor conciliators should not interfere with the press. "Please keep in mind always in your work of adjusting industrial disputes," read the edict, "that you have no right to tell any editor what he may or may not print in his news or editorial column. There is nothing in the NRA or any other federal statute which gives you such a right." The entirety of Title I of the act was later ruled unconstitutional.
The Tallassee Tribune | History
While dispersing demonstrators, the police attacked a news crew from Network Seven, a major Australian media outlet. Cameraman Timothy Myers was hit with a riot shield and punched by police, while a different officer attempted to attack reporter Amelia Brace with a baton as she fled. Both Myers and Brace were also shot with rubber bullets and attacked with tear gas. The police actions were criticized by both Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese. Morrison said the event was "troubling" and directed the Australian Embassy to investigate and to express "strong concerns" to U.S. authorities. The Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance, which represents Australian journalists, submitted a letter to the U.S.
Donald Trump photo op at St. John's Church | Australian response to attack on Australian journalists
While covering the Ferguson protests in 2014, officers from the Ferguson Police Department shot rubber bullets and tear gas at an AJAM news crew including correspondent Ash-har Quraishi, who after yelling, "We're the press" caused them to abandon their recording equipment and run to safety. The incident was caught on camera by KSDK-TV, a local NBC affiliate who was filming from across the street. An officer was captured on video turning the reporters' video camera toward the ground and dismantling their equipment. Other incidents, including the arrests of two print journalists for "The Washington Post" and "The Huffington Post", also occurred during the same time period.
Al Jazeera America | Incidents
One of Browne's photographs remains affixed to the sedan in which Quảng Đức was riding and is part of a tourist attraction in Huế. For Browne and the AP, the pictures were a marketing success. Ray Herndon, the United Press International (UPI) correspondent who had forgotten to take his camera on the day, was harshly criticized in private by his employer. UPI estimated that 5,000 readers in Sydney, then a city of around 1.5–2 million, had switched to AP news sources.
Thích Quảng Đức | Political and media impact
He saw his Whitehall brief as being in advance of the journalistic practices of that time. Cabinet Ministers were instructed by Prime Minister Harold Wilson's private secretary not to co-operate with Howard. Civil servants received similar instructions. Phillip Knightley reported a conversation with Howard in 2003 in which Howard had said Wilson "understood I was only trying to do my job but he had a job to do, too, and his was more important than mine. He made it very plain that all conventional sources of information would remain shut until I was willing to return to the cosy but essentially sham game of being a political correspondent." Wilson is thought by journalist John Simpson to have had a preference for secrecy and to have been fearful that such a practice would give his enemies and rivals a potential outlet.
Anthony Howard (journalist) | First posts in journalism
Michael Schaffer is an American journalist who is editor of the "Washingtonian". Previously, he was editorial director of "The New Republic" and editor "Washington City Paper". After graduating from Columbia University in 1995, Schaffer began his career as a writer at "City Paper", where he eventually became the editor David Carr (journalist)'s deputy. He later worked at "U.S. News and World Report", where he covered national politics and the aftermath of the September 11 attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan. He later worked for the "Philadelphia Inquirer", mainly focusing on municipal politics and doing a tour of duty in Iraq. In 2007, he left the "Inquirer" to work on a book, "One Nation Under Dog", published by Henry Holt in 2009.
Michael Schaffer (journalist) | Introduction
Steen left "Punch" in 2001 and became co-editor (with Midgley) of the Scurra gossip column on the "Daily Mirror". The paper's then editor and now television presenter Piers Morgan called Steen "the world's most mischievous journalist". The column was dropped when Morgan was sacked in 2004.
James Steen (journalist) | Career
Furthermore, when the Iraqi authorities decided to expel the rest of the Western correspondents CNN’s team was able to stay behind because producer Robert Winner had spent the last months trying to build cooperative relations with government officials in Baghdad. During the first days of the bombing the CNN team was able to report live via radio from their hotel suite in the Rashid Hotel, while no other network was able to do this. The CNN live coverage from the hotel was also significant since it was unedited. This event was a critical turn to the 24-hour news coverage. Out of the CNN correspondents the one who received the most attention was Peter Arnett who became known for the controversy of his reportages.
Media coverage of the Gulf War | U.S. television coverage and the CNN factor
He is a board member of the Canadian Journalism Forum on Violence and Trauma and the International News Safety Institute - two groups working to improve physical and psychological conditions for journalists working on stressful or dangerous assignments.
Jeffrey Dvorkin | Introduction
Thomas "Tom" Jeffrey Knudson (born 6 July 1953) is an American journalist and a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner in 1985 and 1992.
Tom Knudson | Introduction
In 2006 he won the Foreign Press Association's award for Best Story by a Foreign Correspondent, for his cover story on how Queen Elizabeth has modernized the monarchy.
Jef McAllister | Introduction
Beginning in 1981, Arnett worked for CNN for 18 years, ending in 1999. During the Gulf War, he became a household name worldwide as the only reporter to have live coverage directly from Baghdad, especially during the first 16 hours. His dramatic reports often were accompanied by the sound of air raid sirens blaring and US bombs exploding in the background. Together with two other CNN journalists, Bernard Shaw and John Holliman, Arnett brought continuous coverage from Baghdad for the 16 initial intense hours of the war (17 January 1991). Although 40 foreign journalists were present at the Al-Rashid Hotel in Baghdad at the time, only CNN possessed the means — a private phone line connected to neighboring Amman, Jordan — to communicate to the outside world.
Peter Arnett | Gulf War
The killings sparked nationwide protests by South Vietnam's Buddhist majority against the policies of Diệm's regime. The Buddhists demanded that Diệm give them religious equality, but with their demands unfulfilled, the protests increased in magnitude. The most notable of these was the self-immolation of Thích Quảng Đức on June 11, which was iconically photographed by the media and became a negative symbol of the Diệm régime. Known as Double Seven Day, July 7 was the ninth anniversary of Diệm's 1954 ascension to Prime Minister of the State of Vietnam. In October 1955, following a fraudulent referendum, Diệm established the Republic of Vietnam, generally known as South Vietnam, and declared himself President.
Double Seven Day scuffle | Background
"Stabroek News" is known for the readers' letters section in which readers can ask questions and voice their opinions. These sections often reached three pages a day.
David de Caires | Introduction
The women reporters wrote human-interest pieces, emphasizing sentiment and melodrama.
Evelyn Nesbit | Press response
press, is "a flock of reporters pecking at a politician." Not commonly used in society.
Press gaggle | Introduction
A scuffle at an Or Akiva shopping mall between Jewish and Arab citizens resulted in an attack on the responding police and the throwing of a Molotov cocktail.
October 2000 riots | 7 October
The articles led Prime Minister Rob Muldoon to bar all "Dominion" reporters from his press conferences.
Richard Long (journalist) | Introduction
Putzel said the ideal reporter must be a lawyer, a "word nut", and a "double revolving peripatetic nit-picker."
Henry Putzel Jr. | Introduction
News & World Report, where she wrote for the Thomas Jefferson Street blog, and also wrote a syndicated newspaper column for 20 years for the Scripps Howard News Service which won multiple journalism awards.
Bonnie Erbé | Introduction
The New York "Sun", on the other hand, whose readers tended to come from the working class, argued that Robinson was guilty and that he was able to use money and the influence of wealthy relatives and his employer to buy an acquittal. This theory continued to gain traction for many years later. Most notably, the trial was largely responsible for nationwide changes in the approach to sex and scandal coverage by American journalists. Prior to the case, coverage of such topics by major newspapers was nearly nonexistent. Additionally, some historians credit Bennett with the first journalistic interview, namely that of Rosina Townsend.
Helen Jewett | The press
The weekly investigations column in the Daily Mirror newspaper edited by Andrew Penman and Nick Sommerlad. In March 2010 they were awarded the Cudlipp award for campaigning popular journalism at the British Press Awards The column was previously known as Penman & Greenwood.
Penman and Sommerlad | Introduction
After that they wrote better and more interesting stuff. I took it personal. I got slammed quite a bit. To pick up the paper and read about yourself getting slammed, that doesn't start your day off right."
Steve Carlton | Media silence
Later that year he was hired by "The Washington Post". A year later, he began a column, "Between You and Me," which was distributed daily to 176 Scripps-Howard Newspapers newspapers.
Raymond Clapper | Newspapers
2013 - Editor and Publisher - "10 Newspapers that Do It Right" 2013 - The Atlantic article "Strange Tales from the North Country: A Profitable (Print) Newspaper"
Seven Days (newspaper) | Recognition
After being questioned by the press about allegedly using money provided to her by the State Assembly to attend the launches of her own book, Campagnolo called journalists "scoundrels". She also questioned whether they "have cognitive problems". These remarks were followed by a significant backlash from the journalist community. It prompted journalists' organizations to file charges against her on the State Assembly Ethics Board.
Ana Caroline Campagnolo | Statement against journalists
Both the soldiers and students were surprised to see news stories telling a very different version of events than what they had experienced.
Two Days in October | Introduction
In April 2013, "Any Questions?" presented a "special edition" from New York, "to mark the first 100 days of President Obama's second term." On the panel were: Democratic Member of Congress Donna Edwards, Reuters editor-at-large Harry Evans, Republican Member of Congress Nan Hayworth, and Democratic politician, former Attorney General and Governor of New York state Eliot Spitzer. This edition was broadcast from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
Any Questions? | 2013 New York special
Justice Blackmun, joined by Brennan, concurred in the judgment. He felt that
United States Department of Justice v. Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press | Concurrence
Members of Congress and media figures have questioned the motivations behind the Justice Department's actions, and if they were even warranted: "For five days, reporters at the Associated Press had been sitting on a big scoop about a foiled Al-Qaeda plot at the request of CIA officials. Then, in a hastily scheduled Monday morning meeting, the journalists were asked by agency officials to hold off on publishing the story for just one more day. The CIA officials, who had initially cited national security concerns in an attempt to delay publication, no longer had those worries, according to individuals familiar with the exchange.
2013 articles about the Department of Justice investigations of reporters | Perception
The media reported on this rescue operation extensively and pressed the Coast Guard for real-time information as rescue operations unfolded.
Daniel Webster Cluff | Introduction
The CFA Society of the United Kingdom named him "Journalist of the Year" in 2016.
Philip Coggan | Introduction
As early as the morning following the homicide, news coverage became both chaotic and single-minded, and ground forward with unrelenting momentum. A person, a place, or event, no matter how peripheral to the killing of Stanford White, was seized on by reporters and hyped as newsworthy copy. Facts were thin, but sensationalist reportage was plentiful, in the heyday of tabloid journalism. The hard-boiled male reporters of the yellow press were bolstered by a contingent of female counterparts, christened "Sob Sisters", also known as "The Pity Patrol." Initially, female spectators were allowed in to witness the proceedings. When the case came to trial, the judge banned women from the courtroom – excepting Thaw family members and the female news reporters there on "legitimate business".
Evelyn Nesbit | Press response
Contreras brought back in 2016, with the help of the Carmignac Photojournalism Award, a photojournalism grant which supports each year the production of an investigative photographic report on a region of the world where fundamental rights are threatened, the first proofs of slavery in Libya.
Narciso Contreras | Incident with Associated Press
Continuing reports on the same story were introduced in penny press papers and were read by thousands of people on the same day. This, in combination with the speed of news delivery and thoroughness in the coverage of local news, forever changed the direction of American journalism.
Penny press | Journalists
Founded by members of the Society of Professional Journalists Internet discussion list, it was never affiliated with the SPJ. The paper has no political, corporate or other affiliation, but was founded to give journalists around the world an opportunity to have a financial stake in their own work. Each story carried by the paper earned equity for the correspondent in profits from advertising and subscriptions, and income when their stories sold to other newspapers. The paper began publication on April 10, 1995, becoming the first daily Internet news site with original news and features. Nine days later, the paper's chief correspondent, former Memphis AP bureau chief Bill Johnson, began breaking news coverage of the Alfred P.
American Reporter | History
The Culture, Media and Sport Committee spent 6 September 2011 questioning four witnesses: the News of the World's former editor Colin Myler, News Group Newspapers' former legal manager Tom Crone, its former group human resources director, Daniel Cloke, and News International's former director of legal affairs, Jonathan Chapman:. In September 2016, the Commons privileges committee stated that Colin Myler and Tom Crone had misled the Culture, Media and Sport Committee during that meeting by "answering questions falsely", and found them found in contempt of Parliament. Myler and Crone rejected this finding.
News International phone hacking scandal | Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee
The three investigative reporters published five front page stories in a week, accusing James of “pumping up” his resume.
San Francisco Independent | Newspaper Wars
The following morning the "Daily Express" allowed Pincher a column to refute Wilson's claim. Pincher wrote that Colonel Lohan, the Secretary to the Services, Press and Broadcasting committee (unofficially known as the D-notice committee), had confirmed to him after hearing of Wilson's Commons statement that the two D-notices which Wilson had referred to did not apply to his story. Lohan had nevertheless urged Pincher not to run the story.
D-notice affair | Response from Daily Express
Following the resignation of Fairfax commentator Mike Carlton, "The Daily Telegraph" published a 2-page spread attacking Carlton and competing newspaper the "Sydney Morning Herald". The spread included a composited image of Boston Marathon bombing victim James Costello, with Mr Carlton's face and wearing an Arab headdress. The photoshopped image portrayed Carlton 'escaping Gaza'. The image manipulation drew widespread criticism on social media, and forced the editor to apologise, saying he was unaware of the origin of the image.
The Daily Telegraph (Sydney) | Photoshopping of Mike Carlton onto Boston bombing victim
In spite of his position as a regular columnist, his likeness in the paper above his column was a black and white sketch of his image as opposed to photos as presented for his white counterparts at the paper. In response to question to him c. 1970 from a reader of his column, McElroy responded:
George McElroy (journalist) | Journalism career
Michael Skube is a former journalist who is on the faculty of the Elon University School of Communications. Skube received a Bachelor of Arts from Louisiana State University. In 1975 he began working as a freelance journalist after having worked at the Customs Service. He began writing editorials for the "Raleigh News & Observer" in 1982 and became a book critic for the paper in 1986. In 1989 he won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism and the American Society of News Editors Award for Distinguished Commentary. In the mid-1990s he moved to the "Atlanta Journal-Constitution", where he was a book reviewer and columnist.
Michael Skube | Introduction
Writers for the newspaper included Michael Collins Piper, whose work has been characterized as anti-semitic and James P. Tucker, Jr., a longtime "Spotlight" reporter whose focus was the Bilderberg Group. Articles by Carto also appeared occasionally. James Edwards, who now hosts "The Political Cesspool" (broadcast as a service of the neo-Nazi Stormfront) was also a former writer for the newspaper. The newspaper also runs columns by Joe Sobran, James Traficant, Paul Craig Roberts, Ron Paul, and others. The newspaper's podcast series has featured guests including Brian Baird, Philip Giraldi, Dean Baker, and others. Attendees of the 2006 American Free Press / The Barnes Review, conference included Arthur J.
American Free Press | Contributors