Murdering the messenger
In These Times
by Steve Weinberg
The title of Anna Politkovskaya s new posthumous anthology, Is Journalism Worth Dying For?: Final Dispatches (Melville House, April), poses a provocative question. The answer is probably no. But freedom of speech and freedom from corruption might be worth dying for, and sometimes only journalists can make those freedoms happen. Politkovskaya, who worked as an investigative reporter for the independent Moscow newspaper Novaya Gazeta until she was assassinated in October 2006 at the age of 48, asked herself this question in a piece never submitted for publication...
http://tinyurl.com/44mhvez
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Politkovskaya
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Steve+Weinberg
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by Steve Weinberg
The title of Anna Politkovskaya s new posthumous anthology, Is Journalism Worth Dying For?: Final Dispatches (Melville House, April), poses a provocative question. The answer is probably no. But freedom of speech and freedom from corruption might be worth dying for, and sometimes only journalists can make those freedoms happen. Politkovskaya, who worked as an investigative reporter for the independent Moscow newspaper Novaya Gazeta until she was assassinated in October 2006 at the age of 48, asked herself this question in a piece never submitted for publication...
http://tinyurl.com/44mhvez
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Politkovskaya
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Steve+Weinberg
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