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Asia After TrumpSINGAPORE – When the Trilateral Commission – a group of political and business leaders, journalists, and academics – met here recently, many expressed concern about the decline of American leadership in Asia.
For starters, prisoners at Alcatraz who broke rules or were violent were punished by being put in “D Block,” where the cells had no windows; at Gitmo, all the cells that journalists are shown lack windows or natural light.
At large, planned political events, journalists outnumber, and immensely out spend, the "participants."
At the 1992 Republican Party convention, for example, 15,000 journalists were present to "cover" the 4,303 delegates, who in any case, had very little to decide.
We describe these events as gatherings of politicians that attract journalists eager to "cover" the events.
But it would be more accurate to see them as gatherings of journalists that attract politicians eager to be voluminously covered - that is, to get days of free political advertising.
As the numbers of journalists covering major political events suggests, the size of the communications apparatus has increased to a point where quantitative change becomes qualitative change.
Slowly, hands were raised: by my count, more than half of the Germans present (government officials, journalists, businessmen) raised a hand: they, or their families, had been Vertriebene --expelled from their ancestral homes in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Yugoslavia after World War II.
The decision was based on a controversial law that, among other things, requires any Web site publishing news and commentary about Jordan to appoint an editor from the closed journalists’ union, which electronic-media journalists cannot join, and to be licensed by a government body.
The committee that he tasked with determining the best approach recommended training and organizing electronic journalists; creating a council to address grievances; and establishing an official but voluntary registry of Web-site owners, where anyone seeking to lodge a complaint – or initiate a lawsuit – could find out whom to address.
Following a general election in January, Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour, who had voted against the law as a member of parliament, assured angry Web-site owners and online journalists that he would work with them to find a solution based on goodwill.
Rethinking Humanitarian Aid in Civil WarsLONDON – In recent months, nongovernmental organizations and journalists have accused the United Nations of bias toward Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime and failure to distribute humanitarian aid to rebel-controlled areas of Syria.
Civilians are killed daily in Mogadishu, there are roadside bombs and mortar attacks, and politicians and journalists are targeted.
Few foreign journalists venture in – it is too difficult and too dangerous for them to work inside the country – and local reporters are harassed by the authorities.
Neither Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, nor any European institution has exposed a single human-rights problem in India that Indian citizens, journalists, and NGOs have not already revealed and handled within India’s democratic political space.
The Public and Its ProblemsCHICAGO – On a recent visit to Europe, I found economists, journalists, and business people thoroughly frustrated with their politicians.
This dramatic and outrageous gag order – keeping journalists from reporting on a matter of public record and a situation that is of the public interest – led to a furious protest by the Editors’ Guild of India against what it called an “unwarranted intrusion into media freedom.”
Journalists don’t necessarily do this by choice; many are glued to their screens because their companies lack resources, or force them to follow and report on twitter feeds.
By neglecting to seek qualified sources to offset their understandable lack of expertise, journalists produce imprecise – even untrue – reports, and thus fail to guide public debate in a constructive direction.
In the meantime, scientists must engage public concerns, and journalists must strive for accuracy rather than controversy.
In the 1920s, journalists like H.L. Mencken made Christian fundamentalists in the US look so foolish that they dropped out of politics for several generations.
A Greek Burial for German AusterityBERLIN – Not long ago, German politicians and journalists confidently declared that the euro crisis was over;Germany and the European Union, they believed, had weathered the storm.
Responsible people around the globe, particularly politicians and journalists, must remain focused on Darfur.
One of the Syrian government’s first moves after it began shooting protesters, for example, was to expel all foreign journalists.
The Chinese government barred all foreign journalists from Tibet when it cracked down hard on protesters before the 2008 Olympics.
A government’s banning of journalists or blocking of news and social-media Web sites that were previously allowed should itself be regarded as an early warning sign of a crisis meriting international scrutiny.
Suppose foreign investors wrote contracts providing that the expulsion and banning of foreign journalists or widespread blocking of access to international news sources and social media constituted a sign of political risk sufficient to suspend investor obligations under the contract.
Likewise, it remains uncertain whether journalists will hold their tongues respectfully or give Trump the kind of shellacking that Peter Hoekstra, the new US ambassador to the Netherlands, has been getting from the Dutch press.
Unlike Cristina Kirchner, who gave long-winded speeches but held no press conferences and took no questions from journalists, Macri answered queries until reporters had none left.
Equally important, no newspapers were closed, stories suppressed, or journalists harassed, as occurred in earlier Kazakh elections.
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