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Saudi Arabia: King requests an end to pictures of women in newspapers

Posted by Dominique Lewis Tuohy on May 17, 2006 at 10:52 AM

King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has asked newspaper editors to cease publishing pictures of women because such photos could 'lead men astray'. He said: "The youth are driven by emotion ... and sometimes they can be lead astray," and then asked the editors to "please cut down on" printing images of women. The king appealed to editors' feelings about the representation of women close to them, asking how they would feel about their wife, daughter or sister 'appearing in this way.'



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Posted in : Newsrooms and Journalism

France: Youth ignore newspaper requests for protest photos; turn to Internet

Posted by John Burke on March 20, 2006 at 1:12 PM
Over the past 10 days, two French dailies, Libération and Le Monde, have been soliciting readers to submit photos of the ongoing protests over a labor law that has aroused France’s university student population and unions. But instead of sending their images to the traditional press, many French people are turning to the popular photo sharing website, Flickr.



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