US: Mississippi paper begs other media to "tell our story"
The Sun Herald of Biloxi, Mississipi, a coastal town devastated by Hurricane Katrina, has published an editorial criticising the lack of media coverage of the effects of the disaster on the area, stating its plight has fallen "into a black hole of media obscurity."
The editorial asserts that the focus of the media's coverage of Katrina has been on New Orleans, making the Mississippi coast "something of a footnote."
Pleas are made to the American media to redress this imbalance: "Our plea to newspapers and television and radio and Web sites across the land is ... Please, tell our story. Hear the voice of our people and tell it far and wide. We are here. Do not forsake us. We are no footnote."
This editorial is yet another example of how local newspapers in the areas affected by Katrina have mobilised to support their communities and represent their interests nationally. (see previous posting)
For the full text of the editorial see here.
Source: Editor and Publisher, The Sun Herald
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A very short article appeared also on the website of La Libre Belgique on Wednesday evening as coming from AFP
http://www.lalibre.be/article.phtml?id=10&subid=91&art_id=271743
Manifeste contre le «totalitarisme islamique» (AFP)
Mis en ligne le 01/03/2006
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L'HEBDOMADAIRE SATIRIQUE français «Charlie Hebdo» publie dans son numéro de mercredi un manifeste de douze intellectuels, dont Salman Rushdie, Taslima Nasreen, Ayaan Hirsi Ali et Bernard Henri-Lévy, intitulé «Ensemble contre le nouveau totalitarisme, l'islamisme». «Après avoir vaincu le fascisme, le nazisme, le stalinisme, le monde fait face à une nouvelle menace globale de type totalitaire: l'islamisme. Nous, écrivains, journalistes, intellectuels, appelons à la résistance au totalitarisme religieux et à la promotion de la liberté, de l'égalité des chances et de la laïcité pour tous», affirme le manifeste. Selon ce dernier, il «ne s'agit pas d'un choc des civilisations ou d'un antagonisme Occident-Orient mais d'une lutte globale qui oppose les démocrates aux théocrates».
© La Libre Belgique 2006
5 Newspapers printed the Manifesto in Denmark:
The Manifesto: Together facing the new totalitarianism, was published in extendo by all leading five national newspapers in Denmark 2.3.06.
Followed by nearly 80 commenting articles.
Spread on many pages in the leading newspapers.
And with leading comments from the newspapers editors.
In Berlingske Tidende (Conservative - circulation 120.000). 6 total pages about the manifest.
In Jyllands Posten (Center-right - circulation 150.000). 5 total pages.
In Politiken (Liberal - circulation 125.000). 2 total pages.
And in the two intellectual newspapers:
Kristeligt Dagblad (Christian-liberal - circulation 20.000). 1 total page.
Information (Left-wing -circulation 25.000). 2 total pages.
Swedens leading newspaper, Dagens Nyheter, had a leading comment on a total page about the Manifesto 2.3.06
Information from Viggo Odin Society.
I see foolish this manifesto. They are afraid of the menace of therorism and totalilarism of islam. No one has injured before the East interested on West. They are ignoring all that arent as them. They say liberalism and democracy. No that is wrong because they want their democracy not the democracy