There have been numerous letters published in the TJ over the last few days and weeks critizing both the Irving companies, the paper and the relationship between the two.
Thought you might possibly find the Attached News Story interesting Charles, considering what you are going through with Your Trial.
Maybe Saint John, New Brunswick should be added to the list ?
" Reporters Without Borders lists 13 "enemies of the Internet" Nov 06 2:36 PM US/Eastern
The campaigning group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Monday listed 13 countries it labelled as "enemies of the Internet" ahead of a 24 hour campaign in favour of free access to the web. The 13 countries are: Saudi Arabia, Belarus, Myanmar, China, North Korea, Cuba, Egypt, Iran, Uzbekistan, Syria, Tunisia, Turkmenistan and Vietnam.
Three countries were removed from RSF's 2005 list -- Libya, the Maldives and Nepal.
However the inclusion of Egypt was because "President Hosni Mubarak is displaying an authoritarianism towards the Internet that is particularly worrying," RSF said -- noting the recent imprisonment of three pro-democracy bloggers.
From Tuesday at 10H00 GMT RSF is asking the public to register on its Internet site in "defense of on-line free expression and the fate of bloggers in repressive countries."
Charles,I'm a retired journalist for one of the Major Television Broadcasting companies down here stateside. I'm originally from the province of Ontario before I left Toronto for New York City.
I just thought I'd let you know,
" Several News Agencies, a couple of which just happen to be International Organizations, are watching your trial very closely, and itching to see what the Final Outcome will be."
Yes indeed Blogging is very well respected here in the U.S.A. Blogger's are giving so-called main stream media a Run for their money.
Your current situation was brought to my attention by a reader of your Blog Site.
If found Guilty, be prepared to be Interviewed by a lot of American Press.
You can't control what is written Charles, you may not like what they wrote, but they are reporting the facts. You didn't sit next to the reporter and did sit in different places, you can't fault them for printing that.
However, I didn't see those articles in the Telegraph, however, objectivity is measured in many ways. There's a big difference in all the articles talk in glowing terms about pipelines and terminals, and then just printing some letters to the editors. I have a feeling that if they announced that they would print every letter condemning the pipeline we'd see a flood.
If you read the article the other day on the gas terminal it was positively nauseating. They were actually talking about the aesthetic beauty of the construction site, it was disgusting. The site is one big giantic mess and they're talking in glowing terms even of that as a dump!
How many stories have you read in the Irving paper about the fact that Boston recently closed their gas terminal citing security concerns?
On the weekend there was another burst gas line, and they quickly blamed the private contractors and said 'well, they gotta be better trained'. So who is going to train them? How many articles have you seen about what training is involved and who is going to supply it, and more importantly, who is going MAKE SURE that these contractors have the training.
Is somebody going to die before they say 'well, I guess we should really make sure people are trained'.
How many articles have you seen about federal inventments in national security. In case people haven't noticed, the US isn't the most popular place, if they haven't noticed, most of the oil and gas from Saint John is going to the states. So if your a terrorist are you going to strike at the country which has massive security or are you going to hit the place they get their energy from yet has virtually no emphasis on security.
Those don't even get into environmental disasters like hurricanes or storms which they say are likely to increase. Imagine Saint John as the next New Orleans. It's interesting to note that during the fifties public schools were training people what to do in a nuclear attack, yet now most people couldn't tell the first thing to do about a gas leak.
None of these things are critically analyzed in the IRving papers, they are left to the letters section, and often edited out.
There's a reason that no place in the industrial world has built an oil terminal in thirty years, how often is that mentioned. Or that there are huge protests about gas terminals all over the US. When it comes to Irving press all they talk about is money and jobs.
To mention the above, its pretty bad when New Brunswick is going to be known for two things, infringing on people's rights and crazy enough to put all their energy infrastructure in one place.
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There have been numerous letters published in the TJ over the last few days and weeks critizing both the Irving companies, the paper and the relationship between the two.
Thought you might possibly find the Attached News Story interesting Charles, considering what you are going through with Your Trial.
Maybe Saint John, New Brunswick should be added to the list ?
" Reporters Without Borders lists 13 "enemies of the Internet"
Nov 06 2:36 PM US/Eastern
The campaigning group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Monday listed 13 countries it labelled as "enemies of the Internet" ahead of a 24 hour campaign in favour of free access to the web.
The 13 countries are: Saudi Arabia, Belarus, Myanmar, China, North Korea, Cuba, Egypt, Iran, Uzbekistan, Syria, Tunisia, Turkmenistan and Vietnam.
Three countries were removed from RSF's 2005 list -- Libya, the Maldives and Nepal.
However the inclusion of Egypt was because "President Hosni Mubarak is displaying an authoritarianism towards the Internet that is particularly worrying," RSF said -- noting the recent imprisonment of three pro-democracy bloggers.
From Tuesday at 10H00 GMT RSF is asking the public to register on its Internet site in "defense of on-line free expression and the fate of bloggers in repressive countries."
Here's the url for the story :
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/11/06/061106193551.sp4mpb0o.html
Charles,I'm a retired journalist for one of the Major Television Broadcasting companies down here stateside. I'm originally from the province of Ontario before I left Toronto for New York City.
I just thought I'd let you know,
" Several News Agencies, a couple of which just happen to be International Organizations, are watching your trial very closely, and itching to see what the Final Outcome will be."
Yes indeed Blogging is very well respected here in the U.S.A. Blogger's are giving so-called main stream media a Run for their money.
Your current situation was brought to my attention by a reader of your Blog Site.
If found Guilty, be prepared to be Interviewed by a lot of American Press.
Freedom Of The Press For All :
You can't control what is written Charles, you may not like what they wrote, but they are reporting the facts. You didn't sit next to the reporter and did sit in different places, you can't fault them for printing that.
However, I didn't see those articles in the Telegraph, however, objectivity is measured in many ways. There's a big difference in all the articles talk in glowing terms about pipelines and terminals, and then just printing some letters to the editors. I have a feeling that if they announced that they would print every letter condemning the pipeline we'd see a flood.
If you read the article the other day on the gas terminal it was positively nauseating. They were actually talking about the aesthetic beauty of the construction site, it was disgusting. The site is one big giantic mess and they're talking in glowing terms even of that as a dump!
How many stories have you read in the Irving paper about the fact that Boston recently closed their gas terminal citing security concerns?
On the weekend there was another burst gas line, and they quickly blamed the private contractors and said 'well, they gotta be better trained'. So who is going to train them? How many articles have you seen about what training is involved and who is going to supply it, and more importantly, who is going MAKE SURE that these contractors have the training.
Is somebody going to die before they say 'well, I guess we should really make sure people are trained'.
How many articles have you seen about federal inventments in national security. In case people haven't noticed, the US isn't the most popular place, if they haven't noticed, most of the oil and gas from Saint John is going to the states. So if your a terrorist are you going to strike at the country which has massive security or are you going to hit the place they get their energy from yet has virtually no emphasis on security.
Those don't even get into environmental disasters like hurricanes or storms which they say are likely to increase. Imagine Saint John as the next New Orleans. It's interesting to note that during the fifties public schools were training people what to do in a nuclear attack, yet now most people couldn't tell the first thing to do about a gas leak.
None of these things are critically analyzed in the IRving papers, they are left to the letters section, and often edited out.
There's a reason that no place in the industrial world has built an oil terminal in thirty years, how often is that mentioned. Or that there are huge protests about gas terminals all over the US. When it comes to Irving press all they talk about is money and jobs.
To mention the above, its pretty bad when New Brunswick is going to be known for two things, infringing on people's rights and crazy enough to put all their energy infrastructure in one place.
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