Guantanamo media

On Sunday, just two days after the Supreme Court’s momentous ruling that the prisoners at Guantánamo have constitutional habeas corpus rights — and as John McCain started a right-wing backlash by declaring, with Cheney-like hyperbole, that it was “one of the worst decisions in the history of this country” — McClatchy Newspapers, whose 31 titles [...]

On Monday June 9, the Frontline Club, the excellent journalists’ club in west London, is screening Taxi to the Dark Side, Alex Gibney’s Academy Award-winning documentary about the “War on Terror,” which tackles the post-9/11 flight from domestic and international law — and the endorsement of torture as official policy from Guantánamo to Abu Ghraib [...]

Massive Attack, the acclaimed and uncompromising Bristol-based musicians, who are curating Meltdown 2008 at London’s Southbank Centre from June 14 to 22, have added some potent politics to their programming by inviting legal action charity Reprieve, which works on behalf of prisoners in Guantánamo and US secret prisons, and Britons facing the death penalty around [...]

In a genuinely impressive demonstration of frontline politics seeping into the frocks, gossip and backslapping of the Oscars, “Taxi to the Dark Side,” Alex Gibney’s chilling and compelling documentary about American torture, which focuses on the murder by US personnel of an innocent taxi driver named Dilawar in the US prison at Bagram airbase in [...]

Following its expressions of concern (here and here) about the Editor’s Note that followed the publication of a front-page article in the New York Times last week by Carlotta Gall and myself, Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) sent the following letter to the Times’ public editor:
A double standard on reporters who express opinions?
Letter to [...]