{"id":216,"date":"2007-02-06T06:03:52","date_gmt":"2007-02-05T21:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wombathole.com\/dili-gence\/?p=216"},"modified":"2007-02-06T06:03:52","modified_gmt":"2007-02-05T21:03:52","slug":"press-freedom-a-la-rsforg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/?p=216","title":{"rendered":"Press freedom a la rsf.org"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reporters Without Borders (AKA Reporters sans frontiere) at http:\/\/www.rsf.org<\/a> have published their 2006 Annual Report on press freedom around the world.<\/p>\n

As the TL report is short, I will reprint it here (and hope I don’t get my freedom to re-publish it infringed)<\/p>\n

East-Timor – Annual report 2007<\/strong><\/p>\n

Riots and political tension did not make the job of the press any easier. Several publications were threatened by supporters or opponents of the former prime minister, Mari Alkatiri. Despite this violence, the young country continues to enjoy a favourable atmosphere for press freedom.<\/p>\n

A military rebellion against the government triggered a serious deterioration in working conditions for journalists from May 2006. Several publications had to work in secret for fear of reprisals. The Timor Post<\/em> and Suara Timor Lorosae<\/em> had to halt publication for several days under pressure from supporters of Mari Alkatiri, who was forced to resign at the end of June. The former head of government had openly criticised and called for a boycott of independent media like Suara Timor Lorosae<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Journalists were physically attacked on several occasions. On 10 June, an Associated Press reporter was manhandled and briefly detained by Australian peace-keeping soldiers. On 12 June, a gang of youths stoned journalists from the Timor Post<\/em>. Political militants ransacked the offices of the leading radio and television channel TVTL<\/em> in Dili on 29 June demanding the suspension of news programmes. Finally, on 9 November an Agence France-Presse<\/em> correspondent was hit in the face by a stone thrown by a demonstrator.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

As for me, I am not press and apart from a couple of ranters last year accusing me of being a patsy for the Australian presence here, I have received no heavying. In the interests of open-ness, yes I did delete their rants. I am the author, this is my blog, no-one pays me to do this – so there !<\/p>\n

Actually I do not have a lot of sympathy for some reporters who were here in May\/June\/July last year. They only came to see blood, fire and rampaging and then were gone. They were racing around trying to go anywhere to see some of this. When I saw one TV reporter doing a story while walking amongst a group of running youths, I can easily see how a security force would get cheesed off with this.<\/p>\n

Oops, there goes the media career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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