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Hi, Its been a week, since the last update on The Great Editorial Robbery. In that period, Herald has had a few, but finally a few original editorials of late. But the plagiarised ones are now smartly camouflaged as you may notice later in this posting. Unfortunately, the river has forked into two tributaries. Both equally muddy. news articles too are now being lifted from news agencies like IANS and foreign newspaper with consistency etc. I had asked a journalist working at the Herald, as to whether Herald subscribes to IANS services to which he replied in negative. A story which had appeared in THE NAVHIND TIMES, credited to the IANS was published in the Herald. The website does not credit the news agency with the story and neither the THE NAVHIND TIMES. Another article which has appeared in the International Herald Tribune by Philip Bowring has also been reproduced in the Herald with minor changes. An editorial in the Herald RACISM EXISTS has been largely plagiarised from an NBC article on allegations by victims of the Katrina tragedy. Chunks from the NBC article have been reproduced in the Herald edit, with very subtle changes to stave off chances of tracking the theft down. The subtle changes are marked by slashes, while the plagiarised pieces have been slotted between extended hyphen lines. Bhushan NAVHIND TIMES http://www.navhindtimes.com/stories.php?part=news&Story_ID=112510 Local polls in Pakistan deeply flawed: ICG IANS Brussels Nov 24: The International Crisis Group (ICG) here -----------------has described the local elections in Pakistan as deeply flawed and marred by serious violence.------------------- //////////////////In a report the ICG/////////////////// -------------------called on the United States and other governments to withdraw their support to the military regime unless it initiated genuine steps to restore civilian rule.-------------- --------------------Titled Pakistans Local Polls: Shoring up Military Rule, the report sought to------------- ----------------------demonstrate how Pakistani President, General Pervez Musharrafs efforts to maintain military control over politics had made Pakistan more prone to violence, according to INEP agency. ------------- The military regime distorted its own devolution plan through the manipulated polls in order to ensure that its supporters won, to weaken further the mainstream opposition parties and to set the stage for maintaining control of parliament and the presidency in 2007 and beyond, said Mr Samina Ahmed, the ICGs South Asia project director. By doing so, it only increased the political space for extremist jehadi organisations.---------------------------- --------------The report ////////////////alleged /////////////that Pakistans military government had rigged the local elections in August and October 2005 to ///////////////further weaken /////////////////mainstream opposition parties, and to lay the ground for its supporters to dominate forthcoming parliamentary elections.------------- --------------------------The ICG report /////////////// alleged ////////////////// that the local elections were primarily held to ensure the survival of ////////////// General /////////////// Musharrafs regime as it entered its sixth year. At least 60 people reportedly died and more than 500 were injured during the elections--------------------------- http://oheraldo.in/node/7149 HERALD General Musharraf to restore civilian rule A report released recently by the Brussels-based think-tank the International Crisis Group (ICG) ------------------described the recent local elections in Pakistan as deeply flawed and marred by serious violence and -----------------------called on the US and other governments to withdraw their support to the regime unless it takes genuine steps to restore civilian rule.---------------------- ---------------------Titled Pakistans Local Polls: Shoring up Military Rule, ///////////////////////the report ////////////////////// ---------------------demonstrates how President Pervez Musharrafs efforts to maintain military control over politics make Pakistan more prone to violence. ---------- ------------------The military regime distorted its own devolution plan through the manipulated polls in order to ensure that its supporters won, to weaken further the mainstream opposition parties, and to set the stage for maintaining control of parliament and the presidency in 2007 and beyond, said Samina Ahmed, the ICGs South Asia Project Director. By doing so, it only increased the political space for extremist Jihadi organizations. ------------------------------ -----------------------The report ////////////////highlighted //////////////////the fact that Pakistans military government rigged the local elections in August and October 2005 to ///////////////weaken further ////////////////// the mainstream opposition parties and lay the ground for its supporters to dominate forthcoming parliamentary elections----------------. ---------------------The ICG report //////////////argued ///////////////// that the local elections were primarily held to ensure the survival of /////////////// President /////////////// Musharrafs regime as it entered its sixth year. At least 60 people died and more than 500 were injured during the local elections.------------------- http://oheraldo.in/node/7326 Racism exists Its official. Survivors of Americas worst natural disaster Hurricane Katrina have told a Congressional enquiry ------------that racism contributed to the slow disaster response.---------------- While many survivors have compared the response to the genocide and the Holocaust, there is no denying that judging by what was witnessed on television, the American authorities did respond in a very slow manner to the victims. And if one compares the response to what happened just minutes after September 11, it is not surprising that such comparisons are being made. No doubt September 11 was horrific and dastardly and the scale of the attack took everyones breath away but destruction is destruction and human suffering is human suffering. Guranteed comparison with mass murder such as the Holocaust is unthinkable but for a country like America which boasts of military prowess and alertness which can reach any trouble spot in the world within hours. But what happened in Florida was something unthinkable as relief crews did not move in for days and people were left to die on the streets. People -------------------- died of abject neglect and reports are emerging how angry evacuees described being trapped in temporary shelters where one New Orleans resident said she was one sunrise from being consumed by maggots and flies. /////////////////Other survivors claim //////////////////// --------------- that military troops focused machine gun laser targets on their ///////chidlrens////// forehead ---------------- and /////////////////many were called racial epithets by police and can be corrobated by the fact that the only people left behind were the blacks.----------------- http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10354221/ Katrina victims blame racism for slow aid Emotions flare as black survivors testify before special House panel NBC News and news services Updated: 7:31 p.m. ET Dec. 6, 2005 WASHINGTON - Black survivors of Hurricane Katrina said Tuesday ---------- that racism contributed to the slow disaster response-----------------, at times likening themselves in emotional congressional testimony to victims of genocide and the Holocaust. The comparison is inappropriate, according to Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla. Not a single person was marched into a gas chamber and killed, Miller told the survivors. --------------They died from abject neglect, retorted community activist Leah Hodges. We left body bags behind... The people of New Orleans were stranded in a flood and were allowed to die. ---------------Angry evacuees described being trapped in temporary shelters where one New Orleans resident said she was one sunrise from being consumed by maggots and flies. -------------- ///////////////Another woman said//////////////// ------------------- military troops focused machine gun laser targets on her ///////////////granddaughters//////////////// forehead. //////////////// Others said their families were called racial epithets by police.//////////// CONTD . NBC News Kerry Sanders and the Associated Press contributed to this report. http://oheraldo.in/node/7150 Nonaligned nonstarter By Philip Bowring I thought it had died years ago. But there it was, 30 years on, making a re-appearance last week under the auspices of the normally sensible prime minister of Malaysia, Abdullah Badawi: a proposal for a Non-aligned News Network.Back in 1975 when NAM (the non-aligned movement) was still a set of initials to be reckoned with, it came forth with the idea of a non-aligned news pool, to present the world through the eyes of Third World journalists to counterbalance the political bias and cultural prejudice of the Western wires and syndicated news services. Those were idealistic days and many a talented Asian journalist joined the bandwagon. Newly independent and developing countries generally were not big enough or rich enough to have their own international news networks, so why not band together and provide their own news to each rather than read the Western accounts of how backward, undemocratic or just weird they all were? It was a natural extension of de-colonization. The Western media did ignore large tracts of the world, or covered them only when some disaster struck or Western interests there were in some ways affected. Bias was rife and the media naturally catered in the first place to the news interests of their Western clients rather than those of the developing countries which had no alternative sources of international news. Unfortunately, the idealism foundered on the rocks of reality and cynicism. It spawned a concept known as development journalism, a kind of good news journalism focused on progress, not disasters, and development rather than political issues. This sounded nice and the advocates were able to raise money from the United Nations and elsewhere to further the cause. Less admirably, authoritarian governments latched on to development journalism as a way of diverting attention from politics and a free press which obstructed development. The Marcos regime in the Philippines was particularly supportive. The NAM also spawned a non-aligned news agency pool in 1975 under the leadership of Yugoslavias Tanjug and including the likes of Malaysias government-controlled Bernama news agency. This was to be the news part of the New International Economic Order. The reality was that Yugoslavs were no more interested in Malaysia than Malaysia in Yugoslavia, and both were more interested in the United States. No national agency had the capacity or competence to match the coverage of major events provided by the developed country agencies. Worst of all, the enthusiasts for the NAM venture were mostly states with little media freedom. Fast forward to today. The Western media is often as prejudiced as ever, its focus on a few issues and nations. Its bias is often glaring, especially in its coverage of the Muslim world. But the new NAM network proposed at a conference in Kuala Lumpur last week is no more the answer now than it was in 1975. Unsurprisingly, among the loudest voices supporting it last week were ministers from Myanmar, Sudan and Syria, the countries whose news supply is least likely to find takers elsewhere. Malaysia, which has put itself forward to spearhead the new NAM news, has a freer media than several of its ASEAN neighbors, but it still fails to reflect the levels of education of its population or the competence of its journalists. The bottom line is that to be acceptable internationally, there must be some consistent proof of independence from sponsor governments. The difficultly of that is demonstrated by one example, the Asia News Network, which provides a Web link to major Asian English-language papers. It is a useful tool but not credible as an entity because its participants range from lively, independent papers in India, Thailand and Indonesia to government mouthpieces of China, Vietnam and Singapore, where officials boast of not having an independent press. If the proposed organization were to be an independent agency funded by NAM and staffed by top journalists from NAM members, well and good. But it will not be. It will be just another way of recycling propaganda from state controlled entities. http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/11/23/opinion/edbowring.php Nonaligned nonstarter Philip Bowring WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2005 INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE HONG KONG I thought it had died years ago. But there it was, 30 years on, making a re-appearance last week under the auspices of the normally sensible prime minister of Malaysia, Abdullah Badawi: a proposal for a Non-aligned News Network. Back in 1975 when NAM (the non-aligned movement) was still a set of initials to be reckoned with, it came forth with the idea of a non-aligned news pool, to present the world through the eyes of Third World journalists to counterbalance the political bias and cultural prejudice of the Western wires and syndicated news services. Those were idealistic days and many a talented Asian journalist joined the bandwagon. Newly independent and developing countries generally were not big enough or rich enough to have their own international news networks, so why not band together and provide their own news to each rather than read the Western accounts of how backward, undemocratic or just weird they all were? It was a natural extension of de-colonization. The Western media did ignore large tracts of the world, or covered them only when some disaster struck or Western interests there were in some ways affected. Bias was rife and the media naturally catered in the first place to the news interests of their Western clients rather than those of the developing countries which had no alternative sources of international news. Unfortunately, the idealism foundered on the rocks of reality and cynicism. It spawned a concept known as "development journalism," a kind of "good news" journalism focused on progress, not disasters, and "development" rather than political issues. This sounded nice and the advocates were able to raise money from the United Nations and elsewhere to further the cause. Less admirably, authoritarian governments latched on to development journalism as a way of diverting attention from politics and a free press which "obstructed development." The Marcos regime in the Philippines was particularly supportive. The NAM also spawned a "non-aligned news agency pool" in 1975 under the leadership of Yugoslavia's Tanjug and including the likes of Malaysia's government-controlled Bernama news agency. This was to be the news part of the New International Economic Order. The reality was that Yugoslavs were no more interested in Malaysia than Malaysia in Yugoslavia, and both were more interested in the United States. No national agency had the capacity or competence to match the coverage of major events provided by the developed country agencies. Worst of all, the enthusiasts for the NAM venture were mostly states with little media freedom. Fast forward to today. The Western media is often as prejudiced as ever, its focus on a few issues and nations. Its bias is often glaring, especially in its coverage of the Muslim world. But the new NAM network proposed at a conference in Kuala Lumpur last week is no more the answer now than it was in 1975. Unsurprisingly, among the loudest voices supporting it last week were ministers from Myanmar, Sudan and Syria, the countries whose news supply is least likely to find takers elsewhere. Malaysia, which has put itself forward to spearhead the new NAM news, has a freer media than several of its ASEAN neighbors, but it still fails to reflect the levels of education of its population or the competence of its journalists. The bottom line is that to be acceptable internationally, there must be some consistent proof of independence from sponsor governments. The difficultly of that is demonstrated by one example, the Asia News Network, which provides a Web link to major Asian English-language papers. It is a useful tool but not credible as an entity because its participants range from lively, independent papers in India, Thailand and Indonesia to government mouthpieces of China, Vietnam and Singapore, where officials boast of not having an independent press. If the proposed organization were to be an independent agency funded by NAM and staffed by top journalists from NAM members, well and good. But it will not be. It will be just another way of recycling propaganda from state controlled entities. What a pity. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- * G * O * A * N * E * T *** C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Spread the Christmas cheer - even when you're not here! Send Christmas Greetings to your loved ones in Goa. 2005 Christmas Package - Flowers, Bubbles and Layers of Love. http://www.goa-world.com/expressions/xmas/ -----------------------------------------------------------------------