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28 Oct 2006 05:25 pm
Rumsfeld Jails a Journalist Without Charges
The AP is fighting back. Money quote:
[Santiago Lyon, the AP's director of photography] said he reviewed [Bilal] Hussein's images and interviewed his colleagues and found nothing to suggest he was doing more than his job in a war zone. The vast majority of images depicts the realities of war, Lyon said, and "may be an inconvenient truth, but a truth nonetheless."
David Zeeck, president of ASNE and executive editor of The News Tribune, of Tacoma, Wash., called Hussein's detention without charges "contrary to American values."
"This is how Saddam Hussein dealt with reporters; he would hold them incommunicado," Zeeck said.
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Excerpt: Yahoo! News - AP seeks action on detained photographer "In interviews, the leaders of APME and the American Society of Newspaper Editors shared frustration with the case of Bilal Hussein and said they would urge the Pentagon to release the...
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