IPS Inter Press Service - Media, Technology & CommunicationsThere is more to progress than economic growth. The true goals of development are human freedoms and rights, including the right to information and knowledge.RIGHTS: Torture Widely Viewed as "Immoral"- (Found June 29, 2008 ) UNITED NATIONS, Jun 24 (IPS) - A new poll on the official use of torture shows that people worldwide oppose it, but more than one-third also say an exception should be made if it can extract information from "terrorists" to "save innocent lives".http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42950 LEBANON: Newsrooms Fall Prey to Seven Deadly Sins- (Found June 29, 2008 ) BEIRUT, Jun 18 (IPS) - Prejudiced reporting is not uncommon anywhere, but in Lebanon the level of news distortion has taken on a new dimension as a result of assassinations, physical threats, political pressure, biased reporting, lack of professionalism, rampant corruption and self-censorship. These are the seven deadly sins that have increasingly been plaguing the Lebanese media over the years.http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42855 POLITICS: Bush Inspires Least Confidence as World Leader- (Found June 29, 2008 ) WASHINGTON, Jun 16 (IPS) - While historians here debate whether George W. Bush has been the worst president in U.S. history, a global consensus that he inspires the least confidence of all the world's major leaders appears to have emerged.http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42828 POLITICS-US: Global Image Buoyed by Prospect of Change- (Found June 29, 2008 ) WASHINGTON, Jun 12 (IPS) - After a virtually relentless fall during the seven-year reign of President George W. Bush, Washington's image abroad rebounded modestly in 2007, according to the latest edition of the annual Pew Global Attitudes Project survey of 24 countries released here Thursday.http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42777 MEXICO: Murder of Indigenous Reporters Fuels Hatred, Division- (Found June 29, 2008 ) MEXICO CITY, Jun 11 (IPS) - No one has been brought to justice for the murders of two young indigenous reporters in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca in April, a case that has mobilised social activists and drawn condemnation from UNESCO.http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42752 WOMEN-MEDIA: Stuck at the Starting Gate- (Found June 29, 2008 ) ROME, Jun 9 (IPS) - "We should not be all that surprised that we are stalled," says Jane Ransom, executive director of the International Women&39;s Media Foundation (IWMF), referring to the absence of women leaders in media organisations.http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42717 MEDIA-SINGAPORE: Restrictions Follow Critics to Cyberspace- (Found June 29, 2008 ) SINGAPORE, Jun 7 (IPS) - When Lee Hsien Loong became Singapores prime minister after his father, Lee Kuan Yew, four years ago, he encouraged citizens to "feel free to express diverse views, pursue unconventional ideas, or simply be different". Today, these hopes for a city-state that can be more relaxed about criticism and more open to frank debate appear to have been too high.http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42703 |