Latest posts by Rebecca MacKinnon from April, 2006
China: Hu's heckler has done this before
Roland Soong of ESWN digs up a website indicating that Wang Wenyi, the FLG practitioner who heckled Hu Jintao at the White House on Thursday, has a heckling history: a 2001 photo shows her confronting then-President Jiang Zemin in Malta. Roland also translates results of a Hong Kong Oriental Daily...
China: Hao Wu continues to be held without charge
It has now been 52 days. Global Voices Northeast Asia editor, blogger, and filmmaker Hao Wu still has not been charged or given access to a lawyer. We still don't know where he is. (For a collection of articles about his situation please click here.) His sister Nina Wu continues...
MSM Iraq coverage: Bloggers give thumbs down
On Wednesday evening New York Time at the Reuters headquarters in Times Square, bloggers from around the world joined in a live panel debate over whether the media is telling the real story in Iraq. See the Reuters news story summarizing the event here and a blog post about it...
Join us live! Iraq: is the media telling the real story?
Click here to join us for a live discussion about whether the media is covering Iraq objectively. You can watch or listen on a live webcast and join in a live online chat to express your views. Several members of the Global Voices community will be live-blogging the event: Middle...
Asking the Blogosphere: Is the media telling the real story on Iraq?
Is the media telling the truth about Iraq? Do you have an opinion on this issue? How does the nature, quality, and content of media coverage of the Iraq war ultimately impact the lives of people in Iraq, the Middle East and around the planet? In your country, how does the media’s...
