Re: Re: Reporter’s death fuels fear for Russia media freedom
On Oct 9, 2006, at 12:52 PM, Michael Givel wrote:
Actually, from January 1, 1992—August 15, 2006, see: http:// www.cpj.org/killed/killed_archives/stats.html, there were 42
journalists murdered in Russia. According to the Committee to
Protect Journalists from 1992 to 1999 28 were killed in Russia
from the following confirmed sources below.
How many of those made the front page of the NYT? I don’t remember
any. Yeltsin committed massive vote fraud, and the NYT wrote not a
word. In fact, someone from the Times told me “there was no story
there.” But Yeltsin was a pliable guy. Putin is not. Therefore he is
bad.
Doug