A filmmaker’s raw footage is much like a photographer’s unedited images or a reporter’s notebooks—a private record of their reporting that is rarely disclosed to others. That is until a federal judge ruled otherwise.
The bloodshed woven through the fabric of Guatemalan society remains a rarely told story. One reason for the ongoing lack of attention is the impunity that has continues to plague the nation.
The accusations against the journalist came after Hollman Morris briefly interviewed four hostages–three police officers and one soldier–shortly before they were released by the FARC.
Irregularities in the Oakland police investigation into the murder of one of the Bay area’s most respected community journalist, Chauncy Bailey, have been called out by Bay-area colleagues.
Rep. Betty McCollum told constituents she was visiting a cemetery of U.S. war dead in Tunisia. But state-run Tunisia media reported she met with the foreign minister of the dictator Zine el Abidine Ben Ali.
The newsman was hard to forget. He carried a handheld camera to record interviews. While on the cell phone, he scribbled notes on yellow Post-its, sticking them one by one up his arm.
Rep. Jerry Weller in Illinois owns several pieces of property in Nicaragua, some of which he’s disclosed to Congress as required by its rules—and some of which he apparently hasn’t.
