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| THE MEDIA AND SUDAN: |
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WHY SUCH POOR JOURNALISM
The
Sudanese civil war has been fought off and on
since 1955 between the Sudanese government and
rebels in southern Sudan. Since 1983 the war in
the south has been largely conducted by the Sudan
People's Liberation rmy (SPLA) led by John Garang.
(1) Media coverage of Sudan, and the Sudanese
conflict, beset as most conflicts are by considerable
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| DAMIEN LEWIS, SUDAN
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A Case Study in Irresponsible
Television
'Death in the Air' was made in the course of
1999 by British film-maker Damien Lewis. This 27-minute
long programme claimed to be an investigation of
the use of chemical weapons within Sudan by Government
of Sudan Forces. It concluded that it had produced
"compelling" evidence or its assertions. |
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| IRRESPONSIBLE, INACCURATE
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The Washington Post
and Sudan
The Washington Post has published several
articles and editorials regarding Sudan over the
past several weeks. Most recently, on 15 October
2000, it published an editorial entitled 'The Sudan
Sequel', commenting on the Clinton Administration's
frenzied, and ultimately successful, attempts to
deny Sudan a United Nations Security Council seat
during recent elections to that body.
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| QUESTIONABLE SOURCES,
QUESTIONABLE JOURNALISM: |
The Observer and Sudan
In 7 May, The Observer newspaper published
a lengthy article by Julie Flint on the Nuba people,
an amalgam of black African tribes in central Sudan.
Entitled 'Nuba face Destruction' this article was
yet one more example of the all too questionable
and partisan journalism that has characterised much
of the reporting of the Sudanese civil war. |
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| TURNING A BLIND EYE
TO WAR CRIMES: |
The Globe and Mail's Selective
Approach to Human Rights in Sudan
On 17 December 1999, the Globe and Mail published
an article entitled 'My Week on the Cusp of War'.
The article was written by Globe and Mail feature
writer Stephanie Nolen, and appeared following a
one-week visit by Ms Nolen to an area within southern
Sudan controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation
Army (SPLA), a southern Sudanese rebel movement.
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British Media Reporting
of Allegations of Chemical Warfare in Southern Sudan
In August 1999, several British newspapers,
and the BBC, published unconfirmed allegations that
the Sudanese armed forces had used chemical weapons
in attacks on Sudanese rebels in Lainya and Kaya
in southern Sudan. |
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| MISREPORTING SUDAN:
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Linda Slobodian, War Criminals
and Islamophobes
In March 2000 the
Sun Media group of Canadian newspapers published
several articles by Linda Slobodian, with titles
such as 'Slaughter of the Innocents'. Ms Slobodian
has written on Sudanese affairs for several years
for the Calgary Sun. misreporting
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