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Jan 23 2009 4:04 PM

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Friday Links: "Bloodless War Journalism"

By Stan Alcorn

A journalist in Sri Lanka writes that if Westerners saw a newspaper editor's murder as a symbol of press freedom, Sri Lankans saw him as "no less than a fallen warrior."

An American student in Syria writes an essay on how, politics aside, Al Jazeera's graphic Gaza coverage is a stinging rebuke to the "bloodless war journalism" in the United States.

And the Frontline Club's blog carries the trailer for Burma VJ, a documentary on Burmese reporters who risked their lives covering the failed revolution in September 2007.

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Stan Alcorn

  • Stan Alcorn directs multimedia content and special projects for the Dart Center's website. He has written, edited and shot video for venues including the Orange County Register, The Nation Magazine and Marketplace as well as independently for Danger Documentaries.

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