Re: [Marxism] William Blum correspondence with The Committee to Protect Journalists

["Wayne S. Rossi" <felianan@xxxxxxxxx>]

William Blum writes:

> The Committee to Protect Journalists, located in New York, calls
> itself "An Independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to defending
> press freedom worldwide". In December it issued a report that said
> that "China, Cuba, Eritrea, and Ethiopia are the world's leading
> jailers of journalists in 2005".
...
> Incidentally, it might also be noted that amongst America's prison
> population of more than two million, there are probably at least a
> few hundred who have practiced journalism at one time or other, in
> one manner or other.

Aside from the fact that Blum (who is a very sharp anti-imperialist
thinker; I interviewed him for the Feb. issue of *Socialist Action*) is
spot on here as elsewhere, a cursory search for "Mumia Abu Jamal" on
the site returns nothing.  Apparently Mumia, the single highest profile
political prisoner in the United States and a distinguished journalist
before his imprisonment, counts for absolutely nothing to these people.

So apparently these people should be lumped in with "Reporters contre
Castro" (not to insult Médecins sans frontières) as only defending
the civil rights of anticommunist reporters outside of the USA.

- Wayne

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