by jpitney | Mar 24, 2022 | Bipartisanship, Congress, Journalism, Journalists, Russia, Ukraine
A March 16 release from Rep. Ashley Hinson: Today, Representatives Cheri Bustos (IL-17) and Ashley Hinson (IA-01), both former journalists, introduced a bipartisan resolution honoring the journalists, reporters, and documentarians risking their safety and sacrificing...
by jpitney | Mar 22, 2022 | Deliberation, Russia, Ukraine
At PolitiFact, Angie Drobnic Holan explains what Governor Schwarzenegger did write in his message to the Russian people. Start in a friendly way. Schwarzenegger doesn’t address the hardest thing first. On the contrary, he begins the video by thanking “my dear...
by jpitney | Mar 21, 2022 | Russia, Ukraine
President Reagan’s 1987 Captive Nations proclamation: For nearly three decades Captive Nations Week has symbolized the American people’s solidarity with all throughout the world who courageously seek freedom and independence from Soviet domination. During...
by jpitney | Mar 16, 2022 | Journalism, Journalists, Russia, Ukraine
Oliver Darcy and Brian Stelter, CNN Business: Monday attack on a Fox News crew reporting near the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv left two of the network’s journalists dead and its correspondent severely injured, the channel said on Tuesday. Killed in the attack were...
by jpitney | Mar 13, 2022 | Journalism, Journalists, Russia, Ukraine
From The Independent: Brent Renaud, an award-winning US filmmaker and former contributor to The New York Times, was fatally shot by Russian forces in Irpin, close to Kyiv, according to officials in Ukraine. The Peabody Award-winning documentary filmmaker, working...
by jpitney | Mar 12, 2022 | Russia, Ukraine
Nic Robertson at CNN: I leave Moscow angry and sad. It feels like a passage out of darkness to light, but left behind are friends trapped in one man’s tunnel vision. Russian President Vladimir Putin isn’t just destroying Ukraine, but two nations,...
