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Santo Domingo.– At least 10 reporters and camera operators were attacked in recent days in the north and east of the country, alarming the two leading media worker unions.

Officers of the Dominican Journalists Guild and the National Press Workers Union (SNTP) said the most recent attacks on reporters and video operators demonstrate severe safety problems for journalists, the local media said.

According to press reports, the unions urged authorities to ensure the safety of media workers. “We will not allow our members to continue being victims of criminals,” SNTP director Fior D`Aliza Taveras stated.

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7 comment(s)
Written by: glomarexplorer, 14 Nov 2009 1:51 AM
From: United States, Fresh Water Paradise-NY Finger Lakes
This is a union initiative I can support.
Written by: CarlosFranco, 14 Nov 2009 1:58 AM
From: United States, Brooklyn

Free media is a tool of Democracy...
Written by: Blutarsky This user is banned, 14 Nov 2009 10:08 AM
From: Dominican Republic, No Spin Zone
abc is a tool and useful idiot of the socialists .....mostly he is just a tool period .....a useless tool at that ....But we still love him dearly the imbecile
Written by: VeronicaDR, 14 Nov 2009 12:11 PM
From: United States
We must protect the media. This is how people get their information. In most countries you read the news and most often know the truth to the story. When you read Dominican news you must decipher the information carefully because most of the sources quoted are lying corrupt government officials but at least you know something took place. You then have to decipher the lying and corruption and see who is responsible. Without our news media our corrupt officials would not even let us know that things are going on. Better to know something took place and sort out the truth yourself and not even know like in places like Cuba where any sort of freedom is out the window.
Written by: antonio1, 14 Nov 2009 6:57 PM
From: Dominican Republic, Av Santa Rosa, La Romana
Can the media be corrupt? can a reporter be pay to report a news? How does the media police itself?
Written by: glomarexplorer, 14 Nov 2009 7:16 PM
From: United States, Fresh Water Paradise-NY Finger Lakes

Antonio,

I do believe that much of media is controlled in DR, save for Nuria and a couple of other courageous ones. Problem is that "rule of law" is an alien term in DR, and everything is controlled by the president and the armed forces, which enjoy a marriage of convenience.

On paper, you might have all kinds of rights, but you know that those in power are good magicians and could make you disappear any time and with total impunity!

We have some brave journalists, whom we most protect with our lives and blood at all cost, for they are the only buffer between truth and lies in our corner of the world. Their right to speak, the ink in their pens, must never be interfered with or allowed to run dry.

Long live Nuria and her kind. May she inspire many others to do likewise! And may we resolve to afford them the protection they must have. This is really where you get to enforce your professed patriotism. Don't forget!!!!
Written by: josean, 15 Nov 2009 12:39 PM
From: United States, Dedicating 4 more years to fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia
LIE-onel Fernandez. where is your professor NARCISO GONZÁLEZ?

http://www.cidh.org/annualrep/97eng/dom.rep.11324.htm
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