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 Friday, May 26, 2006 White House press conference Am enjoying a few brief, though somewhat anonymous, moments of fame after managing to squeeze in a question at last night's White House joint press conference held by George W. Bush and Tony Blair. It got pretty frank responses from both leaders, which afterwards led the news everywhere: http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2006/05/post_22.html. The only person to identify me by name so far (I was a mere "British reporter" on CNN and MSNBC and in today's Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/25/AR2006052501316.html) is my friend "scooper and digger" (ABC's The Note http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=2003338) Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun-Times, whose blog link is above. Lynn called to ask me why I was the only reporter there not wearing a jacket (or "coat", in US parlance), which had me offering my own mea culpa about being a scruffy Brit forgetting the dress code for those East room occasions. In my defence, however, I was wearing a tie. #posted by Toby @ 7:20 PM Friday, May 05, 2006 Make Mugabe History  This week marks World Press Freedom Day. There are some pretty startling statistics. In 2005, Julian Simmonds and I were among 788 journalists arrested around the world; 125 were in jail as of December and 58 were killed in the course of their work. For more details go to www.worldpressfreedomday.org. Read some horrifying case studies, register a protest to some of the countries concerned and remember people like Akbar Ganji (Iran), Hector Maseda Gutierrez (Cuba) and U Win Tin (Burma) in your prayers. #posted by Toby @ 4:21 PM |
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