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Wednesday, January 30

A test for determining true journalistic 'prophets'

by billdoskoch on Wed 30 Jan 2008 10:21 PM EST

Friday will mark the sixth anniversary of the savage beheading of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl by Islamist extremists in Pakistan.

His father Judea Pearl offers these thoughts on journalism in a Wall Street Journal commentary:

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'He could not hide his fear'

by billdoskoch on Wed 30 Jan 2008 03:23 PM EST

Journalist Sayed Yacoub Ibrahimi writes a first-person story about his brother, Sayed Parwez Kaambakhsh, sentenced to death by a court in northern Afghanistan for blasphemy.

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Afghan senate approves of journalist's death sentence -- for blasphemy

by billdoskoch on Wed 30 Jan 2008 05:28 AM EST

From the BBC:

The upper house of the Afghan parliament has supported a death sentence issued against a journalist for blasphemy in northern Afghanistan.

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