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| csua.org/u/ex5 -> www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001958360 REPRINTS Newspaper Story on Soldier Forced to Pay for Body Armor Sparks Fundraising By E&P Staff Published: February 07, 2006 12:40 PM ET NEW YORK It may have been a case of financial insult added to injury. William "Eddie" Rebrook IV, had recently paid a bill for $700 for lost body armor he used in Iraq -- which was purportedly pulled off his body after he suffered severe wounds in a roadside bombing one year ago. The last time he saw the body armor "he was lying on a stretcher in Iraq, his arm shattered," the article explained. Rebrook, 25, left the Army for good because of his injuries. Apparently there was no record that the body armor had been stripped from him in battle, he said. He "scrounged up the cash from his Army buddies and returned home to Charleston last Friday," the Gazette related. His mother, Beckie Drumheler, "said she was saddened -- and angry -- when she learned that the Army discharged her son with a $700 bill. Soldiers who serve their country, those who put their lives on the line, deserve better, she said. He served six months in Iraq, according to the newspaper. The story, by reporter Eric Eyre, does not include confirmation or comment from the military. com/ "We liberal folk may disagree with the Bush administration over the reasons for going to war and over how they're fighting this war," he declared, "but one thing you'd expect no disagreement over would be the treatment of our soldiers. They fight for their country and they deserve some respect in return. And that means not charging them for their body armor because someone blew them up on the battlefield." Aravosis later reported receiving $4400 in donations from 187 people in the first two hours. World of Film Reviews Changed By Internet Once upon a time, you checked your local newspaper's film critic for advice about what to see on any given weekend. Today, more than 90% of the target moviegoer demographic ages 13-34 go online to get their movie information. Chinese Editor Dies After Cop Beating Up to eight police beat and kicked Wu Xianghu, before hurling him out of his office and bundling him into a police car. A journalist at Taizhou Wanbao, the paper where Wu was deputy editor, said that newspaper staff had been warned against discussing the incident with outsiders. Alt Weekly Columnist Compares Criagslist to Wal-Mart Tim Redmond of the San Francisco Bay Guardian says about Craigslist founder Craig Newmark: "In many ways, he's like a Wal-Mart -- yeah, landlords get cheaper real estate ads, and consumers find some bargains, but the money all goes out of town. And he puts nothing back into the community: He doesn't, for example, hire reporters or serve as a community watchdog." Search Engines Challenged On 'Theft' A group of newspaper, magazine and book publishers is accusing Google and other aggregators of online news stories of unfairly exploiting their content. |
| www.editorandpublisher.com -> www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/index.jsp Joint Chiefs Fail to Protest Luckovich Cartoon--As Toles Offers New Comment The Joint Chiefs of Staff sent The Washington Post a letter last week saying it was "tasteless" of Tom Toles to show a severely injured soldier in his Jan. Toles, meanwhile, produced a new cartoon today that seems to comment on the Joint Chiefs protest. Carroll Kidnapping Reaches One-Month Mark With No Word On Her Fate It's been one month since freelance reporter Jill Carroll's Baghdad abduction and her fate remains unknown. "We continue to explore every avenue that we can think of," said David Cook, the Monitor's Washington bureau chief and lead spokesman for the paper on the Carroll search. "We are working closely with her family and exploring every option." Muslims Picket 'Philadephia Inquirer' After It Runs Cartoon On Saturday, the Inquirer became one of the first major US papers to carry a drawing featuring Muhammad -- with a lit bomb stuck in his turban -- that have sparked riots abroad. On Monday, more than two dozen Muslims offended by that decision picketed the newspaper and threatened a boycott, but the paper defended its decision. Meanwhile, 'Doonesbury" creator Garry Trudeau said he would not be doing any drawings of Muhammad--or Jesus. Jeffrey Gilkey Appointed Sales Recruitment Manager for Landmark Community Newspapers Inc. Jeffrey Gilkey has been named sales recruitment manager for Landmark Community Newspapers Inc. Gilkey most recently served as new business development manager for The Courier-Journal in Louisville, Ky. Mitch Stacy Named Correspondent in Charge of the AP's Tampa Bureau Mitch Stacy has been named correspondent in charge of The Associated Press' Tampa bureau. Stacy most recently served as a reporter for the AP in Tampa. No Jews Need Apply Former Wall Street Journal reporter Laurel Leff, now a professor at Northeastern University's School of Journalism, has uncovered the shameful and forgotten history of how journalism schools, newspaper associations, and newspapers largely shunned German Jews seeking refuge from Nazi persecution. What's Missing in 'NY Times' Coverage of Sex Harrassment Case? A Times hockey writer allegedly plays a role in a high-profile lawsuit, as revealed by another New York daily this week. Why has the Times reported on the case -- but not mentioned its own employee's relation to it? A 'Window' Into Challenges Faced By Gay Papers While hardly the "bloodbath" imagined by some bloggers, the top-level shakeup at Window Media spotlights the difficulty of creating a nationwide gay newspaper chain. While numbers-crunchers from New York to San Jose gauge the value of Knight Ridder and the guessing game about would-be buyers continues with more urgency, editors and reporters at the newspaper chain's daily publications are forced to stay focused while their futures remain essentially unknown. Simon O'Dwyer/The Age (Melbourne, Australia) Firefighters watch clouds of smoke billow over a destroyed house during bushfires in the Australian state of Victoria. Bushfires raging across four Australian states are expected to intensify with more sweltering heat expected later this week. World of Film Reviews Changed By Internet Once upon a time, you checked your local newspaper's film critic for advice about what to see on any given weekend. Today, more than 90% of the target moviegoer demographic ages 13-34 go online to get their movie information. Chinese Editor Dies After Cop Beating Up to eight police beat and kicked Wu Xianghu, before hurling him out of his office and bundling him into a police car. A journalist at Taizhou Wanbao, the paper where Wu was deputy editor, said that newspaper staff had been warned against discussing the incident with outsiders. Alt Weekly Columnist Compares Criagslist to Wal-Mart Tim Redmond of the San Francisco Bay Guardian says about Craigslist founder Craig Newmark: "In many ways, he's like a Wal-Mart -- yeah, landlords get cheaper real estate ads, and consumers find some bargains, but the money all goes out of town. And he puts nothing back into the community: He doesn't, for example, hire reporters or serve as a community watchdog." Search Engines Challenged On 'Theft' A group of newspaper, magazine and book publishers is accusing Google and other aggregators of online news stories of unfairly exploiting their content. |