News headlines for “Mainstream Media”, page 139
SOUTH AFRICA: Playing Football for Hope
- Inter Press Service
Sixteen-year-old Neo Malema and his brothers and sister live with his grandmother in the impoverished Alexandra Township in Johannesburg. Despite his poor background, Malema dreams of one day playing football for the country’s national squad, Bafana Bafana.
RIGHTS-PERU: Alleged Letter-Bomb Killer Faces Justice
- Inter Press Service
The arrest in Peru of a former Army Intelligence Service (SIE) agent, retired Captain Víctor Penas, may clear up the murder of journalist Melissa Alfaro, and the mutilation of human rights defender Augusto Zúñiga, both victims of letter-bombs in 1991.
CHILE: A Newspaper Of and For 'the Voiceless'
- Inter Press Service
Diario Uno, a newspaper with an innovative business model put out by a group of journalists and academics, went on sale Sunday in Chile, promising to provide a voice for those who do not feel represented by the country's economic model nor by the mainstream media.
PHILIPPINES: Presidential Bets Perform To Woo Voters: Lynette Lee Corporal* — Asia Media Forum
- Inter Press Service
Often described as too square and boring, Philippine presidential candidate Benigno Aquino III reaches out to the music-television generation as a smiling, hip-hop rapper in his television advertisement.
HUMAN RIGHTS: UN Complains of Scant Progress by Mexico
- Inter Press Service
Mexico has failed to make significant progress on human rights issues like violence against women, abuses by military troops involved in policing work, and attacks on journalists, the United Nations Human Rights Committee stated Friday.
ARGENTINA: Football Violence Flares Up Ahead of World Cup
- Inter Press Service
'Your president is willing to confront the wildest hordes of opponents, but not a football fan, ever,' Argentine President Cristina Fernández once joked.
ARTS-SOUTHERN AFRICA: Women Dancers Can Fill Granaries
- Inter Press Service
'Some said, how can women dancers tell us about climate change? Some said, how can dancers talk about planting trees? Others asked, how can women dancers build schools? But now the government says a drum has managed to fill our granaries, a dancer has managed to build schools.'
MEDIA: Journalists Increasingly at Risk Says UN Report
- Inter Press Service
A record 77 journalists were killed last year, making 2009 one of the most dangerous years for media workers, according to a report published Thursday by UNESCO, the United Nations’ cultural agency.
ARGENTINA: Homemade Portraits of Life Behind Bars
- Inter Press Service
'I wanted to take a self-portrait, and I thought about keeping a straight face, but it came out all weird, with these very long arms,' says Liliana Cabrera about the photo she took with a camera she made herself, out of a condensed milk tin, at a workshop in an Argentine prison.
RIGHTS-AUSTRALIA: Indigenous Groups Still Say No to Gov’t ‘Help’
- Inter Press Service
'We don’t want to have any part of this. We want to move out of it so we have a bit of freedom and be able to determine our own future,' says Richard Downs, an elder of the Alyawarra people of central Australia.
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