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News media can take pictures of New Orleans dead

September 10th, 2005
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HOUSTON, Texas (CNN) — Rather than fight a lawsuit by CNN, the federal government abandoned its effort Saturday to prevent the media from reporting on the recovery of the dead in New Orleans.
Joint Task Force Katrina "has no plans to bar, impede or prevent news media from their news gathering and reporting activities in connection […]

Police violence against reporters generates complaint

September 9th, 2005
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Reporters Without Borders/Reporters sans Frontieres is complaining about two incidents in which police allegedly attacked reporters:
Reporter Tim Harper and photographer Lucas Oleniuk of the Canadian Toronto Star daily were the victims of police violence while covering a clash between police and looters. The police threatened them several times at gunpoint and, when they realised Oleniuk […]