Brazil agrees to compensate family of journalist killed during dictatorship 50 years ago
SAO PAULO — Brazil's government on Thursday signed a landmark agreement accepting responsibility for the killing of Vladimir Herzog, a prominent journalist and political prisoner whom the military dictatorship falsely claimed had killed himself while in custody 50 years ago.
Herzog's family celebrated the official admission of liability, which involved the government agreeing to pay them compensation.
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DAVID MARCUS: How jailing deep-state leakers could be good for journalism
In the hours after the American strike on Iran's Fardow nuclear facility, CNN's Natasha Bertrand got what would once have been the scoop of a lifetime, a leaked report showing little damage had been done. But it turns out that it is now all but certain that Bertrand and CNN were manipulated by political actors. In the days since, everyone from the International Atomic Energy Agency, the Israeli government, the Central Intelligence Agency, to President Trump himself have all assessed that far more damage was done than the initial "low confidence" leaked report indicated. The incident underscores a serious problem for journalism: The instant credulity which the liberal media gives to any leaker with information harmful to President Trump is leaving the American citizen badly misinformed. We all owe a debt to the leaker who acts selflessly and altruistically to reveal important information the government is hiding. But leakers who peddle selective information simply to damage the president for partisan reasons? That's a different species altogether. Reporters have to be able to spot the difference in order to get the public good information put in proper context. The reason that journalists have traditionally given leakers a high level of trust is that they are supposedly putting themselves in harm's way to reveal the truth. This is similar to the legal concept that an admission against one's own interest carries greater weight. But in today's political and media environment, leakers are almost never caught and punished. We still have no idea who leaked the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision, for example, so these leakers, these insiders, have learned to game the system. This time, it is essential that the Trump administration focus on finding and punishing the Fordow leakers. Doing so could quickly and dramatically improve American journalism. When Bertrand allegedly talked to seven people for her story minimizing the damage done to the Iranian nuclear program, did she ask herself why these deep state folks wanted the half-baked story rushed out? Because, it almost certainly wasn't pure patriotic duty. Had it turned out to be true that President Trump exaggerated the damage to Fordow, and a leaker put himself at risk just to let the U.S. and world know that Iran still wielded an imminent nuclear threat, perhaps that would have been a righteous act. But the leaked report came well before a full assessment had been done and was replete with cautionary language. There was far, far less to this report than met the eye. Whether it was the leaker or Bertrand herself who hid this important context matters little. It's up to the press to put such information into proper perspective. Did anyone at CNN say, "Hey, you know, there could be a political agenda behind this, and we might not be getting the whole story?" It sure doesn't seem like it. CNN claims that they said from the start that the report was low confidence, but Media Research Center has the receipts. Bertrand's initial reporting does not say anything about "low confidence." Either her trusty sources left that part out, or she was lying by omission. For days after that, CNN ran with this story, with every show leading with the blockbuster leak that is proving to be politically motivated nonsense. I regret to inform you, dear reader, that CNN and outlets of its ilk are not going to change or reform. The Trump administration can sue them all they want, as it is threatening to do to CNN and The New York Times in this case, but that's not the answer. When it comes to anti-Trump stories, CNN is like a heroin addict, and these deep-state leakers are their connection, providing endless fixes of short-term bliss that, in the long run, have cratered the network's credibility. The answer is to punish the leakers. The answer is to return to the original transaction, which was, we will take your leak seriously because you are risking jail to reveal it. Without the jail part, the whole concept falls to pieces. Leaks can simply be political hits, with no fingerprints. Whoever the deep-state Trump haters are who leaked this report damaged Trump's ability to negotiate with Iran and potentially put methods and sources of intelligence at risk by citing signals intelligence. For these reasons alone, the leakers, who were in positions of knowledge and trust, need to be punished. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was right this week when she said they "should go to jail." When it comes to anti-Trump stories, CNN is like a heroin addict, and these deep-state leakers are their connection, providing endless fixes of short-term bliss that, in the long run, have cratered the network's credibility. It's not enough to punish the addict. 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Yahoo
7 hours ago
- Yahoo
I moved my son out of New York to protect him when he was young — 14 years later, he was shot and killed there
My son was being bullied at school. I tried to spot it until one day he said he wanted to die. That was the final straw. I moved my family out of New York to Massachusetts to protect him. He was killed 14 years later in a mass shooting near the town we moved from. The irony was devastating. If there's one thing I have learned since losing my son Alex, it's that there are no perfect parents. We make the best, most loving decisions we can with what we know in the moment. Sometimes it works. Sometimes, no matter how hard we try, life seems determined to break our hearts. I had Alex when I was 31 years old. He was a beautiful boy with copper-blonde hair and deep, sparkling green eyes. A wisp as a child, Alex searched for fairies in the yard and loved to read books in my lap, his tiny hand warm in mine. He lived for soccer, Star Wars, and digging in dirt. Looking back, I think I sensed his fragility and that he wouldn't be here for long. I was a journalist in Albany, New York, at the height of my career, balancing an investigative, law, and court beat with marriage and two young kids. Alex's sister Tori came along when he was 5. Alex did well until late middle school, when bullies began harassing him at school and on the bus, pushing him, refusing him a bus seat, and throwing things at him. We took the proper steps: calling the kids' parents, taking the school to task to put a stop to it, and going back again and again. However, the bullying continued. The bus would calm down. Then a gym class ramped up. It was relentless. Until the day Alex told us he couldn't take any more, and he wished he could die. I could have simply moved him to a different school and stayed in New York, but I was worn down from trying to stop the bullying and had had enough. I wanted to move back home to Massachusetts to be with my dying mother, and since that option also offered a reprieve for Alex, that's what we did. We sold our house, said our goodbyes, and began a fresh start in Massachusetts. Leaving everything we knew — the home we'd built, our friends, and careers — was painful, but worth it. Little did I know, I'd lose Alex 14 years later, near the same town I'd tried to protect him from. Years passed after our move to Massachusetts. We made new friends, rediscovered old ones, and got good jobs. Alex finished high school, enlisted in the Army, and was assigned to Fort Drum in Watertown, NY, just hours from our old place. He served two tours in Afghanistan, was decorated, and made us so proud. It had a price, though. He received massive injuries from raids, developed Sarcoidosis of the lungs from the burn pits (areas where waste is burned at military bases), and medically retired on full disability at 26. He came home damaged, a different person, and inadequately prepared for civilian life. We loved having Alex home, but the transition was hard. He held a few jobs over the next few years and moved out on his own. However, his lung disease progressed rapidly, and soon, work was impossible. His depression deepened. By this time, I was divorced, and he had moved in with Tori and me so we could help him. Shortly before his death in 2021, Alex, then 29, was accepted into a two-week veterans' inpatient program at a Boston hospital to explore health solutions. Finally, we'd get some answers. However, hope was short-lived. The stay was canceled at the last minute due to missing paperwork that Veterans Affairs had not submitted on his behalf. Alex was crushed after waiting so long for assistance. He just could not catch a break. So, he decided to go visit his dad and some friends near our old upstate NY neighborhood for the weekend. He was killed the next day in a mass shooting outside an Albany bar. The irony was devastating. I moved our family away from a threat to Alex's life in NY, only to lose him there anyway. I will never forget the 2 a.m. call from the Albany Police that took part of me, too. I regret being forced to leave the lives we loved because of merciless bullying and the suffering it caused. I regret being robbed of the innocence and happiness we had before this complete and devastating circle of sadness. However, I am also grateful that by moving from the threat, we had another 14 years together as a family, never knowing that our son would leave as he did. Gaining more time with this amazing human in our lives, in either place, was a precious gift I could never regret. Read the original article on Business Insider
Yahoo
8 hours ago
- Yahoo
BBC News Presenters Back Demand For Strike Vote As Colleagues Face Compulsory Layoffs
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