A stellar cast of Australian journalists has signed a letter to East Timor Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao and President Jose Ramos Horta in support of journalist Jose Belo who has been charged with criminal defamation for an article he published.
The names include Four Corners reporter Liz Jackson, Sydney MOrning Herald reporter David Marr, the ABC’s Quentin Dempster and Mark Colvin, The Australian’s Mark Dodd, John Pilger, The Age’s Lindsay Murdoch and many others – 86 in all. (Declaration: Including me.)
For the background, read here and here and here.
The signatories have been rounded by Wendy Bacon, the Head of Journalism and Media Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney.
Anyone who wants to be included in future correspondence on this can contact Bacon at wendy.bacon@uts.edu.au .
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Stellar? you must be joking and since when is John Pilger from ‘The Australian’?
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