14917: Dorce: Re: 14894: (Chamberlain) Haiti radio station stops broadcasts (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: LAKAT47@aol.com

In a message dated 2/22/03 6:25:43 AM Pacific Standard Time, Greg Chamberlain
<GregChamberlain@compuserve.com>submits:

<<  By Michael Deibert

      PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Feb  21 (Reuters) - Almost three years after
 the murder of her journalist husband, the head of one of Haiti's most
 popular radio stations said on Friday the private station was going off the
 air indefinitely because of threats against its staff.

[and then for some reason Deibert adds...]

 Earlier this week, another main station, Radio Metropole, stopped
broadcasting news for 24 hours to protest attacks against its journalists
by supporters of President Jean-Betrand Aristide, who became Haiti's first
freely elected president in 1991 and began his second term in 2001.
     The investigation into the Dominique slaying has become an emotional
flashpoint in this impoverished Caribbean nation of 8 million. Three judges
investigating the case have quit, saying they have been subjected to
threats, pressure and obstruction from people close to the Aristide
government.
     Brignol Lindor, a journalist in the provincial city of Petit Goave,
was hacked to death by a group of Aristide supporters in December 2001.>>
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So is Deibert insinuating that Lavalas is responsible for Radio Haiti Inter
closing?  It sure looks like it.  Very bad example of balanced reporting.

Kathy Dorce~