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class=625243415-08092005>One thing that continues to plague me: how do we
analyse or understand significant absences? </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=625243415-08092005>Any ideas??</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=625243415-08092005>Phil</SPAN></FONT></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Mark Crispin Miller
[mailto:mcm7@MAIL.nyu.edu] <BR><B>Sent:</B> September 8, 2005 11:14
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<DIV><B>Federal Government Attempts to Block Press Access To New
Orleans</B></DIV>
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<DIV>In New Orleans the federal government is being accused of trying to censor
the images coming out of the devastated city. The Reuters news agency is
reporting that the Federal Emergency Management Agency is now rejecting requests
by journalists to accompany rescue boats searching for storm victims. In
addition journalists are being asked not to photograph any dead bodies in the
region. Critics of FEMA's request compared the policy to the Pentagon's policy
that bars reporters from taking photographs of the caskets of soldiers killed in
Iraq.</DIV>
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<DIV>NBC News Anchor Brian Williams is reporting that police officers have been
seen aiming their weapons at members of the media. And a blogger named Bob
Brigham has written a widely read dispatch that the National Guard in Jefferson
County are under orders to turn all journalists away. Brigham writes *Bush is
now censoring all reporting from New Orleans Louisiana. The First Amendment sank
with the city.*</DIV>
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