Blog entries from Pedja Urosevic

Azhar Ahmed: Facebook Thought Criminal

Pedja Urosevic — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 13:51:54 +0100

Published: 16 March 2012

Region: Great Britain

Pedja Urosevic & Patrick White

19-year-old Azhar Ahmed has been arrested and charged with a Read More...

When Speed Trumps Humanity: The Common EU policy on asylum seekers

Pedja Urosevic — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:18:53 +0100

Published: 20 January 2012

Region: European Union

By Pedja Urosevic

Media reporting on the rights of asylum seekers and other vulnerable groups in Europe has always been driven by politics and particularly by Read More...

Stereotypes That Bring a Superhero Crashing Down to Earth

Pedja Urosevic — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 10:59:17 +0100

Published: 15 November 2011

Region: USA & Worldwide

By Fitri Adi Anugrah and Pedja Urosevic

“It’s tiresomely obvious, but not made clear at all in this work that Al Qaeda is a terrorist group, andRead More...

US Journalism’s Lack of Focus on Wall Street

Pedja Urosevic — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 09:35:21 +0100

Published: 21 October

Region: US & Worldwide

By Pedja Urosevic

They’ve been ‘occupying’ Wall Street for almost a month, but people looking for information on what it’s all about are forcRead More...

Questionable Journalism at the BBC

Pedja Urosevic — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 09:17:20 +0100

Published: 19 August 2011

Pedja Urosevic for the Media Diversity Institute

If Fiona Armstrong or anyone else at the BBC had given it a second thought they would never have put the following question to veteran rights campaigner and author Darcus Howe: “Mr. Howe. If I can just ask you, you are not a stranger to riots yourself, I understand, are you? You have taken part in them yourself?”

Not surprisRead More...

Who do you trust? One man against the LGBT community in Syria

Pedja Urosevic — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 14:09:51 +0100

Published: 17 June 2011

Region: Worldwide

'This experience has sadly only confirmed my feelings regarding the often superficial coverage of the Middle East and the pervasiveness of new forms of liberal Orientalism.' – Tom MacMaster, infamous for hisRead More...

Serbian Media Watch: The peculiar case of ‘bogus asylum seekers’

Pedja Urosevic — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 11:10:35 +0100

Published:17 June 2011

Region: Serbia & EU

'Stricter border control' has become a buzz-phrase in Serbia. It used to mean the EU practising a tough regime; these days it’s the Serbian governRead More...

French Media: Naming and shaming of the alleged victim

Pedja Urosevic — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 11:26:28 +0100

Published: 10 June 2011

Region: France & Wordwide

"We do not know what happened in New York on Saturday May 14, but we know what has been happening in France in the past week…We have been disgustedRead More...

US Christian pastor addresses islamophobia in western culture

Pedja Urosevic — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 14:28:25 +0100

Posted: September 21, 2010

Region: Worldwide

“I believe that every action creates an equal and opposite reaction, and that actions of hatred, intolerance and ignorance create an ever escalating cyclical pattern of more hatred, intolerance and ignorance” - Reverend Wayne Lavender, a Christian Pastor, on the recent US Qu'ran burning controversy.

The pastor, from Virginia (USA), is trying to find a way to offset the rise of islamophobRead More...