Related: Colombia's Terrorist Journalist
Only because he tells the truth.
"Reporting is not terrorism
Actually, I consider the front-paging of war lies and the continuing obfuscations and distortions as acts of terrorism, Globe. Sorry.
IN THE war on drugs, Colombia has been a close partner of the United States. But the Obama administration wrongly deferred to that government when it denied a student visa to Colombian TV producer Hollman Morris, who received a Nieman journalism fellowship at Harvard.
The bureaucratic reason was that, like other independent journalists in his country, he has been accused of having terrorist associations. The Patriot Act bars foreigners suspected of terrorist ties from gaining entry to the United States. Of course, the accusations against Morris come from Colombian government officials unhappy about his efforts to report on the leftist guerrilla group known as the FARC....
The Committee to Protect Journalists and Human Rights Watch have said the charges that he has ties to the FARC are unsubstantiated. Outside the government of Colombia’s outgoing President Alvaro Uribe, Morris has a reputation for journalistic integrity and independence.
In contrast, Colombia’s intelligence agency and government officials have an ugly history of smearing as terrorist sympathizers journalists who report things the government does not want them to report....
That's what NEWSPAPERS do to BLOGGERS here in Amerika!!
