时间:2018-12-16 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2013年(三月)


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Iraqi Journalists Battle to Report Freely



Live from a studio at al-Baghdadia TV, Murtada Mohamed Ali is reporting on how journalists are being prevented from covering a Baghdad cultural festival.


Al-Baghdadia focuses a great deal on political events, such as upcoming local elections and corruption 1. Manager Mohamed Hanoon Kareem says that, as a result, the station has been shut down twice in the past three years.


“Many on our staff have been arrested and harassed 3 by security forces," he says. "And sometimes when something happens, like an explosion, they won't let us cover it. Then sometimes they let us because it is not important to them.”


Ziad al-Ajili heads the media watchdog, Journalistic Freedoms Observatory 4. He says journalists now must obtain numerous permissions to cover even routine events.


“We publish a report on media freedom every year," he says. "This year's is the worst ever. The government has made new rules to pressure journalists and prevent us from working freely, especially the foreign media.”


Journalists face harassment 5 by security forces as seen in this video by an Iraqi reporter who filmed himself being beaten while saying repeatedly that he was a journalist.


Activists 6 say more than 140 journalists have been killed in Iraq in the past 10 years, one of the highest casualty rates in the world.


Dibras al-Ma'mouri founded the Iraqi Women Journalists Forum 7. She says female Iraqi reporters face even more challenges, from security forces as well as from colleagues.


“In Iraqi society they look at women as a lowly thing, not a working human being," she says. "They harass 2 them. They try to prevent them from working. They think the woman was made just for housework and nothing else.”


Kareem of Baghdadia-TV says objective reporting by Iraq's journalists is also rare.


“About 90 percent of Iraqi journalists follow some ideological 8, political or sectarian opinion," he says. "A few are working objectively. They are the ones who face problems with the government.”


Media activists say laws are needed to allow journalists to work freely in Iraq and to protect them. 




1 corruption
n.腐败,堕落,贪污
  • The people asked the government to hit out against corruption and theft.人民要求政府严惩贪污盗窃。
  • The old man reviled against corruption.那老人痛斥了贪污舞弊。
2 harass
vt.使烦恼,折磨,骚扰
  • Our mission is to harass the landing of the main Japaness expeditionary force.我们的任务是骚乱日本远征军主力的登陆。
  • They received the order to harass the enemy's rear.他们接到骚扰敌人后方的命令。
3 harassed
n.天文台,气象台,瞭望台,观测台
  • Guy's house was close to the observatory.盖伊的房子离天文台很近。
  • Officials from Greenwich Observatory have the clock checked twice a day.格林威治天文台的职员们每天对大钟检查两次。
4 harassment
n.骚扰,扰乱,烦恼,烦乱
  • She often got telephone harassment at night these days.这些天她经常在夜晚受到电话骚扰。
  • The company prohibits any form of harassment.公司禁止任何形式的骚扰行为。
5 activists
n.(政治活动的)积极分子,活动家( activist的名词复数 )
  • His research work was attacked by animal rights activists . 他的研究受到了动物权益维护者的抨击。
  • Party activists with lower middle class pedigrees are numerous. 党的激进分子中有很多出身于中产阶级下层。 来自《简明英汉词典》
6 forum
n.论坛,讨论会
  • They're holding a forum on new ways of teaching history.他们正在举行历史教学讨论会。
  • The organisation would provide a forum where problems could be discussed.这个组织将提供一个可以讨论问题的平台。
7 ideological
a.意识形态的
  • He always tries to link his study with his ideological problems. 他总是把学习和自己的思想问题联系起来。
  • He helped me enormously with advice on how to do ideological work. 他告诉我怎样做思想工作,对我有很大帮助。
学英语单词
5-hydroxytryptophan
a priori comparisons
air-breathing suit
anti-humanists
Belize Barrier Reef
bifilar helix slow-wave circuit
black compilation
border town pipers (scotland)
boze
bushfires
carboloy monoxide detector
caustic magnesia
Chatelperron
chemical equations
Chocholna-Velcice
chroming
cloverleaf antenna
companion ladders
concealed loss and damage claims
conjunctivo-antrostomy
cook utensil
counterdistinguish
crowded with
curanderos
decaying exponential
declarative instruction
deltaic deposit
Deo gratias
discount factoring
door barge
dtac
elaiosphere
electron theodolite
fibre bundle transfer function
fire service department box
gastrilegous
gear inertia
generalized linear phase
get it over with
give heed to
group disequilibrium
gruch
Headteachers
heagarty
heat tolerance coefficient
IMG tag
information handing system
interrecord structure
interrer
iso-electric level
Italian sixth
Kandhura
Knizhovnik
linguoid ripple mark
lob wedges
make money hand over fist
medical gymnastics
melanorosaurids
Menapian
metabisulphite
Moncontour
moniliasis pneumonia
monohydric acid
morning paralyses
multidimensional niche
nationals
nodulus
omnipresent program
one man bridge operation
oxygen-hydrogen recombiner
parafin section
parallel random access machine
phosphatic calculus
polyrhizum
pop-group
push-button yard
resource stock
ridge transform system
rod segment
rotary cutting assembly
S/ON (sign-on)
Schweine-Vasopressin
sector photometer
securities paper
sexual reaction
shoebird
slide prevention
slip nooses
splanchnic cell
surinamiae
time equation
torcaso
total phosphorus
unit in kind
Uruti
valency electrons
waller effect
well-behavedly
Wemale
winevault
wtf
yellow-throated marten skin