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Reporter's Notebook: Brenda Norrell

Censorship in Arizona

Posted by Brenda Norrell - November 18, 2009 at 10:40 pm

By Brenda Norrell

TUCSON -- There were two events over the weekend that deserved national and international news coverage. Those events were the O'odham Solidarity Event "Apartheid in America" and the Southwest Weekend to End Torture, with a vigil and arrests at Fort Huachuca Army base. Only a few reporters covered these events. The University of Arizona's Wildcat sent a reporter and photographer to the O'odham Solidarity Event. Stanley Throssell, publisher of O'odham newspaper The Runner, also covered the event. The Sierra Vista Herald covered the torture protest. TV channel 13 KOLD did come to the torture resisters' training on Saturday.

Where were the rest of the Tucson and Phoenix media?

There was a time when news reporters didn't have to be told to cover an event, even on weekends. They did it because it was the right thing to do. They did it because they are journalists and whether they are paid or unpaid, on the job or off, they accept a high calling of moral responsibility. It is an easy out to say "I wasn't assigned," "It was my day off," or "I might not even get paid for it."

We have full video coverage of these events:

http://www.livestream.com/earthcycles

High resolution photos:

brendanorrell@gmail.com

About Brenda Norrell

Personal Website
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/

Biography

Brenda Norrell has been a news reporter in Indian country for 27 years. She is currently based in Tucson and covers Mexico, the U.S. borders and the West, focusing on Indigenous Peoples and human rights. She cohosted the five-month Longest Walk talk radio across America, with American Indians walking for sacred Mother Earth and publishes Censored News.

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