Impersonator Anthony Wilson, of Calumet Park, Ill., pauses for a moment to mourn on Friday, June 26, 2009 in front of Michael Jackson's childhood home in Gary, Ind. The pop star died on Thursday in Los Angeles.
Wyatt Puryear, of Gary, holds a bottle of Michael Jackson cologne on Friday, June 26, 2009 in the front yard of the pop star's childhood home in Gary, Ind. Jackson autographed the bottle when he returned to his childhood home in 2003. "It's really hurting me right now," Puryear said of the pop icon's unexpected death.
Anthony Wilson, an impersonator from Calumet Park, Ill., dances on Friday, June 26, 2009 in the front yard of Michael Jackson's childhood home in Gary, Ind. Fans gathered at the home to remember the pop star by playing Jackson's music and dancing.
Fans and members of the media converge on Michael Jackson's childhood home on Friday, June 26, 2009 in Gary, Ind.
Following the unexpected death of pop icon Michael Jackson on Thursday, people around the world have gathered to mourn Jackson’s death. This was the case in Gary, Ind. at the childhood home of Jackson where on the morning after his death, fans continued to pay their respects.
I drove over to Gary from South Bend at about 7 a.m. EDT to photograph the crowds gathered on the front lawn of the former Jackson home. Fans where there in force, but so were the national media who had set up shop on the sidewalk in front of the home.
One of the most surprising things about the day was the ratio of tears to dancing, which was heavily slanted towards the latter. It seemed that many mourners who came out to the Jackson home wanted to remember the pop star by dancing and singing to his music rather than crying or focusing on the sadder aspects of his life.
Walter Cronkite, the legendary CBS newsman, is close to death, his family said in a statement on Thursday. According to his family, Cronkite is suffering from cerebrovascular disease.
Cronkite, 92, anchored the “CBS Evening News” for 19 years after Edward R. Murrow recruited him to the network in 1950. During his time at CBS, Cronkite has walked the nation through some of the biggest stories in the Twentieth Century including the Kennedy assassination, Vietnam and Apollo 11’s landing on the moon.
At CBS, Cronkite was often cited as “the most trusted man in America” by viewer public opinion polls.
Cronkite anchored his last broadcast on March 6, 1981, relinquishing the chair to Dan Rather.
Iran is now restricting the movements of foreign journalists covering the country’s controversial election, CNN reported today.
Officials have told journalists they are confined to their bureaus or hotel rooms, and their safety cannot be guaranteed if they cover opposition protests.
Protesters have taken to the streets to protest the legitimacy of the country’s recent presidential election.
The restrictions on foreign media has lead many, including CNN, to turn to social networking sites such as Twitter for up-to-date information on the protests. Al Jazeerareported today the government is scrambling to block internet traffic to Twitter and Facebook and jamming radio signals from the BBC.
Two American journalists being held in North Korea were arrested while sneaking into the country from China, the North’s state-controlled media reported today.
Laura Ling, 32, and Euna Lee, 36, both journalists working for Current TV, were working on a piece for the network about refugees crossing the border into China. They were arrested on March 17 after crossing the frozen Tumen River into North Korea while filming a segment for their report, the Korean Central News Agency reported.
“We’ve just entered a North Korean courtyard without permission,” the journalists’ narration said, according to KCNA.
Last week, North Korea’s high court sentenced the journalists to 12 years in forced labor camps. The North said their piece was a human rights “smear campaign.”
“The accused admitted that what they did were criminal acts committed, prompted by the political motive to isolate and stifle the socialist system of (North Korea) by faking up moving images aimed at falsifying its human rights performance and hurling slanders and calumnies at it,” the KCNA report said.
Since their detainment, Ling and Lee have become pawns in an escalating international crisis. In April, the North tested a missile, marking another milestone in the country’s pursuit of nuclear superpower status.
Some see the journalists as a bargining chip for the North. The United Nations recently enacted tougher sanctions on the communist nation in a hope to curb its growing nuclear ambitions.
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