Rory Carroll
Rory Carroll is an Irish journalist working for The Guardian who has reported from Iraq and Latin America.
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[edit] Early life and career
Born in Dublin, Carroll is a graduate of Blackrock College, Trinity College and Dublin City University. He reported for the paper from Rome (1999–2002) and Johannesburg (2002–2005), before volunteering to work in Baghdad from January 2005.
Carroll's article about Hamilton Naki that appeared in The Guardian in 2003,[1] which was cited by the New York Times as the original source of their erroneous reporting in 2005[2] about the role Hamilton Naki played when the first heart transplant was performed at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa in 1967.
On October 19, 2005 he was abducted in Baghdad after carrying out an interview with a victim of Saddam Hussein's regime. The interview had been arranged with the assistance of the Baghdad office of Moqtada al-Sadr. Carroll was released unharmed by his captors a day later.
[edit] Latin America correspondent
In April 2006 he was appointed The Guardian's Latin America correspondent, based in the newspaper's Caracas bureau.[3] His reporting from Caracas was criticised by Red Pepper in 2008 for what was judged to be a trend of misrepresentation of the Venezuelan reality and its leader, Hugo Chávez. Carroll also said that he is "not a champion of impartiality", but he says he is open-minded: "I see a government that is doing some good things and some bad things ".[4]
"I try to give a sense of how bizarre and funny some things are,"..."like when Chávez, on his own [weekly] TV show, Aló Presidente, ordered the mobilisation of 9,000 soldiers and tanks to the Colombian border. On the one hand that's a serious story, but there is bombast too ... mobilisation on that scale never happened."[5]
On 3 July 2011, The Observer published an article by Carroll featuring an interview with Noam Chomsky concerning the detention of Maria Lourdes Afiuni, an arrested Venezuelan judge, in which Chomsky criticised the government of Hugo Chávez.[6] Chomsky said in an email exchange with the Znet blogger Joe Emersberger that the report was "deceptive" because of the omission of his comparison of the case of Bradley Manning with the arrested Venezuelan judge, among other points, and rejected the assertion that Venezuela was less democratic than before Chávez took office: "I don’t think so, and never suggested it."[7] The Guardian, sister paper of The Observer, reproduced the entire transcript of Carroll's exchange with Chomsky the following day on its website.[8]
[edit] References
- ^ Carroll, Rory (25 April 2003). "Two men transplanted the first human heart. One ended up rich and famous - the other had to pretend to be a gardener. Until now". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 25 April 2003. http://web.archive.org/web/20030425231427/http://www.guardian.co.uk/southafrica/story/0,13262,943165,00.html. Retrieved 14 October 2011. "The donor was Denise Darvall, a 25-year-old who stopped to buy a cake, was hit by a car and was pronounced brain dead by the doctors. With the permission of her father, 60 seconds after the respirator was turned off, a team led by Naki went to work, a 48-hour marathon."
- ^ Wines, Michael (27 August 2005). "Accounts of South African's Career Now Seen as Overstated". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/27/international/africa/27africa.html. Retrieved 14 October 2011. "But reports that he was an actual heart transplant surgeon appear to have emerged more recently, most prominently in a 2003 article in The Guardian. That article stated flatly that in December 1967, "a team led by Mr. Naki went to work, a 48-hour marathon" to remove the heart from the donor, an auto accident victim, for transplantation into Mr. Washkansky."
- ^ "Guardian in shakeup of foreign desk", The Guardian, 12 April 2006
- ^ Samuel Grove "Carroll in wonderland: how the Guardian misrepresents Venezuela", Red Pepper, 16 September 2008
- ^ Siobhain Butterworth "Open Door: The readers' editor on ... alternatives to impartiality", The Guardian, 7 April 2008. Carroll is only identified as the newspaper's "Latin America correspondent" in this article.
- ^ Rory Carroll "Noam Chomsky denounces old friend Hugo Chávez for 'assault' on democracy", The Observer, 3 July 2011
- ^ Joe Emersberger "Chomsky Says UK Guardian Article 'Quite Deceptive' About his Chavez Criticism", Znet, 4 July 2011
- ^ Rory Carroll and Noam Chomsky "Noam Chomsky on Venezuela – the transcript", The Guardian (website), 4 July 2011
[edit] External links
- Articles by Rory Carroll in The Guardian
- "Guardian journalist abducted in Baghdad" from The Guardian.
- News of Carroll release from RTÉ.
