[ti:In Kashmir, News Gathering a Difficult Job] [by:www.51voa.com] [00:00.00]更多听力请访问51VOA.COM [00:00.04]News media are having difficulty reporting from Kashmir. [00:06.64]The trouble started two weeks ago when India's central government took direct control of the territory. [00:15.36]Since then, area newspapers either have not published at all or published in very small, limited editions. [00:26.36]Reporters working in Kashmir are having trouble gaining entry to areas surrounded by security forces. [00:34.23]Traditional landline telephones are disconnected. [00:38.91]Mobile phone service and the internet are not working. [00:44.64]Srinagar is Kashmir's summer capital. [00:47.96]Its streets are filled with barriers to restrict the movement of protestors. [00:56.00]Sonia Sarkar is a journalist based in New Delhi. [01:00.33]She was among the reporters to receive Indian government permission to visit the city. [01:08.60]Sarkar said she was able to get around much of Srinagar during her three-day trip last week. [01:16.83]Yet, she said security officers made it difficult to reach areas where protests take place. [01:25.60]"There is an attempt to create...fear...to prevent you going ahead," she said. [01:33.24]Sarkar was unable to get to the Soura neighborhood of Srinagar. [01:38.85]Some observers believe that it is becoming the unofficial headquarters of resistance to India. [01:47.44]The British Broadcasting Corporation and Al-Jazeera television reported a large protest in Soura on August 9. [01:57.41]At first, the Indian government denied there was a demonstration. [02:02.93]Later, it said about 1,000 to 1,500 people attended. [02:10.20]Indian officials have said that journalists are free to visit Kashmir. [02:15.51]Yet local Kashmiri reporters have a hard time gathering news, talking to people and filing reports. [02:25.20]The daily Kashmir Times was unable to publish for two weeks after India announced the change in Kashmir's status. [02:35.69]The newspaper's leadership was unable to contact employees. [02:42.36]"Until about two days ago, there was not a single communication from our staffers in Srinagar... [02:50.17]there was a complete information vacuum," said Anuradha Bhasin. [02:56.64]She is the executive editor of The Kashmir Times. [03:00.86]Bhasin is based in Jammu, the Hindu majority area outside the Kashmir Valley. [03:08.84]The newspaper finally published on August 21. [03:13.08]The paper used information that came from New Delhi TV and news agencies. [03:19.88]"Security forces were more hostile to the local journalists," Bhasin said. [03:26.20]Some local reporters have said they sometimes act like local Kashmiris visiting patients in the hospitals to get past security positions. [03:37.20]Also there are few people for reporters to question; [03:41.58]most Kashmiris are staying inside buildings, and political leaders are in detention. [03:49.60]Sarkar said she had to be very careful getting video because the security forces would stop her. [03:56.99]She also said Kashmiris were afraid to talk about the situation on camera. [04:04.40]"This has never happened; in Kashmir everybody has always been very willing to talk. [04:11.00]Now, they are extremely careful," she said. [04:15.36]I'm Susan Shand. 更多听力请访问51VOA.COM