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Blogger arrests hit record high
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| BBC | Jun. 16, 2008
More bloggers than ever face arrest for exposing human rights abuses or criticising governments, says a report. Since 2003, 64 people have been arrested for publishing their views on a blog, says the University of Washington annual report. Read
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The End of Network News as We Know It?
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| By Brian Steinberg | AdAge.com | Apr. 28, 2008
The big three TV network newscasts lost about 1.2 million viewers last year, and advertising on their three big morning news shows fell to an estimated $1.03 billion. The average viewer is 60 years old, and the demographic marketers most want to reach is more likely to be facing a computer screen than a TV screen when the evening news comes on. Read
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Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon’s Hidden Hand
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| The New York Times | April 20, 2008
In the summer of 2005, the Bush administration confronted a fresh wave of criticism over Guantánamo Bay. The detention center had just been branded “the gulag of our times” by Amnesty International, there were new allegations of abuse from United Nations human rights experts and calls were mounting for its closure. Read
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Murdoch, Zell Join AP Board
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| Associated Press | April 15, 2008
Rupert Murdoch and Sam Zell, two media figures who led major newspaper acquisitions in recent months, are among four new members joining the board of directors of The Associated Press, it was announced Monday at the news cooperative's annual meeting. Read
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Witnessing death drives home cost of Iraq war
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| By Todd Pitman | Associated Press | Mar. 17, 2008
AP EDITOR'S NOTE: AP West Africa Bureau Chief Todd Pitman spent nearly two months in Iraq last year. He was in a vehicle behind Dmitry Chebotayev's when the Russian photojournalist was killed along with six American soldiers May 6, 2007. In my nightmares, the helicopters still come out of a dark sky, two black spots barely visible against the backdrop of night. Their swirling blades grow louder until they finally touch down on earth and fall silent. They look like giant steel bugs from another planet, bulbous robots with eyes of glass coming to take away their prey: seven human beings who woke one day in Iraq not knowing they would be dead by noon. Read
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Media Smeared Paul For Racism, Ignored McCain’s “Gook” Comments
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| By Paul Joseph Watson | PrisonPlanet.com | Feb. 6, 2008
A shining example of how the media engaged in a witch hunt as part a coordinated campaign to sink the presidential campaign of Congressman Ron Paul is when they attacked him for vaguely racist comments made by other people in the 80's, while completely ignoring the fact that Republican frontrunner John McCain openly said he hated "gooks" more recently. Read
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Public Broadcasters Prepare to Fight Federal Budget Cuts
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| By Elizabeth Jensen | The New York Times | Feb. 6, 2008
It’s a familiar dance: for eight straight years, the Bush administration has proposed deep cuts in federal funds for public broadcasting, and seven times so far, Congress has restored them. But the magnitude of the proposed cuts put forth this week — Patricia Harrison, president of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, called them “draconian” — still sent public broadcasters scrambling. Read
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