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Talk Islam (Free subscription) | yesterday
Reading Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid’s “Taliban” the much-praised book about the ’student movement’ that was published just prior to Sept. 11th. An observation: It’s interesting to note how different the Taliban are as an Islamic movement in control of a population from other Islamic movements with similar responsibilities. Hizbollah and Hamas essentially made...
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TechSheep (Free subscription) | yesterday
Paul Carr / TechCrunch: NSFW: After Fort Hood, another example of how ‘citizen journalists’ can’t handle the truth — I’d probably feel slightly smug, if I didn’t feel so sick. — Smug that after two weeks of me suggesting that social media might not be an unequivocally Good Thing in terms of privacy and human [...]
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TheLetterTwo.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
I’m quite supportive of folks using social media and the web to their advantage as they want to report on the latest news. And it has worked pretty well in the past year or so since catching the attention of mainstream media. Whether it’s the historic 2008 presidential election, the Miracle on the Hudson captured by [...]
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Denver Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
Iranian authorities have released three journalists who were among more than 100 people arrested during pro-government and opposition street demonstrations last week, the country's official news agency reported. One of the reporters is an Iranian who works for Agence France-Presse.
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GINA COBB (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
After a year of "hope," "change," and hogwash, and with approval ratings of Obama sinking and of Congress sunk, Americans are mad as hell -- and an increasing number won't take it anymore. Via Don Surber, who adds Karen's Youtube remarks: “I’m a US Veteran — Democrat — citizen who is mad! During the Presidential address on Nov. 5, 2009, President Obama gave...
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San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Iranian authorities have released three journalists who were among more than 100 people arrested during pro-government and opposition street demonstrations this week, the country's official news agency reported.
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Review Site (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Richard Cunningham is a freelance journalist who covers copyright law for ResearchCopyright.comResearchCopyright.com. Download his free e-book, ‘Copyright Basics’ at ResearchCopyright.comResearchCopyright.com. Learn to Read Piano Music [...]
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Antony Loewenstein (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
VJ Movement is “an ongoing collaboration between a global network of freelance professional video journalists and editorial cartoonists, and you, the public:
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Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
A man has confessed to the double murder of human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov and opposition journalist Anastasia Baburova, his lawyer said Friday. The two murders provoked international condemnation in January.
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Iranian officials arrested a Japanese and two Canadian reporters during anti-government demonstrations this week and charged them with "unauthorized reporting," the semiofficial Fars News Agency reported Friday. More on Canada
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The Daily Dish (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Jeremy Clarkson is pissed off, wants to leave Britain but is stymied as to where to go: You can’t go to France because you need to complete 17 forms in triplicate every time you want to build a greenhouse, and...
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L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
The host of 'Top Gear' aims higher. He recounts his childhood fascination with space travel, endures astronaut training and travels in a U-2 spy plane. Any big questions, though, go unexplored. James May begins his new documentary, " James May on the Moon " (BBC America, 8 p.m. Tuesday), where he belongs: in a car, on the ground. He's a host of " Top Gear ," the cheeky British automobile...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
The UK produces woefully few civil engineers, yet it is a uniquely satisfying trade. Ian Wylie meets one man who is proud to say he has tunnel vision There is just one question I want to ask Martin Kelly as a crane lowers our cage 40m down a huge concrete hole so we can admire the 4m-wide, 10km-long sewer pipe which he and his colleagues have been building. And that is: Why? Yes, it's a dirty job....
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
The Independent 's Johann Hari has been named Journalist of the Year at the Stonewall awards. The judges said Hari is "a force to be reckoned with. He's quickly established himself as a leading commentator." Receiving the award, Hari said: "The only gay award I've ever been nominated for before was 'Worst Dressed Gay Man In Britain', and I was beaten by David Furnish, so I am really...
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Indian Express (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Prabhash Joshi, a veteran journalist, columnist and chief editorial adviser of Jansatta, The Indian Express Group's Hindi daily, died following a heart attack on Thursday night at the age of 72.
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traimi | 21/09/2009
It is said that sometimes, a reputed face of an industry can rise a business or knock it down to ashes with just some public words. It is the case of Reva, the Indian electric car producer, which had the bad luck of coming across with the automotive guru, Jeremy Clarkson, who didn’t have quite laudative comments about them.
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rex6666 | 30/06/2009
A few months ago, the BBCs Top Gear and Sun columnist Jeremy Clarkson , unveiled his manifesto for running Britain as PM. And since then we've had a string of celebrities contemplate running as independent MPs in wake of the scandalous MPs expenses saga, first broken by the Telegraph newspaper . Yesterday Gordon Brown was trying to reclaim the political agenda by announcing a raft of measures on social...