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The discreet charm of newsprint
Seeded on Sun Sep 9, 2007 2:31 AM EDT (Toronto)
Two new studies from Harvard University should send a chill through newspaper executives who think that paper is passé and the future is all about cyberspace.
YouTube rescues Morocco's muffled press
Seeded on Sat Sep 8, 2007 3:20 AM EDT (editorsweblog.org)
In the past six months, restraints on press freedom and pressures put on journalists and newspapers have proliferated, as the country is about to vote for its legislators. Fortunately, the Web and citizen journalism is helping anonymous Moroccans to speak out.
Top film-makers rally to save BBC documentaries
Seeded on Sat Sep 8, 2007 3:15 AM EDT (Independent.co.uk)
British documentaries were once the gold standard, winning critical acclaim around the world. But leading documentary-makers are warning that the industry is now in crisis, with funding siphoned off to factual entertainment and reality-television shows.
Channel 4 to air Britain's first Christianity advert for "homosexuality is sin" group
Seeded on Sat Sep 8, 2007 3:08 AM EDT (Independent.co.uk)
Channel 4 is to broadcast Britain's first advertisement for a mainstream Christian movement next week in a move which may herald the arrival of US-style "televangelism" to our screens.
Experiment Shows Compliments Could Earn Hairstylists Thousands More in Tips
Seeded on Sat Sep 8, 2007 3:03 AM EDT (spring.org.uk)
This new experiment is a bit DUH! but from now on I will tip only if I get a shoulder and neck massage along with the haircut.
Paris Hilton sues Hallmark for showing her working
Seeded on Sat Sep 8, 2007 2:57 AM EDT (Reuters)
Socialite Paris Hilton has filed a lawsuit against Hallmark Cards, claiming it used her likeness without permission on a greeting card entitled "Paris's First Day as a Waitress."
FBI loses 007 licence
Seeded on Sat Sep 8, 2007 2:55 AM EDT (mybroadband.co.za)
The FBI lost its 'blanket right' to access financial, telephone and Internet records without court authorization after a federal judge struck down the parts of the recently revised USA Patriot Act.
The surrogate mother who gave her OWN baby away by mistake
Seeded on Sat Sep 8, 2007 2:51 AM EDT (the Mail online)
Britain's most prolific surrogate is now having triplets for another woman but more incredible is the story of how she gave away her own baby...by mistake!
Are the McCann's Blameless? This Journalist Has a Nagging Doubt
Seeded on Sat Sep 8, 2007 2:40 AM EDT (lawfuel.com)
Even the British are now starting to question the the strange media courtship of Madeleine McCann's parents and wondering ...
98% newspaper mistakes in US newspapers go uncorrected
Seeded on Thu Sep 6, 2007 4:39 PM EDT (newswatch.in)
Almost half of the articles published by daily newspapers in the US contain one or more factual errors, and less than two per cent end up being corrected.
Gay couple left free to abuse boys - because social workers feared being branded homophobic
Seeded on Wed Sep 5, 2007 7:11 PM EDT (the Mail online)
A homosexual foster couple were left free to sexually abuse vulnerable boys in their care because social workers feared being accused of discrimination if they investigated complaints, an inquiry concluded yesterday.
Censorship: Fcking up the World Wide Web, one vowel at a time
Seeded on Wed Sep 5, 2007 4:38 PM EDT ()
Online pioneers are bypassing so-called censorship laws and changing the ways we use language
Guardian Reclaims America - GuardianAmerica website coming this month
Seeded on Wed Sep 5, 2007 5:58 AM EDT (observer.com)
Alan Rusbridger, the editor of the Guardian, the storied, handsome British newspaper with a spectacularly successful worldwide Web site, had already tried to build his newspaper a proper home in the United States twice.
Hand-rolled cigarettes more carcinogenic: study
Seeded on Wed Sep 5, 2007 5:51 AM EDT (Reuters)
Smokers of hand-rolled cigarettes tend to consume less tobacco, but face a greater risk of developing lung cancer than those who smoke manufactured cigarettes, a study on Norwegian lung cancer patients has found.
Two women thought to be witches burnt to death
Seeded on Wed Sep 5, 2007 5:39 AM EDT (IOL)
Two women were burnt to death in what police believe was an attempt by pupils to rid a northern KwaZulu-Natal school of evil spirits, police said on Wednesday.
A Visit to OhmyNews, "the most successful citizen journalism effort so far"
Seeded on Wed Sep 5, 2007 3:35 AM EDT (prwatch.org)
OhmyNews relies on the contributions of over 60,000 citizen reporters worldwide, and OhmyNews International has over 3,000 global citizen reporters writing stories in English from 100 countries.
SA submarine eludes Nato force
Seeded on Tue Sep 4, 2007 4:43 PM EDT (IOL)
A lone South African submarine has left some North Atlantic Treaty Organisation commanders with red faces Tuesday as it "sank" all the ships of the Nato Maritime Group engaged in exercises with the SA Navy off the Cape Coast.
Magazine search for 'sexiest feminist' sparks outrage
Seeded on Tue Sep 4, 2007 6:08 AM EDT (Australian News Network)
The men's magazine which sparked outrage when it offered a $10,000 boob job as a competition prize has responded to its critics by launching a search for Australia's sexiest feminist.
Are Men Threatened by Funny Women?
Seeded on Tue Sep 4, 2007 4:07 AM EDT (AlterNet.org)
Sense of humor is defined differently for men and women, says Gina Barreca, a professor of English literature and feminist theory at the University of Connecticut.
What Are We So Afraid Of?
Seeded on Tue Sep 4, 2007 3:34 AM EDT (The Hartford Courant)
Death doesn't discriminate, but at least when it comes to the deaths of strangers, neither is it immune to certain hierarchical precepts. A cursory glance at what we pay most attention to suggests that grand spectacle rules the day.
God's Harvard: A College That Prepares Christian Crusaders
Seeded on Tue Sep 4, 2007 3:29 AM EDT (MSNBC)
Its dorms are filled mostly with kids who have been home-schooled all their lives by Bible-believing Christian parents and who were taught that homosexuality is an abomination and that Adam and Eve cavorted with dinosaurs in the Garden of Eden.
The Mongol's last battle?
Seeded on Tue Sep 4, 2007 3:14 AM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)
Jawaharlal Nehru called them the single most dominant race in the history of the world. Their empire, the largest ever conceived, stretched over millions of kilometres from modern-day Vietnam to Hungary.
Citizen journalists expose rot of professional journalism in Nigeria
Seeded on Tue Sep 4, 2007 3:11 AM EDT (pressgazette.co.uk)
Newspaper reporters in Nigeria frequently demand payments just to turn up to press conferences. The rot in the business runs so deep it's almost impossible to tell what is fact, as a new generation of web-based "citizen journalists" is revealing.
Would George Orwell have been a blogger?
Seeded on Tue Sep 4, 2007 3:06 AM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)
Most people who bother at all would probably admit that the English of the worldwide web - verbose, rambling and ill-tempered - is not really the kind they want to read in a book or a newspaper.
No apology for Mohammed cartoon, Swedish newspaper says
Seeded on Sun Sep 2, 2007 4:25 PM EDT (Google)
A leading Swedish newspaper on Saturday said the country would not apologize for the recent publication of a Prophet Mohammed cartoon which has inflamed devout Muslims around the world.
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