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Here's a couple of blog postings. Jay Rosen has written that he didn't think Eason Jordan should have stepped down from his executive position with CNN over his Davos remarks. Rosen then points to a posting from the blog Glocal man, who wrote the following post on Feb. 15: Eason Jordan, bagged by glocal bloggers: [...]
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The International Federation of Journalists is taking a shot at the United States over journalist deaths in Iraq in the wake of the Eason Jordan affair. An excerpt from The Guardian article: The US government was today accused of hiding behind a “culture of denial” over the deaths of at least 12 journalists who are [...]
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Kirk Makin of The Globe and Mail wrote about the Stevie Cameron dust-up on CAJ-L today. On the surface, he appeared to have just scraped the list postings and didn't put much more into it, other than an interview with CAJ president Paul Schneidereit. Here's an excerpt: After consuming much of the 1,300-member (Note: It's [...]
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Certain elements on Toronto city council — who mainly represent the culturally vibrant suburbs — don't want any posters cluttering up the cityscape. I would fall into the camp that says postering is part of what makes a city come alive. To that end, there is a concert tonight at the Bloor Cinema. Details to [...]
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The two were working near the Sunni insurgent hotspot of Ramadi, reports al-Arabiya. Here's an excerpt of the Associated Press story carried on globeandmail.com: The Arabic-language satellite network said the two were kidnapped Feb. 15, and both were working for an Indonesian television station. The Indonesian Foreign Ministry said in a statement it had received [...]
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A couple more pieces on “Jeff Gannon's” admission to the White House press club, ostensibly to lob softballs to Dubya. From Salon.com's Sidney Blumenthal: It turned out that Jeff Gannon's real name is James Dale Guckert and that he had no journalistic background whatsoever. His application for a press credential to cover Congress, a process [...]
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