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The Toronto Star's Antonia Zerbisias listened in to a webinar this Wednesday on the vanishing newspaper, based on the title of a new book by U.S. journalism professor Philip Meyer. Apparently Meyer has calculated the last newspaper reader will be gone by April 2040. Some excerpts: The panel, archived at http://www.mediacenter.org , brought together five [...]
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The tsunami got more media attention in six weeks than all the other world's top 10 “forgotten emergencies” did over the past year, says a new report. An excerpt from The Guardian story (reg. req'd): The Asian tsunami attracted more media attention in the first six weeks after it struck than the world's top 10 “forgotten” [...]
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I saw this mentioned at WarrenKinsella.com: The website StopLandmines.org has posted the video of an ad that was considered too graphic for Aussie TV. If you click through to it, keep in mind that is shown in it is still not as bloody as the real thing. And now, a personal story: In 1996, I worked [...]
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This story is about the tossing of a lawsuit by a U.S. judge against the manufacturers of Agent Orange, a defoliant used by the U.S. during the Vietnam War, on behalf of Vietnamese children affected by it. Some excerpts from the BBC story: … Judge Jack Weinstein ruled there was no legal basis for their claims. The [...]
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This little yarn is about how the government of Sudan got a start when it read on a U.S. Congressional website that the U.S. government had conducted nuclear (or nook-eww-leer, in the pronunciation of some senior Bush Administration officials) tests there in the 1960s. Oopsie, just a typo! An excerpt from the BBC story: The [...]
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The Criminal Code of Canada has failed to prevent crime and should be scrapped immediately, say its opponents. ”It is self-evident that last week's multiple murder tragedy was not in any way prevented or impeded by the Criminal Code, although the Criminal Code was brought into effect primarily to deal with precisely this kind of tragedy,” said Conservative [...]
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