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This is an interesting and potentially worrisome decision (more later; gotta go to work). This California judge ruled that the right to protect trade secrets trumped a journalist's right to protect the confidentiality of sources. He didn't address a topic many wanted answered: Whether bloggers should be considered journalists. An excerpt from the BBC story: [...]
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According to a new report, you had a 73 per cent chance of hearing the views of Fox News's on-air editorial staff in that cable news station's reportage on Iraq last year — way more than the other two main cable channels. More from the Washington Post article: In covering the Iraq war last year, 73 percent [...]
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The Three Amigos are going to launch a version of Metro, the free paper aimed at commuters, in Vancouver. And there's plans to go beyond that. in the coming years. Some excerpts from The Globe and Mail article: On Monday, the companies launched Metro Vancouver, where 145,000 copies will be distributed throughout the city. The [...]
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The Toronto Star's Thomas Walkom takes a skeptical look at Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty's claims of his province being sucked dry by Ottawa. Some excerpts: Dalton McGuinty is playing a dangerous and unconvincing game. Dangerous because hammering away at the so-called $23 billion gap — the difference between what Ontarians pay into Canada and what [...]
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This NYT piece looks at how liberal bloggers are trying to build relationships with the MSM to see more of their news filter up. Some excerpts: ven as online pundits criticize traditional news organizations as slow, biased and technologically challenged, a group of bloggers is trying to use old-fashioned telephone conference calls to share their ideas [...]
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This BBC piece looks at the efforts of the new administration of Viktor Yushchenko to put the cronyism and corruption of old-style Ukrainian politics behind. Some excerpts: Orange clean-up looms in Ukraine By Marina DenysenkoBBC Ukrainian Service “My government will not take bribes. My government will not steal”, Ukraine's new liberal President Viktor Yushchenko proclaimed [...]
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This BBC Online article looks at China's growing military power and resultant self-confidence. It was published Saturday, but has already been overstripped by events. China's national legislature voted almost unanimously Monday to approve the use of force against Taiwan if it tries to pursue formal independence. That cheery notion aside, here's an excerpt from the BBC [...]
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This NYT story explores an issue that drives newspaper publishers nuts: While people are willing to spend 99 cents to download 50 Cent, they won't spend 50 cents to read news online. That's not quite accurate, but I was going for cleverness. Call it blogtistic licence. :) Anyway, an excerpt: Newspaper Web sites have been [...]
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