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Wed, March 16 2005 » Main Page » Comments Off
George Lessard posted this to CAJ-L, where I saw it. The story details the final days of what the L.A. Times says was the troubled life of Gary Webb, reporter of the notorious Dark Alliance series in the mid-1990s. An excerpt: Webb's suicide has left friends and loved ones trying to sort through tangled feelings [...]
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This NYT piece looks at dealing with any number of issues that bring avoidable stress into one's life. And afterwards, I ask for advice on coping with one of my pet peeves! :) An excerpt: hen Seth Shepsle goes to Starbucks, he orders a “medium” because “grande” – as the coffee company calls the size, [...]
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The NYT and the Washington Post hold forth on the Bush administration's distribution of pre-made news for a sundry assortment of television stations. An excerpt from the NYT: … Too many television stations run government videos anyway, without any hint of where they came from. And while some claim they somehow stumbled accidentally into this trap, it [...]
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Well, not quite — my blog didn't get an award (pout, pout). An excerpt from the BBC story: 'Best blogs on the web' honoured Boing Boing won the coveted overall best blog prize The best of the web's blogs – online diaries or websites where people publish their thoughts – have been recognised in the [...]
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The feds have hired an NGO to help train Iraqi journalists at a facility in Lebanon. More from the CP story carried by the Winnipeg Sun: The federal government has hired a Vancouver-based agency to train people for one of the most dangerous jobs in Iraq – journalism. It's part of Canada's contribution to building [...]
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