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After about two months in captivity, three Romanian journalists are back on the soil of their home and native land. An excerpt from the AP story posted on CTV.ca: Reporter Marie Jeanne Ion and cameraman Sorin Miscoci, both of Prima TV, and Ovidiu Ohanesian, a reporter from the daily newspaper Romania Libera, were kidnapped in [...]
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In Saturday's Globe and Mail, editor Edward Greenspon said his paper will investigate a poll that gave the ruling B.C. Liberals much more popular support than they eventually won in the election. The poll — made public on May 13, four days before the election — was made an issue by The Tyee in a [...]
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In a statement published in his magazine's May 30 issue, Newsweek editor-in-chief Richard Smith has promised readers more tightly controlled use of anonymous sources. An excerpt from an AP story carried on CTV.ca: Two of the magazine's top editors will be assigned sole responsibility for approving the use of such sources, and the magazine will [...]
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This NYT piece talks about the U.S. media’s credibility problem, and says Tylenol — which had to deal with a cyanide poisoning crisis 20 years ago — had it easy by comparison.
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According to a story posted on the BBC website, the Beeb's journos and techs have walked off for 24 hours to protest massive job cuts proposed by management. An excerpt: Live programming on TV and radio has been seriously disrupted, with Radio 4's flagship Today replaced by special programmes. BBC employees are protesting at plans to cut [...]
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The Toronto Star's Haroon Siddiqui flays U.S. policy in the Middle East and Central Asia. Some exerpts: Who will fix the destruction unleashed by the administration when it sent the U.S. war machine abroad; killed, maimed or uprooted hundreds of thousands; violated the property, privacy, dignity and religious values of thousands picked up at random, [...]
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