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Attentive regular visitors to this site might notice a subtle change to this blog's title — It's now Bill Doskoch: Media, BPS*, Film and Minutiae. The BPS stands for Big Picture Stuff. I thought that was a better category for much of what I like to note on this site: Iraq, the future of oil, [...]
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The Beeb Online is asking people to write stories for them — yet another sign the citizen journalism beast is rising. Sayeth the Beeb: Are you a witness to major, or lesser known, news events? Have you seen an incident, or an event we missed, that you would like to tell us about? Sayeth the [...]
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An excerpt from the NYT story: After the chairman of CBS, Leslie Moonves, announced last month that he was canceling the Wednesday spinoff of the Sunday program because of low ratings, the news division has been struggling to relocate about 75 producers, editors, assistants and others who worked on the weekday broadcast; at least 40 [...]
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Some excerpts from the BBC Online story: “It's an enormous exercise in completely indefensible voyeurism just to be here,” said Matt Taibbi, a writer from Rolling Stone. “What this is all about is really just a whole bunch of men and women sitting here waiting for somebody to say the word masturbate in a courtroom. [...]
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Some excerpts from the CP story carried on CTV.ca: Dan Burnett says the decade-old precedent was supposed to put the constitutionally enshrined right of free expression on the same legal footing as an accused's right to a fair trial. But a legal culture that subordinates public access to court proceedings remains pervasive, he says. “I [...]