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LANGLEY, VA—A report released Tuesday by the CIA's Office of the Inspector General revealed that the CIA has mistakenly obscured hundreds of thousands of pages of critical intelligence information with black highlighters. CIA Director Porter Goss. According to the report, sections of the documents— “almost invariably the most crucial passages”—are marred by an indelible black [...]
Wed, November 30 2005 » Main Page, Minutiae » Comments Off
As this NYT story says, the business interests of The Grateful Dead are clashing with the band's heritage as the original open-source jam band. An excerpt: The band recently asked the operators of the popular Live Music Archive (archive.org) to make the concert recordings – a staple of Grateful Dead fandom – available only for [...]
Wed, November 30 2005 » Main Page, Minutiae » Comments Off
Writer Michael Massing sums up several currents of influence on the U.S. mainstream media in The End of News? a two-part essay in the New York Review of Books (H/T to Zerby). Part One deals with the effects of a right-wing attack-dog media, the Bush administration's own efforts to control the news (Armstrong Williams, Kenneth Tomlinson [...]