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From the BBC: Dink's murder has provoked widespread shock in Turkey A prominent Turkish-Armenian editor, convicted in 2005 of insulting Turkish identity, has been shot dead outside his newspaper's office in Istanbul. Crowds of Hrant Dink's colleagues and supporters gathered at the scene, chanting their outrage at his murder. Dink was given a six-month suspended [...]
Fri, January 19 2007 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
Wow: Bill O’Reilly and Stephen Colbert, together on the Colbert Report. Who would have thought that would be so lame? Now, Fox News’s The O’Reilly Factor was much spicier! Host Bill O’Reilly introduced the segment by saying: “… In the Culture War segment tonight, The Colbert Report, a very sucessful show on Comedy Central, that owes [...]
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From the Daily Show: Ever-popular footage of TV reporters getting tasered with 50,000 volts to see if it indeed hurts:
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I got a phishing email purporting to be from the Royal Bank of Canada (I'm not a client of that bank). Over the years, I've received dozens of these things, but never actually checked them out. This time, I did. That email pointed to this URL: http://www.missmissouri.org/members/pro/rbunxcgiF6=1&F7=IB blah, blah, blah … ) The site is [...]
Fri, January 19 2007 » Main Page, Minutiae » Comments Off
No second chance for Stephen Colbert at the next White House Correspondents Association dinner in April after his skewering of Dubya at the 2006 one. Instead, the dinner will be going with Rich Little (?!?!) as the featured entertainer — thus ending rumours of Mr. Little's demise. Here's a news release about the 2006 dinner. Methinks they [...]