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From the BBC: About 200 youngsters caused damage put at £20,000 to a family home (in Houghton-le-Spring, County Durham in the north of England near Newcastle Upon Tyne) after a party organised on a website. Police said a teenage girl used the social networking site MySpace to advertise the party while her parents were away [...]
Fri, April 13 2007 » Main Page, Media, Minutiae » Comments Off
From an April 7 commentary in the Toronto Star by former editor John Honderich: First, Rwanda was too poor for anyone in the West to care. Second, I hearken back to the comment of Kofi Annan, later UN secretary-general, who remarked that many Western nations were reticent to intervene in Rwanda because they didn't feel [...]
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CBS News had to apologize for a Katie Couric video essay that had essentially been a rip-off of a Wall Street Journal article. Quick question: Is it really a Katie Couric essay if it was written by a CBS producer? Some excerpts: CBS has fired the producer who wrote the piece for Ms. Couric, and [...]
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This NYT piece looks at what your choice in vehicle says about your sexual orientation (which may explain the ejaculatory nature of some ads these days — get your boost!!). An excerpt: RON GEREN, an actor in Los Angeles, commutes to auditions and jobs throughout Southern California in a sleek black Mazda MX-5 Miata convertible. [...]
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U.S. talk radio knob Don Imus got canned Wednesday for his disparaging remarks about black players on the Rutgers womens' basketball team. The NYT's David Carr looks at how today's news media realities doomed Imus (who should have been doomed in any event). Some excerpts: OLD MEETS NEW Mr. Imus is an old-school radio guy [...]