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John Sweeney has been working on an item about Scientology for the BBC show Panorama. It sounds like he hasn't had an easy time of it: … Start asking questions and you see a different face of Scientology. While making our BBC Panorama film “Scientology and Me” I have been shouted at, spied on, had [...]
Mon, May 14 2007 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
The BBC reports that the United States is taking a position on a climate change statement by the G8 that, in my reading, puts the U.S. at odds with the recent IPCC report on mitigating climate change. An excerpt: Washington objects to the draft's targets to keep the global temperature rise below 2C this century [...]
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From the BBC: Hidden Camera Jihad is a pastiche of popular US TV shows An Iraqi satellite TV channel has started to air Hidden Camera Jihad, a video compilation of attacks on US-led coalition forces in Iraq that has appeared on internet message boards since late 2006. Al-Zawraa TV, which is known for airing videos [...]
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The Wall Street Journal is considered by analysts to be only marginally profitable. That makes it a millstone around the neck of Dow Jones & Company., and that's making it easier for a shark like News Corp. to come circling around. An excerpt from the NYT story: Dow Jones & Company, which owns the newspaper, [...]