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The Globe and Mail's Lawrence Martin offers some thoughts on how the media should handle terrorism and security stories. From The Globe and Mail: (must be a subscriber or Globe Insider) The media cannot be in the business of censoring news. To cut off the terrorists' supply of oxygen, to deprive them of headlines, would [...]
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From the AP story on CTV.ca: A cigarette lighter and paper shredder helped make Mika Brzezinski the symbol of television journalism's guilt trip about Paris Hilton. Brzezinski used both to destroy a script calling for her to read about Hilton's release from jail on MSNBC's “Morning Joe'' program recently. Part serious, part an act, it [...]
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From the AP story on CTV.ca: Katie Couric says the move to CBS would have been less appealing if she had known she'd be doing the more traditional CBS Evening News broadcast that she anchors now. “People are very unforgiving and very resistant to change,” Couric said in an interview with New York magazine. “The [...]
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From the Guardian: Allies of Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, have accused the media of trying to depose him in a “creeping coup”, raising fears of a fresh clampdown on opposition newspapers and websites. The accusation, from the president's allies, coincides with disclosures that Mr Ahmadinejad has authorised aides to establish a special team to counter [...]
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From the NYT: With his picture splashed across the front pages of British newspapers, Mohammed Asha, a doctor in the National Health Service, over the last few days became the human face of a suspected plot to bomb a London nightclub and an attack at Glasgow Airport. According to the British police, the photos should [...]
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The Toronto Star's David Olive unravels the mystery. Actually, it's not so mysterious. From the Star: As Rupert Murdoch and the Bancroft family, which has controlled Journal parent Dow Jones & Co. since 1902, inch toward agreement on a $5 billion (U.S.) purchase of Dow Jones by Murdoch's News Corp. empire, it's telling that there [...]