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The Globe and Mail's Jeffrey Simpson suggests a tweaking of what is defined as “news.” From the commentary: (firewalled for non-Globe subscribers) Defining “news” is a tricky business, given readers' tastes. Editors and writers, after all, must cater to these tastes or they will be out of business. With severe pressures on the newspaper business, [...]
Fri, July 27 2007 » Main Page, Media » 8 Comments
Salon's Andrew O'Hehir: If everybody in this polarized country could be convinced to sit down tonight and watch the documentaries “No End in Sight” and “The Devil Came on Horseback,” we might pull our troops out of Iraq next week and send them to Darfur the week after that. But then, like every other idea [...]
Fri, July 27 2007 » Film, Main Page » Comments Off
From the July 25 BBC story: Support for suicide bombings against civilians has fallen sharply across the Muslim world since 2002, a major survey has suggested. However, 70% of Palestinians interviewed said they believed such attacks were sometimes justifiable. The Global Opinion Trends survey, by the US-based Pew Research Centre, polled 45,000 people in 47 [...]
Fri, July 27 2007 » * Big Picture Stuff, Main Page » Comments Off
Alistair Burnett, editor of the BBC's The World Tonight, thinks it might be a good idea to not refer to the current chill in British-Russian relations as a “crisis.” From The Editors blog post: Crisis is a word much loved by journalists but has it become so overused that it has lost its meaning? It's been [...]