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On Tuesday, The Guardian — the progressive British news organization — launched GuardianAmerica.com. From The Guardian news release: Alan Rusbridger, Editor of the Guardian, said: “There is clearly a demand in the US for the Guardian perspective on global news and comment. Under the editorship of the talented political commentator and journalist Michael Tomasky, Guardian [...]
Thu, October 25 2007 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
If you pop into the New York Times's new building, you'll see banks of small screens, 560 in all, flashing 156 years' worth of words and phrases from the venerable newspaper. From the NYT: Since The Times moved in June from its longtime home on West 43rd Street in Manhattan to its new, almost completed [...]
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From the blurb to a Naomi Klein commentary in the Guardian: Finance journalists have attacked my book, but I remain devoted to their papers. After all, they supplied the facts I used. The book, of course, is The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. From the Guardian: No one took it quite as hard [...]
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From the BBC: Air pollution in Beijing will not significantly improve before next year's Olympic Games, a United Nations report suggests. In some cases, pollution is said to be more than three times the safe limits set by the World Health Organization. The report seems to contradict claims from Beijing Olympic officials that air quality [...]
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From the BBC: Saipov believed he was safe in Kyrgyzstan A prominent journalist and an editor of an Uzbek-language newspaper has been shot dead in the Kyrgyz city of Osh near the border with Uzbekistan. Police have confirmed that 26-year-old Alisher Saipov died in a gun attack. Police say that they are questioning witnesses and [...]