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From the NYT: The Chinese government is restricting foreign journalists from entering Tibet and neighboring areas, and blocking some news, video and Internet reports about the protests there from appearing inside China, according to journalists working here. For the past few days, CNN, the BBC, Google News, Yahoo and YouTube have been blocked or have [...]
Tue, March 18 2008 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
From the NYT: In 2005, Starbucks looked like it was going to do for undiscovered music what it had done for the nonfat latte. The company decided to stock “Careless Love,” a CD of sophisticated pop-jazz songs by Madeleine Peyroux, who had attracted only a modest following in this country, plying her craft in small [...]
Tue, March 18 2008 » Main Page, Media, Minutiae » Comments Off
The Ontario Court of Appeal has ruled that forcing reporters to reveal their sources has to be done while considering the Charter of Rights and Freedoms' provisions on freedom of the press. In the case of Ken Peters, a Hamilton Spectator reporter cited for contempt after refusing to identify a source in a civil trial, the trial judge [...]