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From the Guardian: Websites being used to disseminate propaganda by al-Qaida appear to have come under systematic cyber-attack, forcing the closure of three for well over a month and fuelling speculation that governments are targeting them in a shadowy new front in the “war on terror”. Al-Ekhlas, al-Buraq and al-Firdaws, all linked to al-Fajr – [...]
Tue, October 28 2008 » * Big Picture Stuff, Main Page » Comments Off
From Patricia Best's blog at globeandmail.com: Conrad Black is enjoying a flourishing journalistic renaissance from the confines of his Florida prison – though he's not making money from it because that would be against U.S. prison rules. He's made two noteworthy authorial appearances on a hot, new website called The Daily Beast, run by former [...]
Tue, October 28 2008 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
From the Globe and Mail: Global Television in British Columbia paid $5,000 to a charity to interview Graham McMynn, the son of a wealthy businessman, who was held in captivity for eight days. Most Canadian media outlets refuse to pay for interviews, although British tabloids and broadsheets pay significant sums. A financial relationship between a [...]