But Fox News keeps its spot
Drudge Report Oct 31, 08 12:18 PM CDT
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The Obama campaign has kicked reporters from the New York Post, Washington Times, and Dallas Morning News off its campaign plane, and as the Drudge Report was quick to note, all three papers endorsed McCain. An Obama spokesman confirmed the report, but said it was not politically motivated, noting that Fox News has retained its spot.
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Tales From the Crypt takes a swipe at censorship with Palin cover
New York Daily News Oct 21, 08 9:11 AM CDT
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Pop culture can’t get enough of Sarah Palin right now: The vice-presidential candidate will grace the cover of Tales From the Crypt ’s next issue, reports the New York Daily News . In a swipe at Palin's book-banning inquiries as Wasilla mayor, she brandishes a hockey stick at three of the horror comic's ghoulish regulars, saying "Didn't we get rid of you guys in the '50s?"
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GLOSSIES
Beijing completely misses 'crass value of cultivating the press'
Atlantic Monthly Oct 16, 08 5:00 PM CDT
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It’s no secret that China is moving into position as a global superpower, writes James Fallows in the Atlantic , and this only further highlights its leaders’ baffling inability to understand how the country is viewed from the outside—and how to change those opinions for the better. Officials just don’t understand “the crass value of cultivating the press,” he writes.
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Sheik urges fatwa on owners of channels
with 'corrupt beliefs'
Guardian (UK) Sep 12, 08 4:45 PM CDT
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The highest judge in Saudi Arabia says “it is permissible” to murder owners of satellite TV networks that broadcast questionable material during Ramadan, the Guardian reports. When a caller to his radio show asked about channels featuring “bad programs,” Sheik Saleh al-Lihedan responded, “What does the owner of these networks think, when he provides seduction, obscenity and vulgarity? … Certainly it’s permissible to kill them.”
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Party says Palin's censorship questions were hypothetical
Associated Press Sep 12, 08 10:37 AM CDT
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Sarah Palin’s inquiries into book-banning were hypothetical and entirely appropriate, a McCain campaign spokesman said today, trying to clamp down on the growing online controversy. As mayor of Wasilla, Palin on three occasions asked the head of the library if she’d have a problem with banning books. The librarian said she would, and Palin soon fired her, saying she didn’t feel she had her “full support.”
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Web-based game, where aim is to 'wipe out the Muslim race,' hard to regulate
Guardian (UK) Sep 11, 08 3:24 PM CDT
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Muslim Massacre , a Web-based game where players aim to “wipe out the Muslim race,” has earned widespread condemnation from Islamic groups, the Guardian reports. In the game, the US has declared war on Islam and the unnamed “American hero” slaughters terrorists and civilians alike to face Osama bin Laden, Muhammed—and ultimately Allah.
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Activist shot as he
sat in cop car
after arrest: officials
New York Times Sep 1, 08 6:00 AM CDT
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A Russian journalist known for his opposition views was fatally shot in the head after his arrest at an airport yesterday, reports the New York Tiimes . He was shot as he sat in a police car on his way to interrogation, according to officials. Authorities labeled the death of Magomed Yevloyev accidental and are opening an investigation. But human rights advocates called the shooting suspicious and expressed concern about a new era of crackdowns on dissent in Russia.
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Western companies line up to advertise on propaganda network
New York Times Aug 22, 08 9:01 AM CDT
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This year's Olympic opening ceremonies, perhaps the most watched television event in history, were a huge programming coup for CCTV, one of the main propaganda conduits for the Chinese government. CCTV has a larger audience than every major TV station in the US and Europe combined, writes the New York Times . And global companies seeking Chinese customers are beginning to take notice.
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Compilation was offered free to Olympians
Daily Telegraph (UK) Aug 21, 08 5:10 PM CDT
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The Chinese government has blocked access to Apple’s iTunes music store for providing free downloads of a pro-Tibet compilation to Olympic athletes, the Telegraph reports. Users reported a blackout Monday, shortly after the Campaign for Tibet notes that 40 Olympians had downloaded the record. Only the Chinese iTunes store is blocked, however—people in China can access other countries' stores with foreign credit cards.
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analysis
Citizen journalist is forced to leave Beijing, but he plans to return
Globe and Mail Aug 14, 08 8:06 PM CDT
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Twitter gets a bad rap for its often less-than-substantive musings, but every now and then the service proves its "true potential" as an Internet tool, writes Mathew Ingram in the Toronto Globe and Mail . Case in point: When a Chinese citizen journalist recently traveled to Beijing, the authorities hustled him out of the city on false pretenses. Fellow Twitterers picked up his story and translated his posts.
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Writers say Google allowed unwarranted freeze of their accounts
New York Sun Aug 5, 08 7:25 PM CDT
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A rash of bloggers running anti-Obama sites are charging that Google took away their soapboxes, the New York Sun reports. Many of their blogs were temporarily suspended, likely after being flagged as spam by Obama supporters. Google reactivated the conservative blogs the next day, but those involved are not satisfied with the company’s apparent lack of safeguards.
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OPINION
Awarding Olympics to 'dictatorial regime' was 'drastic mistake'
Der Spiegel Aug 5, 08 4:40 PM CDT
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As the Beijing Games draw near, journalists are worrying about the Chinese government's handling of a swarm of international reporters in an otherwise heavily censored society. Der Spiegel compiles commentaries from varying German sources, all of which agree that the decision to award China the 2008 Olympics was misguided at best.
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Sites deemed objectionable blocked, despite promises
BBC Jul 30, 08 10:22 AM CDT
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Journalists covering the Olympic games in Beijing will not be allowed access to websites deemed objectionable by the Chinese government, the BBC reports, in spite of promises from the IOC that Internet access would be unfettered. Blocked sites include pages related to the Falun Gong spiritual group, as well as human rights organizations like Amnesty International.
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Director's Darfur protest stunt may run afoul of Beijing leadership
Hollywood Reporter Jul 18, 08 4:33 PM CDT
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Steven Spielberg or his films could be banned from China under the new rules barring artists seen as a threat to national sovereignty, the Hollywood Reporter notes. Spielberg rankled Chinese leadership when he publicly withdrew from an artistic advisory board for the Beijing Olympics in protest of the nation’s trade arrangements with Sudan.
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