Paper accused of concealing candidate's links to Palestinian scholar
Los Angeles Times Oct 29, 08 3:14 AM CDT
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The McCain campaign is accusing the Los Angeles Tim es of shirking its journalistic duty by sitting on a tape of Barack Obama speaking at a 2003 dinner in honor of a Palestinian-American scholar and activist. The Times —which wrote about the tape in an April article on Obama's ties to Chicago-area Jews and Palestinians—says it is merely keeping its promise to its confidential source.
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Objects spotted near Istanbul during 4-month stretch 'serious challenge to science'
Sun (UK) Oct 21, 08 4:51 PM CDT
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Video taken of strange objects in the night sky over Turkey has been deemed authentic—well, at least by UFO researchers. A night watchman shot the video over multiple nights earlier this year, and it shows hovering craft and strange constellations of lights, the Sun reports. A self-described expert who verified the tape says “physical forms of UFOs and their metallic structures are clearly noticeable.”
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'It didn't make sense' until he heard tape
Los Angeles Times Sep 18, 08 3:03 PM CDT
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The first Las Vegas detective to investigate OJ Simpson’s alleged involvement in an armed robbery last September said he was initially flabbergasted at the idea, the Los Angeles Times reports. “It didn't make sense,” Andy Caldwell testified yesterday at Simpson’s trial. Caldwell was soon swayed by surveillance video and the stories of two memorabilia dealers who said they had been threatened with guns.
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Trouble communicating leads to frustration, uncooperative behavior
Chicago Tribune Jul 28, 08 8:30 PM CDT
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Even after they lose the ability to communicate easily, Alzheimer’s disease patients remain aware of the world around them and know when they're being talked down to, a study shows. Video evidence suggests patients are twice as likely to accept help from caregivers, and to not shut down or become distressed, when addressed not as children but as adults, the Chicago Tribune reports.
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Storm chaser allegedly doctored another man's old footage into his own
Associated Press Jul 10, 08 8:58 AM CDT
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The Associated Press has pulled a video described as depicting a tornado that hit Nebraska last weekend after a storm chaser claimed that it was faked. After Andy Fabel sold the clip to the AP, which passed it along to 2,000 websites, another man noticed similarities between it and his own footage of a twister that hit Kansas 4 years ago.
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Footage shows them hugging and crying on board helicopter
Associated Press Jul 4, 08 8:38 PM CDT
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Video recorded during the rescue of 15 rebel hostages shows them filing grim-faced toward the helicopter that would fly them to safety, then hugging one another and crying with joy after they are aloft and realize they are free, the AP reports. Watch the video on the MSNBC link below.
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'99 clip shot at NYC drug hangout is blast from supermom's sordid past
Sun (UK) May 19, 08 12:35 PM CDT
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A drug-filled home video from 1999 of then-23-year-old Angelina Jolie babbling about sadomasochistic sex and killing her pets has surfaced, the Sun reports. In the video, the noted humanitarian and mother of four describes how she killed her mouse when she dyed it blue and gave her hamster pneumonia when she brought it into the shower.
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Francis exploited
her with booze,
call girl claims
People Apr 28, 08 8:13 PM CDT
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The call girl who once serviced New York's governor is now charging $10 million—in a lawsuit against Girls Gone Wild creator Joe Francis, People reports. Ashley Alexandra Dupré alleges that Francis persuaded her to be filmed topless when she was underage and exploited her name and image for profit.
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Video surfaces two months after his disappearance
Associated Press Apr 19, 08 8:36 AM CDT
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In a video aired today on an Arab channel, Pakistan’s missing ambassador to Afghanistan says he was kidnapped two months ago by Taliban militants, AP reports. In the brief clip, Tariq Azizuddin, seated on the ground with his driver and bodyguard in front of three armed masked men, says he has “lived comfortably” and adds that Pakistani officials in Iran, China and at home should comply with Taliban demands.
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Market expected to explode as media companies retool
USA Today Apr 4, 08 3:12 PM CDT
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TV networks, major news organizations, and independent producers are all scrambling to create Web videos that will let them snag a portion of the ad dollars flowing online. Ad spending on Internet videos will grow to $4.3 billion by 2011, say researchers—a 455% increase over today. "It's growing faster than any other advertising category," an NBC Universal exec tells USA Today .
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Expect more options for videos soon—including watching them on TiVo
MIT Technology Review Mar 14, 08 1:12 PM CDT
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YouTube is opening up to software developers, the company said Wednesday. Programmers can create new interfaces to play videos, for example, or let users upload clips to YouTube directly from other sites. And later this year, viewers will be able to watch YouTube videos via TiVo. The open platform won’t create revenue, Technology Review reports, but YouTube hopes it will attract more users.
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Jobs plans video push, but Hollywood doesn't plan to give him any special deals
BusinessWeek Jan 11, 08 3:45 PM CST
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Steve Jobs wants to take the world of video entertainment by storm, but Hollywood and the cable companies aren’t scared, reports BusinessWeek . Apple is planning an iTunes movie rental service and is well on its way to sealed deals with four major movie studios, but it’s not getting any special breaks. New releases will rent for $3.99, the same as Comcast on-demand video.
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Internet phenomenon scores big in 2007
ABC News Dec 27, 07 2:54 PM CST
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With small-screen stars ranging from ditzy beauty queens to potty-mouthed pint-sized landlords, Americans increasingly gathered around the YouTube watercooler in 2007. They racked up 100 billion views on various video sites, ABC News reports. Cultural commentators liken the phenomenon to cavemen swapping tall tales around campfires, but 78% of us do it at work.
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Dutch fireworks-safety ads draws outrage
Guardian (UK) Dec 24, 07 12:28 PM CST
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Dutch fireworks-safety ads spoofing Islamic terrorists have drawn criticism for their light take on suicide bombings and portrayal of negative Muslim stereotypes, the Guardian reports. The group depicted in the government-sponsored ads—LAAF, or the “Liberation Army Against Freedom”—is seen getting fireworks delivered as illicit arms, holing up in a cave, and practicing improper firework safety in their efforts to show "our true power.”
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