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In Search of Intelligence in the Multiverse—Not anywhere where Glenn Beck just happens to be

During last Tuesday’s fleeting hour, while he was interviewing the very troubled former New York congressman, Eric Massa, Glenn Beck was out of his mind. This was the first time the whining, weeping conservative talk show host sounded, sounded, (...)

11 Mar. 2010 | | Monroe Anderson

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4 Feb. 2010 | | Mark Evans

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Locking yourself behind your own subscription wall

The Internet has revolutionized the way that we look at media - and the way that it interacts with us. That’s undeniable, although some may disagree as to the extent. And in this new environment, the modern publication can’t afford to alienate (...)

1 Feb. 2010 | 1 comment | Walker Morrow

International

Naive BBC Persian Over Afghanistan and Tajikistan

I wrote this post on my Farsi blog a few days before. It had wide reaction from Farsi readers in Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Iran. A new blogger friend of mine Jad Iqbal has already translated this post on his blog for his readers. I just did little (...)

21 Jan. 2010 | 2 comments | Nasim Fekrat

Politics

Music to the ears France’s lip-synching government ministers

An all-singing, all dancing, all lip-synching video featuring government ministers of France’s ruling centre-right UMP party. It’s the latest video to create a buzz on the Internet here in France; members of the governing centre-right Union (...)

10 Dec. 2009 | 1 comment | Johnny Summerton

Politics

Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s restroom break with Nicolas Sarkozy

Dominique Strauss-Kahn takes Nicolas Sarkozy to task during a private moment. All right, so let’s end the week with the news to end all news, as reported "exclusively" (and then picked up by other French media outlets) in the weekly (...)

7 Dec. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

People

French TV helps Sting become "string" - briefly

A French television news anchor’s blooper makes British singer Sting briefly "string" Ah the delights of live television and radio. Mistakes are inevitably made: sometimes embarrassing, often amusing as long as they’re not (...)

26 Nov. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

Media

The death of Jocelyn Quivrin and the rise of the "new monsters"

French media refuses to publish pictures taken with a mobile ’phone shortly after the death of actor Jocelyn Quivrin in a car accident. The omnipresent mobile ’phone complete with camera capability can capture moments that many, and not just (...)

25 Nov. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

Arts & Entertainment

Art Deco Icons : London Transport - BBC4

I forgot to blog about this show when it was on over the weekend, but if you’re in the UK you can watch it on BBC iPlayer. "David Heathcote explores the dramatic 1930s London Transport HQ in St James’, London. When it was built in the (...)

3 nov. 2009 | | Annie Mole

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The BNP controversy

I’d just like to say a few words about the BNP controversy that’s taken over in the last few days since Nick Griffin’s appearance on Question Time. And I hope I’m not saying anything too obvious. If anyone has seen the Question (...)

27 oct. 2009 | | jultra

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Question Time with the BNP : cui bono ?

There’s been no shortage of strongly argued reactions to the BBC programme Question Time, starring the malodorous British National Party’s leader Nick Griffin. (You can still watch the whole thing online here.) We’re forcefully told (...)

26 oct. 2009 | | Brian Barder

Arts & Entertainment

Save the boobs!

This is a great campaign produced by Boobyball for the Breast Cancer awareness month, featuring MTV Canada presenter Aliya-Jasmine Sovani. * * * * * Want to donate now? Click here...

26 Oct. 2009 | | J.N. PAQUET

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Are independent bloggers an endangered species ?

Micah Sifry talks about how Atrios and Digby see the blogosphere evolving, and the rise of corporate blog entities. Is political blogging no longer a place for the individual, crusading voice ? Do you have to be part of a group blog, and ideally backed (...)

23 oct. 2009 | | Mathew Ingram

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What’s Crowdsourcing Have to Do with It ?

I enjoyed Dan Wood’s recent Forbes article entitled, The Myth of Crowdsourcing. But, his argument is confusing. Here’s the core of what he’s saying : But in the popular press, and in the minds of millions of people, the word (...)

23 oct. 2009 | | John Winsor

Media

Fighting a Losing Battle

The White House continues its crusade against Fox News Channel — but others are sitting up and taking notice. Jake Tapper : It’s escaped none of our notice that the White House has decided in the last few weeks to declare one of our sister (...)

21 oct. 2009 | | Jeff Schreiber

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Wow ! White House calls a spade a spade saying Fox news is an arm of the Republican Party ! Takes on Faux News !

White House Slams Fox News White House says fox news research arm of Republican party Once again I am going to let the links tell the story and you can hit on the one or all of them that interest you. Fox and MSNBC have been going at it for (...)

15 oct. 2009 | | James Joiner

Politics

The French Socialist party and its elephants

It’s not that often a video for a political party creates a buzz. Even though it’s perhaps still a little early to say that the parties here in France have got into full campaigning swing for next year’s regional elections, the (...)

13 Oct. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

Science & Tech

Can a Tablet Succeed ?

The rumour machine is abuzz with the prospect of Apple releasing a tablet, and there are a number of other people, most notably TechCrunch and Archos, have tablet systems either out or on the planning desk. It will be interesting to see if anyone can (...)

8 oct. 2009 | 4 comments | Geek News Central

Politics

The Beginning of the Fall of the Hondruan Military Coup

Honduran resistance to Military Coup Government

Tonight, the heroic Honduran resistance, represented by thousands of workers, peasants, women, teachers, indigenous and afro-descendent people, students, human rights activists, and people in general, is outside the Embassy of Brazil. Inside the embassy, (...)

23 Sep. 2009 | | Billie Greenwood

Society

Police suspect admits he was behind Sarkozy death threats

A 51-year-old man taken in for questioning at the weekend has reportedly admitted that he alone was behind a series of letters and death threats sent to a number of leading politicians, including the French president Nicolas Sarkozy. The suspect, Thierry (...)

23 Sep. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

Media

French reality TV’s dubious standards

As some of you might be aware, there’s a very Secret Story making its daily appearance on television screens here in France at the moment. Or the "house of deceit" as one particular contestant perhaps more accurately described it a few (...)

22 Sep. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

Local News

The tale of a French family that never went missing

The mystery of a mother and her two children who "disappeared" last week has been solved. They have turned up in the south of France where they had apparently been on holiday "taking a break" from the rest of the world. The (...)

22 Sep. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

International

Hollywood, Big 4 labels, laud WTO China ruling

The millions of dollars invested by the Korporate Kopyright Kartels to use the US trade office to boost ‘product’ in China have finally paid off. The World Trade Organisation has, “ordered China to ease some of its restrictions on the (...)

13 aoû. 2009 | | Jon Newton

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5 Ways to get to the Next Million Mozillians

Mark Surman, Executive Director of the Mozilla Foundation has been ruminating on: "how Mozilla can actively encourage large numbers of people to participate on making the web more open and awesome." For a long time I’ve been a (...)

6 Aug. 2009 | | David Eaves

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Any Argument in the Storm : Postrel Gets It Wrong on Kidney Donation

Virginia Postrel is picking a fight with the National Kidney Foundation for saying that paying organ donors would be an "affront" to unpaid donors and that it would "cheapen the gift", according to The New Yorker. Taking them on, (...)

29 jui. 2009 | | Bioethics.net

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The War to Shut Newspapers in Morocco is Not Yet Over

a cover of the weekly Almichaal titled “The Scandals of the King’s Aunts”

The Weekly ALMICHAAL is the New Victim. The list of Moroccan journalists who have been taken to courts from January 2007 up to now is too long. After Driss Ksikes and Sanaa Al-Aji (from the weekly magazine Nichane), Ahmed Benchemsi (the director of (...)

29 Jul. 2009 | | Morocco Times

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Don’t Blame Michael Jackson For All Of The Endless Media Hype And Sensationalism - Blame The Hyper Competitive MSM!

The mains stream media - newspapers, television and radio, once again went completely over the top with their coverage of the death of Michael Jackson. You will be hard pressed, even amongst Jackson fans, to find anyone who thinks that there was not (...)

9 Jul. 2009 | | Leftdog

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