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New Yorker launches tool by Aaron Swartz to protect leaks

by News Sources 05.19.2013

Salon: This week has been a disquieting one for journalists concerned about protecting their sources. The revelation that the Justice Department had been spying on AP reporters’ phone records, although it came as no surprise to those attuned to this government’s attitude to First Amendment protections, reinforced the importance of enabling the unsurveilled free-flow of [...]

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Video — Boston: When the media gets it wrong

by News Sources 04.28.2013
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For the media, soda matters more than civil rights in New York City

by News Sources 03.26.2013

Blake Zeff writes: In New York City, Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s NYPD is stopping large numbers of innocent people walking down the street each day — questioning them as to their whereabouts and invasively frisking their bodies in a hunt for weapons and drugs. The stops are almost entirely (nearly nine in ten) targeting young black [...]

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Woodward hysteria

by News Sources 03.01.2013

Since Bob Woodward has managed to make himself the center of attention in Washington this week (yet again), I might as well say it — just in case anyone wondered: No, he’s no relation of mine. Glenn Greenwald writes: Earlier this month, the Pentagon announced that it would deploy “only” one aircraft carrier in the [...]

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Mudoch’s plan to steal the presidency and install Petraeus

by News Sources 12.21.2012

Carl Bernstein writes: So now we have it: what appears to be hard, irrefutable evidence of Rupert Murdoch’s ultimate and most audacious attempt – thwarted, thankfully, by circumstance – to hijack America’s democratic institutions on a scale equal to his success in kidnapping and corrupting the essential democratic institutions of Great Britain through money, influence [...]

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Weasel words that politicians use to obscure terrible truths

by News Sources 10.15.2012

Patrick Cockburn writes: “Never believe anything until it is officially denied,” is a useful saying, advising scepticism towards whatever the government claims to be doing. This is the right mental attitude for any journalist or observer of the political scene. But for sniffing out official or journalistic mendacity, evasion and ignorance, a good guide is [...]

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Rupert Murdoch pressured me over Europe, says former British PM

by News Sources 06.12.2012

The Guardian reports: Sir John Major has claimed Rupert Murdoch demanded his government change its policy on Europe or his papers would oppose him at the 1997 general election. The former Conservative prime minister told the Leveson inquiry on Tuesday that Murdoch delivered the ultimatum at a private meeting with the News Corporation founder on [...]

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Video: Listening in at the Leveson Inquiry

by News Sources 06.02.2012
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A tall tale about U.S. commandos parachuting into North Korea

by Paul Woodward 05.29.2012

Here’s how the story began yesterday. Reporting for The Diplomat, David Axe wrote: U.S. Special Forces have been parachuting into North Korea to spy on Pyongyang’s extensive network of underground military facilities. That surprising disclosure, by a top U.S. commando officer, is a reminder of America’s continuing involvement in the “cold war” on the Korean [...]

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The listener who made talk radio

by Attention to the Unseen 05.19.2012

Gideon Haigh writes: Studs Terkel was in a buoyant mood in the spring of 1963 when he welcomed Marlon Brando onto his popular Chicago radio program. He had just won the Prix Italia for his celebrated documentary of nuclear dread, Born to Live; he was shortly to record passengers on board the Freedom Train to [...]

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Rebekah Brooks to be charged with perverting the course of justice

by News Sources 05.15.2012

The Guardian reports: Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of News International, is to be charged over allegations that she tried to conceal evidence from detectives investigating phone hacking and alleged bribes to public officials. Brooks, one of the most high-profile figures in the newspaper industry, will be charged later on Tuesday with three counts [...]

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Murdoch facing new challenge as U.S. senator contacts investigators over hacking

by News Sources 05.02.2012

The Guardian reports: Rupert Murdoch’s global media empire is facing a challenge on a new front in the billowing phone-hacking scandal after a powerful US Senate committee opened direct contact with British investigators in an attempt to find out whether News Corporation has broken American laws. Jay Rockefeller, chairman of the Senate committee on commerce, [...]

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U.K. lawmakers: Rupert Murdoch unfit to lead News Corp

by News Sources 05.01.2012

The Associated Press reports: News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch must take responsibility for serious failings that caused Britain’s tabloid phone hacking scandal, lawmakers said Tuesday in a scathing report — as a narrow majority also insisted the tycoon was unfit to lead his global media empire. In a report on the malpractice at Murdoch’s now [...]

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The things that Anthony Shadid taught me

by News Sources 02.17.2012

Thanassis Cambanis writes: Anthony Shadid never seemed to be in a hurry. If you needed him, or simply wanted his company, he would linger to chat and fix you with a gaze that defined undivided attention. He gave the impression that nothing was more important to him than whomever he happened to be speaking to, [...]

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Remembering Anthony Shadid

by News Sources 02.17.2012

Quil Lawrence writes: I met Anthony Shadid on a ruined airstrip in western Afghanistan in the winter of 2001-’02. He was sporting a beard and longer hair in those days that made him look a little like a crusading Arab warrior. We spoke briefly and exchanged a few bits of useful news about the place. [...]

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Remembering Anthony Shadid: In Assad’s Syria, there is no imagination

by News Sources 02.17.2012

On November 8, 2011, Anthony Shadid wrote: The House of Assad evokes an imperial sense of power, or at least its trappings, with iconography that one scholar described as infused with “laudatory slogans and sempiternal images.” But my first impression of Rami Makhlouf, President Bashar al-Assad’s cousin and one-time confidante, was of his unassuming quality. [...]

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Remembering Anthony Shadid: In Iraq — A boy who was ‘like a flower’

by News Sources 02.17.2012

From Baghdad on March 30, 2003, Anthony Shadid wrote: On a cold, concrete slab, a mosque caretaker washed the body of 14-year-old Arkan Daif for the last time. With a cotton swab dipped in water, he ran his hand across Daif’s olive corpse, dead for three hours but still glowing with life. He blotted the [...]

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New York Times loses an indispensable correspondent

by News Sources 02.16.2012

The New York Times reports: Anthony Shadid, a gifted newspaper correspondent whose graceful dispatches for both The New York Times and The Washington Post covered nearly two decades of Middle East conflict and turmoil, died, apparently of an asthma attack, on Thursday while on a reporting assignment in eastern Syria. Tyler Hicks, a Times photographer [...]

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Is this how Newsweek hopes to get raised from the dead?

by Paul Woodward 02.12.2012

Newsweek’s current cover looks like a promotion for a Glenn Beck special: The War on Christians. No doubt the magazine’s editors thought they could get away with such a provocative headline because the byline lends it a token of authority. Were this declaration to come from Beck or anyone of his ilk, it would be [...]

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The News Corp hacking saga

by News Sources 01.07.2012
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