2 western journalists killed in syria amid escalating violence in homs
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as syria039s government intensified its assault on the city of homs wednesday activists said more than 70 people had been killed -- including an american reporter working for the british sunday times and a french photojournalist tim ewart and jonathan miller of independent television news report

crosstalk on murdoch: voicemailgate
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will murdoch039s media empire survive the blow has this media scandal really raised many eyebrows or has it come as no surprise given murdoch039s reputation and the difficulties of running a media business does it undermine murdoch039s business model and what should be done to encourage media responsibility ct-ing with thaddeus russell shawn powers tony pedersonct on fb: wwwfacebookcomcrosstalkrulez

the rum diary -- fresh blood
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http:wwwrumdiarythemoviecomhttp:wwwfacebookcomrumdiarymoviehttp:wwwtwittercomfilmdistrictin theaters october 28 2011 based on the debut novel by hunter s thompson quotthe rum diaryquot tells the increasingly unhinged story of itinerant journalist paul kemp johnny depp tiring of the noise and madness of new york and the crushing conventions of late eisenhower-era america kemp travels to the pristine island of puerto rico to write for a local newspaper the san juan star run by downtrodden editor lotterman richard jenkins adopting the rum-soaked life of the island paul soon becomes obsessed with chenault amber heard the wildly attractive connecticut-born fiance of sanderson aaron eckhart sanderson a businessman involved in shady property development deals is one of a growing number of american entrepreneurs who are determined to convert puerto rico into a capitalist paradise in service of the wealthy when kemp is recruited by sanderson to write favorably about his latest unsavory scheme the journalist is presented with a choice: to use his words for the corrupt businessmen039s financial benefit or use them to take the bastards down

wikileaks threat - glenn greenwald w cenk
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cenk uygur speaks with glenn greenwald of saloncom on how he was specifically targeted in an anti-wikileaks sabotage and disinformation plan

mediabistrocom: jobs classes community and news for media professionals
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jobs and recruiting for media professionals in journalism on-line content book publishing tv radio pr graphic design photography and advertising

global pulse: haiti in the media: compassion vs showboating 1292010
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january 29 2010 despite the epic nature of the disaster in haiti this overview of worldwide news coverage of the earthquake reveals that media still found time to commend their nation039s rescuers promote their own star journalists and even get in some digs at the us while the coverage raised awareness and donations for devastated haiti these clips from media around the world show a fine line between compassion and self-promotion while thousands go without food or shelter this episode also includes an interview with the new republic039s senior editor noam scheibersources: kbs south korea al jazeera english qatar rt russia tv5 france once noticias mexico cnn us cbs us abc us fox us the new republic us health news review usglobal pulse is a fast-moving and informative television and web series that helps you navigate the news of the world by comparing and contrasting tv news reports see all the episodes of global pulse at http:linktvorgglobalpulse

rmr: scientists gagged
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kent cites journalists as source of problem

watch rupert murdoch say sorry dowler family statement - notw phone hacking new
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rupert murdoch has apologised personally to milly dowler039s family over claims the murdered girl039s voicemails were accessed illegally by the news of the world click the link below to subscribe to the 039news of the world phone hacking039 youtube channel http:wwwyoutubecomsubscription_centerannotation_id=annotation_732456ampampadd_user=notwphonehackingampampfeature=ivfor upto date news on the hacking scandal follow me on twitter http:twittercomnotw_hack_newsit is alleged the sunday tabloid hacked into the teenager039s mobile after she was abducted in 2002 when rebekah brooks was editormessages were deleted to make room for more recordings it is claimed and this gave the family false hope that she was still alivemrs brooks has resigned as news international chief executive after coming under increasing pressure since the allegations about milly039s phone emerged a couple of weeks agomrs brooks denies any knowledge of the alleged wrongdoingmr murdoch has also written an apology over the phone hacking scandal which will appear in national newspapers on saturdayhe had called the meeting with the dowlers and the family039s lawyer mark lewis at a london hotelspeaking afterwards about the milly claims mr murdoch told reporters: quoti was appalled about what had happened and i apologisequotmr lewis said: quothe mr murdoch was humbled to give a full and sincere apology to the dowler family the dowler family told him that his papers should lead the way to set the standards of honesty and decency in the field and not what had gone on before at the end of the day actions are going to speak louder than wordsquotmr lewis also said mr murdoch quotapologised many timesquotfriday 15th july 2011

piers morgan row with louise mensch over claims morgan hacked phones hot hot hot
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piers morgan row with louise mensch over calim morgan hacked phonesclick the link below to subscribe to the 039news of the world phone hacking039 youtube channel http:wwwyoutubecomsubscription_centerannotation_id=annotation_732456ampampadd_user=notwphonehackingampampfeature=ivfor upto date news on the hacking scandal follow me on twitter http:twittercomnotw_hack_newspiers morgan host of cnn039s quotpiers morgan tonightquot and a former editor of two british tabloid newspapers on tuesday called a british lawmaker039s allegations that he participated in phone hacking quotnonsensequotmorgan said he may have been a victim of hacking but was not a perpetratorlouise mensch a conservative member of parliament on the culture media and sport select committee made the allegations during a hearing before the committee tuesdaylawmakers are investigating claims that news corp039s news of the world tabloid hacked phones and that journalists paid police for confidential information the claims have led news corp controlled by media baron rupert murdoch to shut down the paperms mensch said: quotpiers morgan who is now a celebrity anchor at cnn who do not appear to have asked him any questions at all about phone hacking is a former editor of the daily mirror he said in his book 039the insider039 recently and i quote that that little trick of entering a standard four-digit code allows anyone to call that number and hear your messages in that book he boasted that using that little trick enables him to win scoop of the year for a story about former england national soccer team manager sven-goran eriksson so that is a former editor of the daily mirror being very open about his personal use of phone hacking and indeed he is a former news of the world executivequoton his show monday night morgan acknowledged that quoti was editor of two major british tabloid newspapers for 11 years i worked for news corp as editor of the news of the world 16 years ago from 1994 to 1995 i was also editor for the daily mirror a paper not owned by rupert murdoch from 1995 to 2004quotmorgan said he did not believe that any story published in either newspaper was gained in an unlawful manner quotnor have i seen anything to suggest thatquothowever when morgan was the editor of the daily mirror he did oversee the faking of photos that showed british soldiers quotabusingquot iraqi039s by abusing i mean standing over them ampamp pretending to urinate on themin a statement the mirror group said it had fallen victim to a quotcalculated and malicious hoaxquot and that it would be quotinappropriatequot for morgan to continuethe queen039s lancashire regiment qlr said the mirror under morgan039s stewardship had quotendangered the lives of british troopsquot by running the picturesms mensch - you039re a starpiers morgan - you are a total scumbag the highly respected cnn would be well advised dropping you asap from the wonderful cnn namethanks to cnnwednesday 20th july 2011

baton vs camera: police open hunt for citizen journalists
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as the consolidated corporate media machine fails in its function as the fourth estate citizen journalists and independent press outlets are there to pick up the slack but this important task is becoming increasingly threatened by the harsh treatment at the hands of the police force citizen based media is often targeted by police for reporting unfiltered truths or they are lumped together with activistsprotesters and beaten or arrested as more and more americans choose alternative news sources to find out what is really happening in their country harassing those providing first hand reports muzzles the free flow of information and poses a threat to democracy abby martin explores the subject for rtlike us andor follow us:http:twittercomrt_americahttp:wwwfacebookcomrtamerica

boris johnson on sir paul039s resignation - notw phone hacking new
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boris johnson on sir paul039s resignationclick the link below to subscribe to the 039news of the world phone hacking039 youtube channel http:wwwyoutubecomsubscription_centerannotation_id=annotation_732456ampampadd_user=notwphonehackingampampfeature=ivfor upto date news on the hacking scandal follow me on twitter http:twittercomnotw_hack_newsthe mayor of london boris johnson has said he had accepted his resignation with quotgreat sadness and reluctancequot and said there was quotno question about his personal integrityquotmr johnson said sir paul had not wanted to be a distraction for the force in the run up to next year039s olympic gamessunday 17th july 2011

james murdoch 039mafia boss039
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tom watson calls james murdoch a mafia boss 10112011 click the link below to subscribe to the 039news of the world phone hacking039 youtube channel http:wwwyoutubecomsubscription_centerannotation_id=annotation_732456ampampadd_user=notwphonehackingampampfeature=ivfor upto date news on the hacking scandal follow me on twitter http:twittercomnotw_hack_newsnews international chief james murdoch has rejected suggestions the company operated like the mafia over the phone hacking scandalduring questioning by mps labour039s tom watson suggested its uk arm had adopted the quotomertaquot code of silencemr murdoch said that was quotoffensive and not truequot and said he was not made aware in 2008 that phone hacking went beyond one rogue reporterhe also said two former executives had given mps quotmisleadingquot evidencethe clash with mr watson who has pursued the company over the phone hacking scandal came halfway through the sessionmr murdoch had repeatedly told the committee he had not been made aware of details suggesting phone hacking went beyond clive goodman - the former news of the world royal reporter jailed in 2007 - when he authorised a large out-of-court settlement to footballer039s union leader gordon taylor in june 2008mr watson asked if he was familiar with the code of quotomertaquot - which he characterised as quota group of people bound together by secrecy who together pursue their group039s business objectives with no regard for the lawquot and suggested that was quotan accurate description of news international in the ukquotmr murdoch replied: quotabsolutely not i frankly think that is offensive and that039s not truequotthe labour mp said the company was facing a series of allegations around hacking and told him: quotyou must be the first mafia boss in history who didn039t know he was running a criminal enterprisequotmr murdoch said that was quotinappropriatequot and said while it was a quotmatter of great regretquot that quotthings went wrongquot at the newspaper when evidence had come to light quotwe acted i think with great zeal and diligence to get to the bottom of issues to improve the processes to make sure they didn039t happen againquotthanks to the bbcthursday 10th november 2011

former now chief reporter neville thurlbeck speaks about james murdoch
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former now chief reporter neville thurlbeck speaks about james murdoch10112011click the link below to subscribe to the 039news of the world phone hacking039 youtube channel http:wwwyoutubecomsubscription_centerannotation_id=annotation_732456ampampadd_user=notwphonehackingampampfeature=ivfor upto date news on the hacking scandal follow me on twitter http:twittercomnotw_hack_newsformer now chief reporter neville thurlbeck to whom the quotfor neville emailquot is assumed to be referring has denied accusations that he was involved in hackinghe said he has compiled a dossier to clear his name and that it would be good news for mr murdochquoti think there was a news of the world agenda which very firmly believed that a lid could be kept on all of this if everybody said nothing i don039t think a lot of the information went further than the news of the world newsroom floorquot he saidthanks to the bbcthursday 10th november 2011

haiti grassroots watch 4 - why has cholera hit haiti so hard
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for dossier 4 haiti grassroots watch took a look at cholera water and sanitation and asked why has cholera hit the country so hard what is the real situation of water and sanitation how did things get this way please also read our articles at http:wwwhaitigrassrootswatchorg

fox news accused of 039deliberately avoiding covering the hacking scandal039 - notw phone hacking new
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fox avoiding covering the news of the world scandalclick the link below to subscribe to the 039news of the world phone hacking039 youtube channel http:wwwyoutubecomsubscription_centerannotation_id=annotation_732456ampampadd_user=notwphonehackingampampfeature=ivfor upto date news on the hacking scandal follow me on twitter http:twittercomnotw_hack_newsfox news watch panelists:jon scott: is the host of fox news watch who joined fox news network in october of 1996 two months prior to its launchjim pinkerton: is a fellow at the new america foundation and joined fox news in 1996judy miller: is a pulitzer prize-winning reporter she writes for newsmax magazine and is a fox news contributorcal thomas: is a syndicated columnist and joined fox news in 1997alan colmes: is the syndicated radio host of quotthe alan colmes showquot and joined fox news in 1996some of robert murdoch039s news media outlets are accused of not covering the news of the world scandal after panelists on 039fox news watch039 were caught talking about not bringing the issue up live on aircal thomas says: quotanybody want to bring up the story that we are not talking about tonight for the streamersquotjim pinkerton replies: quotsure go ahead calquotcal thomas says: quotno go ahead jimquotjim pinkerton replies: quoti039m not going to touch itquotjudy miller: quotwith a ten foot durbinquotbut due to that conversation claims are being made that murdoch039s interests in the us are deliberately going out of their way not to cover the scandal in case in inflames interest in the statesthanks to cnnthursday 14th july 2011