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Fourth Estate collapses
The Inquiring Mind —
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Cactus Kate points out how the media through a combination of cost cutting and weakness are allowing themselves to be gagged in the worst way possible, self censorship to avoid legal costs. Thus the so-called Fourth Estate that indefatigable defender of our rights and stronghold of fearless inestigative truthtellers ...3 hours ago -
The FDICs Other Friday Gambit
zero hedge —
Authority: 771
Fridays seem to have become the day to dump bad news as a consequence of the lazy tendency of some members of the Fourth Estate to head out early to start their weekends. (There is a reason it isnt FDIC Failure Tuesday- part of it involves the ease of moving retail deposits to their new home, but reporting plays a ...2 days ago -
Our Mans a patient reader
our man in abiko —
Authority: 430
Lead headline in Our Mans print edition of the Japan Times today : AMR, TPG eye hefty JAL investment Question: Are they trying to tell me a news story or give me an eye exam? Im leaning towards the latter. Our Mans OK with the last line, but he cant read the first two, Doc. Time for bifocals?3 days ago -
Jokes on Fox, again
our man in abiko —
Authority: 430
Its getting too easy to see through Fox News. But its still funny: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c Sean Hannity Uses Glenn Becks Protest Footage http://www.thedailyshow.com/ Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care Crisis Secret handshake to ...4 days ago -
Getting Serious About That Novel: A Dozen Top Writers Share Their Habits
BOOK SA - News —
Authority: 543
Alert! Let’s face it: if you want to be successful, really successful, as a writer, you have to put in the hours. Exactly how you structure this putting in of the hours is up to you, but you still gotta do it. In a terrific piece that has nothing to do with SA Lit but cries out for as wide a readership as possible, ...5 days ago -
Book Club Notes: John Mullan on Language in Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun
BOOK SA - News —
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The Guardian Book Club with John Mullan discusses Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s latest, Half of a Yellow Sun , providing an in-depth analysis of Adichie’s use of different languages and syntax, particularly with regards to the portrayal of violence: There are many novels written in English whose characters are ...1 week ago -
Hide shoots the messenger
The Standard —
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Hide says his comment that Key “doesn’t do anything” was “taken out of context” by the reporter. It’s a direct attack on van Beyan’s professionalism. Reminiscent of Key’s smears after his “we would love to see wages drop” quoted was reported. Van Beyan should stand up for himself and his ...1 week ago -
Ambika Soni slams Kerala for ‘guiding’ government news
Thaindian News —
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New Delhi, Nov 5 (IANS) Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni Thursday termed as a “gross violation of the constitution” the Kerala government guidelines to departments regarding interaction with the media.Reacting to media reports, Soni said: “We consider it as a gross violation of the Article 19 ...1 week ago -
News in Japan? Nahh, were just a newspaper
our man in abiko —
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Our Man gets the feeling that newspapers dont want to survive. What with putting silly barcodes on their pages that you are supposed to hold up to your web cam (so absurd, Our Man forgot where he read this) methinks theyve forgotten the basics. You know, news - stuff that happens to folk, er, recently. ...2 weeks ago -
The Enemies List Grows
Hard Starboard —
Authority: 442
The ObamaHouse sought a " truce " with Fox News because the former was getting its ass kicked, not so much by FNC (which is, after all, only doing the "watchdogging" a news organization is SUPPOSED to do) as by their own selves . Clearly, theyve sought smaller game they think they can handle : On the same ...2 weeks ago -
The Power Of Fox
Hard Starboard —
Authority: 442
Good news - the Hussein administration has finally learned how to compromise! Now, instead of claiming that Hogzilla "saved or created" a million jobs at the risible end, and thirty thousand jobs at the just barely believable other, now theyve landed somewhere in-between. Sort of : The Obama ...2 weeks ago -
Shock and Awe
The Epicurean Dealmaker —
Authority: 549
What the hell did I ever do to piss Steve Randy Waldman off? I tell you honestly, Dear Readers, my afternoon conversation with this genial and intelligent gentleman started unremarkably enough, with a little playful banter in the Twitterverse on this and that. (I called myself a squirrel ; he revealed himself ...2 weeks ago -
Annus Horribilis…
poldraw —
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I’ve just been sent a copy of Ann Treneman’s latest book, Annus Horribilis – The Worst Year in British Politics. It’s a collection of her brilliant Parliamentary sketches for The Times from the last year, so that ought to be a good read! I was lucky enough to do the book jacket for it, and to Gibson ...2 weeks ago -
Truce?
Hard Starboard —
Authority: 442
I dont think Id dignify the term "war" to describe the ObamaHouses primal anti-Fox squeal of the past month - as Ive noted several times, if they wanted to shut down FNC, they were much more direct (if blatantly illegal and unconstitutional) ways of doing so - so its an even safer bet that words derivative of "war" ...2 weeks ago -
More bliss, hot off the presses
our man in abiko —
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With this lead headline in Our Mans Japan Times today: Sumitomo Trust, Chuo Mitsui to wed - should Our Man say "Many Happy Returns"?2 weeks ago -
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on £5 000 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize Shortlist
BOOK SA - News —
Authority: 543
Alert! Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is in the running for the £5 000 John Llewellyn Rhys literary prize . The prize, founded 67 years ago, is awarded in honour of the writer John Llewellyn Rhys, who was killed in action during World War II. It’s presented for the best work of literature (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, ...2 weeks ago -
Letter From America
Contra Celsum —
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Obamas Third World Press Rant Wesley Pruden Throwing rotten eggs at "them lyin newspapers" has always been great sport in America, and sometimes even effective politics. But it has to be done with wit and humor, which may be above Barack Obamas pay grade. Thomas Jefferson despised newspapers, with considerable ...2 weeks ago -
Surge Accomplished
The Vigilant Lens —
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Two years later…this is your Representative Brian “bush” Baird surge of accomplishment.The Representative Brian “bush” Baird surge of accomplishment, accomplished at least 841 dead Iraqi humans this year alone…due to your Baird/Bush surge of suicide bombings.In 2008, suicide bombers killed more than a ...2 weeks ago -
Maureen Isaacson Reviews It’s Our Turn to Eat: The story of a Kenyan whistleblower by Michela Wrong
BOOK SA - Reviews —
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Verdict: stick Remember Cincinnatus in Nabokov’s Invitation to a Beheading ? He was imprisoned for “gnostical turpitude”. Love that word, turpitude. Maureen Isaacson deploys it with a different descriptive in her review of Michela Wrong’s true story of corruption in Kenya, It’s Our Turn to Eat . As ...3 weeks ago -
A Call To Redundancy
Hard Starboard —
Authority: 442
HELP US MAKE A FOOL OUT OF KEITH OLBERMANN !!! Last night Keith Olbermann launched into a tirade against our conservative, grass roots movement, the Tea Party Express II: Countdown to Judgment Day . Olbermann and other liberals are quite unhappy that "We The People" are rising up to take our country back ...3 weeks ago
