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• MEDIA LENS: THE BBC’S JEREMY PAXMAN ON IRAQ – “WE WERE HOODWINKED”

  
  Creative-i — Authority: 147
  Does not government submission of evidence mark the point where serious journalism +begins+ rather than ends? What is the reason for journalism at all, if the responsibility is simply to accept what a US Secretary of Defence says because we “know” he “is an intelligent, thoughtful man, and a sceptical man”?
  4 days ago

• Index and English Pen to launch libel report

  
  Index on Censorship — Authority: 609
  Launch of the Libel Reform campaign and the English PEN and Index on Censorship “Free Speech Is Not For Sale” report 12 – 2pm, 10th November 09. Light lunch provided.Free Word Centre, 60 Farringdon Road, EC1R 3GA Index on Censorship and English PEN fear:“We’re becoming a global free speech pariah” “Our ...
  5 days ago

• Newsnicht - Willie Bain

  
  SUBROSA — Authority: 544
  Willie Bain is on the left Willie Bain was in the hot seat on Newnight Scotland last night. He is the labour candidate for the Glasgow North East by-election. The interviewer was Gordon Brewer and I feel he was very soft and far less time was given than was allocated to David Kerr on Monday. Is that a ...
  5 days ago

• Trafigura coverage still curtailed by libel abuse. UK media unable to report freely on deaths allegedly caused by dumping of Trafigura’s toxic waste

  
  Don't Get Fooled Again — Authority: 599
  There’s renewed coverage today of the ongoing legal battles following the notorious Ivory Coast toxic waste incident , in which the oil trader Trafigura has been implicated. The Guardian (UK) , Times (UK) and New York Times (US) all report that the £30 million compensation payment by Trafigura to victims of ...
  5 days ago

• The Conservative Party And Britain In Crisis

  
  The Final Redoubt — Authority: 531
  3rd November 2009 PRAGUE (Reuters) - Czech President Vaclav Klaus signed the European Unions Lisbon Treaty Tuesday, bringing into force the EUs plan to overhaul its institutions and win a greater role on the world stage. "I signed the Lisbon Treaty today at 1500 (local time, 2 p.m. British time)," Klaus ...
  6 days ago

• Newsnicht - David Kerr

  
  SUBROSA — Authority: 544
  Last night I watched Newnight Scotland, only because David Kerr, the SNP candidate for the Glasgow NE by-election was to be interviewed. The interviewer was Glen Campbell instead of the regular Gordon Brewer. Did that make a difference? Thats a matter of personal opinion. Mr Kerr, ex-BBC employee and for a ...
  1 week ago

• Justice for victims

  
  Blog :: rhinestonetshirts.com — Authority: 164
  Will the Karadzic trial reach the truth about Srebrenica?
  2 weeks ago

• Big baw face

  
  And another thing... — Authority: 563
  SORRY about the lack of posts recently, but as they say: if you have nothing to say, don’t say it. Having (not) said that, here’s a link to the interview I gave to Newsnight ’s David Grosssman a couple of weeks ago on the “Save  General Election Night” Early Day Motion .
  2 weeks ago

• Greens on Trial Newsnight

  
  Green Reading — Authority: 129
  Wath Wednesday’s ‘Greens on Trial’ Newsnight special 20 mins in, to 32 mins. Its very good, Caroline Lucas MEP, Zac Goldsmith and from John Sauven, UK Executive Director, Greenpeace were largely in agreement. Shame the other Tories dont agree, they have few plans for reducing carbon. The presenter tries ...
  3 weeks ago

• Index and English Pen to launch libel report

  
  Index on Censorship — Authority: 609
  Index on Censorship and English PEN will release the findings of a one-year inquiry into libel law on 10 November. According to a detailed inquiry by human rights charities English PEN and Index on Censorship, English libel law has a profoundly negative impact on freedom of expression, both in the UK and around the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Retrospective laws, I expect MP’s get it now

  
  Lightwater — Authority: 134
  There’s a big side benefit to the Legg audit of MP’s Additional Cost Allowances .  It’s this, maybe now MP’s will realise the iniquity of passing retrospective legislation. As the case of the interview, on Newsnight on Tuesday evening, between David Grossman and Labour MP Bill Etherington, ...
  3 weeks ago

• America’s Greed Affliction

  
  Newsroom Magazine — Authority: 128
  In what was clearly one of the most difficult operating environments in several years, Lehman Brothers posted significant year-over-year increases in the fourth quarter.Richard Fuld, CEO, Lehman BrothersBostonThe AfflictionThe AfflictionGreed is not the same as affluence, for, as logician Jeff Slee reminds us, greed ...
  3 weeks ago

• Trafigura gagging order on toxic waste dumping memo overturned by blogosphere and Twitter users

  
  newsjiffy — Authority: 425
  Fantastic news that the gagging order brought by the law firm Carter-Ruck (as seen on a semi-regular basis in the pages of Private Eye) on behalf of the Swiss oil trader Trafigura , has been abandoned. The order was intended to prevent the media reporting three questions asked in the House of Commons by Paul ...
  4 weeks ago

• Rusbridger tweets: Now support Newsnight

  
  Jon Slattery — Authority: 442
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• Jacqui Smith : Crime Without Punishment

  
  Guy Fawkes' blog — Authority: 702
  Guido is grateful to Newsnight’s David Grossman for revealing how it passed that Jacqui Smith’s investigation by the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner and critical report to to the Committee on Standards and Privileges resulted in a mere slap on the wrist. Guido has, for once, no complaints about ...
  4 weeks ago

• Obama Beat These To The Prize....

  
  Biased BBC — Authority: 588
  From Ace - who else was up for the Nobel Peace Prize? Chinese Human Rights Activist Hu Jia - imprisoned for campaigning for human rights in the PRC, not as worthy as Barack Hussein Obama. Wei Jingsheng, who spent 17 years in Chinese prisons for urging reforms of Chinas communist system. -- not as worthy as ...
  4 weeks ago

• Repent: Were all doomed in October

  
  Telegraph.co.uk News Blog — Authority: 814
  Watching Newsnight last night, with the programme given over to what it called the Aftershock of the collapse of Lehman Brothers this time last year, I was struck by the number of City elders and economics wiseacres who sat on Paxo’s sofas saying we hadn’t seen the worst of it yet, it would get worse [...]
  7 weeks ago

• Article Title Unknown

  
  The Shrewd Economist — Authority: 117
  Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams: Bankers Have Failed to Repent TIMES ONLINE: The Archbishop of Canterbury has waded into the debate on bankers bonuses, warning that financiers feel no "repentance" for the excesses of the boom that led to financial meltdown. Dr Rowan Williams, the head of the Church of ...
  7 weeks ago

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