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Do African governments deserve to be taken at face value?
The news out of Zimbabwe in the Times has a friend of mine in Angola complaining: …the paper fails to point out that the Angolan government has denied this story as ‘a gross lie.’ If the US government made such a denial would the Times omit it? … The Angolan authorities might not be telling…
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Trashing Jill Carroll
US site Radar has an interesting opinion piece on Jill Carroll, the Christian Science Monitor stringer who was taken hostage in Iraq. It’s by Tony Dokoupil. Although Carroll was only a stringer, the Monitor put her on staff whilst she was being held and campaigned hard for her release. When she got out they made…
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A journalist’s assessment of the Libby trial
Rick Kaplan is about to walk in the door as EP at CBS News. Maybe the first thing he should do is beg Eric Engberg to come out of retirement. Engberg is an old CBS Washington hand, who is not best loved by people whose condemnations I tend to regard as commendations. In a more…
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RSS
In an effort to share more, and using the new xfruits site (HT: JD Lasica) I’ve rolled up my RSS subs (all 236 238 and counting) into one big feed you can just subscribe to. It’s on the left. There’s a couple of quirky subs in there (my folding bike, for example) but otherwise I…