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Unrequired Reading {8.1.09}
These are some of the things that have caught my attention lately. It’s a more eclectic mix than just the news business, but then so’s life:
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War 2.0: ‘Neutral’ observers, Blogs and SMS alerts
Mads Gilbert is a critic of US foreign policy and of Israel. He also happens to be a Norwegian emergency medicine specialist who is currently working inside Gaza. As a doctor, he has shown up in TV reports describing the situation inside his medical facility. But as a critic of Israel/US policy he is under…
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Journalism in your own backyard
How free are journalists when reporting on events in their own back yard? As a young Brit working for CBS News in the late 1980s, I recall bristling at the anti-British prejudice that one correspondent brought to his reporting of the Northern Ireland story. In recent years, bloggers seeking to question the neutrality of international…
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Unrequired Reading {7.1.09}
These are some of the things that have caught my attention lately. It’s a more eclectic mix than just the news business, but then so’s life: