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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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2009: More action, less conversation
Dave Cohn, the force of energy behind Spot.us is hosting this month’s Carnival of Journalism. He’s after predictions for 2009. Well, I don’t really have a prediction of the “Someone will discover a business model for Twitter” variety. It being the season of reflection and all, it’s more an observation. It seems to me that…
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Unrequired Reading [12.9.08 to 13.9.08 ]
This is some of what’s caught my attention in the past hours:
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Why The Public Doesn’t Deserve The News
It depends on the habit of attending to and looking into public transactions, and on the degree of information and solid judgment respecting them that exists in the community, whether the conduct of the nation as a nation, both within itself and towards others, shall be selfish, corrupt and tyrannical, or rational and enlightened, just…