Archive for the ‘journalism’ Category
Saturday, March 1st, 2008
If Afghanistan was Russia's Vietnam, Chechnya is its Iraq. A candidate for bravest woman of this young century, Anna Politkovskaya paid the ultimate price for her reporting on how much the Chechnyan people have suffered.Read the full story
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Sunday, September 30th, 2007
Life as a Nobel Peace Prize laureate is not as awash in laurels as you might think. Aung San Suu Kyi (1991) has spent 10 of the last 17 years under house arrest. Meanwhile, Mohamed ElBaradei (2005) has been the object of an ongoing campaign by the administration to make ...
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Thursday, September 20th, 2007
Modern national politics has become an electronic, press-mediated wall that prevents the electoral from truly getting to know their candidates and vice versa. Data mining, robo-calls and micro-targeting are lousy ways for the governed to get to know the would-be governors.Read the full story
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Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
The tasing of a student by U of Florida police has sparked a new round of debates over police power/abuse. I wish we could trust our law enforcement completely, but I remember a late-night encounter with a proudly racist cop 20 years ago, and the truth is that there are ...
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Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
The value of "alt journalism" is compromised when it reflects shoddy thinking, careless use/vetting of source material and an absence of ethical grounding. If J schools want to exert a productive impact on the future of news, they need to evolve their curricula to train students for the free-for-all they’re ...
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