Reporters sans fronti?®res announces blog awards for freedom of expression
Reporters sans fronti?®res has named its picks for the blogs that do the most to defend free expression. The winners: Shared Pains from Afghanistan Al Jinane from Morocco Screenshots from Malaysia ICT lex from Italy PressThink from the U.S. Mojtaba Saminejad from Iran...LA Times: Something wiki this way went (and three ways to send jerks packing)
As someone whose first experience with opening a blog up to comments was being flooded by some jackass promoting online Texas Hold’em poker, I can sympathize with the LA Times and the failure – for now of their Wikitorial idea: Unfortunately, we have had...Scott McClellan: that depends on what you mean by “its”, “last” and “throes”…
You’ve never seen a determination to stick to message quite like White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan’s. U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney recently said the Iraqi insurgency is in its “last throes” – a statement considerably at odds...Lies, damned lies, and merely darned lies
Responding to a complaint at TPM Cafe that reporters never come right out and use the “L” word in describing George W. Bush’s mendacity, a journalist writes: I think you’re asking too much of reporters to label something as lies when its just...In case you thought the media in France was perfect…
We like to gripe about news coverage here at ODTAA – particularly the kind of horse-race-and-poll-fixated news coverage that so often passes for Canadian (and American) political analysis. Turns out that’s a problem over in Europe as well. Dominique...
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Looking for advice on public speaking, speechwriting and leadership communications? Here are some of my most comprehensive posts, on topics that people ask me about most often.
