Spotlights On Our Global Village As A New Society
Freed Somali pirates ‘probably died’ – Russian source Forces on the Marshal Shaposhnikov freed the captured tanker Ten suspected Somali pirates captured by the Russian navy last week may have perished after their release, a defence source in Moscow has told reporters. Marines seized them during a dramatic operation to free a hijacked Russian oil…
STRANGE BEDFELLOWS By Max Fisher Military Brass Likes Lady Gaga Parody In the two weeks since it first hit the Internet, the YouTube video of Afghanistan-based soldier recreating Lady Gaga’s “Telephone” video have ricocheted around the web enough times to accrue over 3 million hits. At this point, everyone has seen it–including some of the…
Profitable Long Form Journalism May 9, 2010 – 7:26 pm | Edited by Frédéric Filloux Over the last month, I’ve been stuffing my iPad with books purchased online, long PDF files and other documents for later reading sessions. I’m waiting for the mind-blowing media applications, they’re still in the making. Several prototypes of French newspapers…
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It’s sex o’clock in America By Raquel Welch, Special to CNN May 8, 2010 — Updated 0506 GMT (1306 HKT) STORY HIGHLIGHTS Raquel Welch: The Pill has altered society in ways good and bad An upside has been empowerment of women in life decisions Welch: Downside is loss of caution and discernment in choice of…
German biologist says that efforts to clean oil-drenched birds in the Gulf of Mexico are in vain. For the birds’ sake, it would be faster and less painful if animal-rescue workers put them under, she says. Studies and other experts back her up. “Kill, don’t clean,” is the recommendation of a German animal biologist, who…
AS I grow older, I become exhausted by the need to show ever more explicit violence – in cinema and journalism Whenever the cry goes up about the desensitising effect of violence in the media, it is usually the trashy or the trivialising that ends up in the dock. But there is another kind of…
Attention Whole Foods Shoppers Stop obsessing about arugula. Your “sustainable” mantra — organic, local, and slow — is no recipe for saving the world’s hungry millions. BY ROBERT PAARLBERG | MAY/JUNE 2010 From Whole Foods recyclable cloth bags to Michelle Obama’s organic White House garden, modern eco-foodies are full of good intentions. We want to…
HOW TO SAVE YOUR LOCAL NEWSPAPERS By paulgillin | April 28, 2010 – Meet Bobbie Carlton. She’s come up with an idea that every newspaper publisher in New England should have had but didn’t. Her success demonstrates how news publishers can reinvent themselves and survive – maybe even thrive – but only if they have…