INSIDE STORY: THE CAPTURE OF NEW YORK TIMES SQUARE BOMBER Officials in the United States and Pakistan sought to determine the origins and scope of the plot. The young woman in Bridgeport who last month sold Mr. Shahzad the rusting 1993 Nissan Pathfinder prosecutors say he used in the failed attack did not remember his…
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…
Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden – the world’s most wanted man – is alive and well and living in Iran, according to a documentary. HE has given up the caves of Afghanistan or – as more recently believed – Pakistan, and is now living under the protection of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, it is claimed….
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…
New Study: Liberals More Open Than Conservatives By Ari Melber Many liberal blogs, it turns out, were created with platforms to host multiple authors and share attention with guest contributors. Conservative blogs, in contrast, often use technologies highlighting a single author–while consigning guests to the digital equivalent of a newspaper’s classified section. Those are some…
Are the legal struggles faced by professional journalism today — such as copyright infringement and online aggregation issues — unique to our times? What are the historical precedents and origins for these challenges, and how might we pave a better path forward? Joshua Benton — Director, Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University — addresses the…
In recent years Internet-based campaigns–efforts that often blossom on bulletin boards and blogs in hours or days–have pressured the Chinese government to release prisoners, launch investigations into scandals such as the kidnapping of boys conscripted into slave labor, and imprison corrupt government officials. “The Internet has empowered the Chinese people more than the combined effects…
OIL continued to pour into the Gulf of Mexico on Monday as the authorities waited to see if the quickest possible method of stopping the leaks would bring an end to what was threatening to become an environmental disaster. Remote-controlled robots operating 5,000 feet under the ocean’s surface were more than a full day into…