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“Freedom of Information (FoI) can be inconvenient, at times frustrating and indeed embarrassing for governments. But Freedom of Information is the right course because government belongs to the people, not the politicians.”
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King Abdullah University of Science and Technology: “For the new institution, the king has cut his own education ministry out the loop, hiring the state-owned oil giant Saudi Aramco to build the campus, create its curriculum and attract foreigners.”
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“Over the past year, IWPR has been working with fledgling reporters in Helmand, increasing their skills in reporting and writing for print; now the project has branched out into radio production.”
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“President Bush cited Egypt as the country that would pave the way for democracy in the Middle East. Three women, unable to sit by while their country is on the brink of drastic change, start a grassroots movement to educate and empower the public..”
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“Bloody Cartoons is a documentary about how and why 12 drawings in a Danish provincial paper could whirl a small country into a confrontation with Muslims all over the world..” Has this controversy led to self-censorship?
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- [from elizrael] Blackberry gets filter in the UAE | TheNextWeb, Dec 27, 2009
- [from ibnaddunya] Mahmoud Saber's blog » Between Cronyism And Cohesion Force !
- [from ibnaddunya] BBC - Podcasts - World Book Club
- [from martinstabe] The Scoop: The Gift of DataDerek Willis on providing local context to a national story using data: You can’t provide locally relevant information for a mass audience in a story ... That constraint – which still exists on the web, albeit it less so than for print publications – makes it easier to justify working with hundreds of thousands or millions of rows of data to build an interfa […]
- [from martinstabe] NYU Journalism "Primary Sources": Jay Rosen and Clay ShirkyInteresting discussion from about the 7:16 mark, where Rosen discusses the "sociology of the newsroom" research of the 1970s and 1980s and its implications for a world where the production routines of the media are changing.
- [from elizrael] Coordination Center for National Iranian Armed Resistance Forces declares its existence. - MikVerbrugge, Dec 27, 2009mutiny in the Iranian army
- [from righthand] It Is Time to Bury the Brutish Empire! British Deception Responsible for Palestinian Bloodshed TodayThe history of the British manipulation of Arabs and Jews is, as the incredible suffering of the people of Gaza attests to today, a sad story. It is a pathetic one too, because the world, and the involved parties, who have failed to understand the evil nature of the British Empire, and thus, failed to react decisively to its machinations, before, during, and […]
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