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- Cellphones, Osama and the election riddle
It seemed like this Sunday, of all Sundays ever, was the time to settle down with the heavies and have a read. And there was much to mull over - not least the news that Blair might go for a snap February election (rumours now played down), thus wrecking nascent holiday plans for that month.
But, [...]
- It comes down to trust
Ken Layne links to yesterday’s Washington Post White House briefing (free reg reqd) that, he says, “reads like nothing less than a 25-count criminal indictment, albeit an indictment written by a columnist with a light tone”.
“With so many little scandals and big scandals and huge lies and slightly lesser lies rolling out by the hour, [...]
- Getting ready for election night
We’re gearing up for election night at Guardian Unlimited. Detailed plans for the evening now involve stockpiling of sushi, contingency plans for pizza, and the brewing of gallons of industrial strength coffee.
We’ve also been thinking about what to write. And, if you’re blogging, we’d love to hear from you. As Jane Perrone explains on Newsblog, [...]
- Newsblog on the death of John Peel
I’ve read a lot today on the sad news of John Peel’s death. He always struck me as someone who understood, and demonstrated in everything he did, that even the biggest media could be wonderfully, powerfully democratic.
One of my favourite tributes - one that seems to capture all you’d hope to hear about Peel [...]
- Wikinews, anyone?
First, there was Wikipedia - the volunteer-powered encyclopedia that is “about as far from the traditional idea of an encyclopedia as you can get”, as Simon Waldman puts it in today’s Guardian.
Next, could there be Wikinews?
“We seek to create a free source of news, where every human being is invited to contribute reports about [...]
- Reality overload
New York University professor Jay Rosen talks to a BBC reporter about “everything happening in politics and media these days” and finds he’s struggling to articulate the questions about what’s happening - let alone the answers. “There’s too much happening,” he writes. “The public world is changing faster than we can invent terms for describing [...]
- Stats fun on a wet afternoon
It’s pouring outside so, before we head out for the evening, there’s time to fix something that’s bugged be about this site since I started it. I love Typepad, and praise it to all (and welcome to the blogosphere to my old mucker Shaun Milne, who launched his new site the other day).
But the [...]
- Why rising oil prices matter
Lovely piece by Ken Layne - one of the best writers in blogdom, IMHO - on oil prices, the second coming of Christ, and why his moccasins prove things can’t go on in the same way…
- New York Times backs Kerry
The New York Times endorsement of John Kerry, in yesterday’s leader, is a powerful read, even if it is appearing in a paper whose standing has been badly diminished by scandal, aloofness and other mistakes since the last Presidential contest.
The piece, unusually for the NYT, is both comprehensive and to the point, and it [...]
- Missing the point?
The latest PR wheeze from two British trade unions - Amicus and the National Union of Mineworkers (yes, they still exist) started out well enough. Writes the Press Association:
“Britain could face a winter of power blackouts and price rises because of a ‘looming crisis’ in the industry, one of the country’s biggest trade unions has [...]
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