FISA Court Proposes New Court Rules
Updated below The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has proposed new rules to comply with the provisions of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008. The Court reviews government applications for...
View ArticlePakistan’s Weird Media
Pakistan has seen a television revolution over the past decade or so, opening up the political dialogue and in some cases giving voice to pro-democracy demonstrators. But there's been a downside, as...
View ArticleLibya’s Jibril sweeps Tripoli election districts
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libyan wartime prime minister Mahmoud Jibril's National Forces Alliance was assured of landslide election victories in districts across the capital Tripoli, partial tallies released...
View ArticleArtists Score Victory in Mass-Piracy Lawsuit Against CBS, CNET
A coalition of artists has scored an important victory in their piracy lawsuit against CNET and CBS Interactive. The artists, joined by billionaire and FilmOn founder Alki David, accuse the media...
View ArticleVenezuela’s Chavez maintains lead over rival Capriles: poll
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez maintains a 15 percentage point lead over opposition challenger Henrique Capriles in the run-up to the October 7 election, pollster Datanalisis said...
View ArticleReporter: Bush ‘negligence’ ignored pre-9/11 warnings
Reporter Kurt Eichenwald, author of a key book exploring the terror war, castigates the Bush administration in a New York Times editorial published Sept. 11, 2012 for covering up months of...
View ArticleAl-Jazeera’s political independence questioned amid Qatar intervention
Al-Jazeera’s editorial independence has been called into question after its director of news stepped in to ensure a speech made by Qatar’s emir to the UN led its English channel’s coverage of the...
View ArticleIntroducing Bloodline, Wired’s New Video Series on the Taxonomy of Fear in...
Some people just really enjoy being spooked. They can't get enough blood and guts. Here at Wired, those two people are editorial operations manager Jay Dayrit and researcher Jordan Crucchiola. They're...
View ArticleWhose Votes Are Really Being Wasted?
“A wasted vote,” says Gary Johnson, “is a vote for someone you don’t believe in.” … Read More
View ArticleCNN removes story about women’s hormones affecting voting
Following widespread ridicule, CNN has removed a story published online Wednesday about whether hormones could influence female voting choices.The piece by Elizabeth Landau looked at unpublished...
View ArticleThe Good, The Bad and the Very Very Pianticously Ugly!
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View ArticleTunisians Voice – Nawaat Portal hacked
<!-- adsense --> Kosova Warriors Group deface a subdomain (http://events.nawaat.org/) of Nawaat Portal.. Its an independent collective blog hosted by Tunisians. It gives a voice to all those...
View Article‘Don’t Trust The B—- In Apartment 23′: Chloe Helps James Van Der Beek Get...
In order to prove that June is just a sheep who follows whatever People magazine says to her -- and especially their annual "Sexiest Man Alive" issue -- Chloe went to work on "Don't Trust the B---- in...
View ArticleLiberals Still Love John Roberts for His Obamacare Ruling
In an unsigned editorial published today, the editors of The Wall Street Journal give a Bronx cheer to “the media acclaim cascading over Chief Justice John Roberts” for his decision upholding the...
View ArticleChina’s State Paper Falls For Onion Joke About Kim, Publishes 55 Photos in...
Just when you're afraid the news day will be again dominated by partisan maneuvering ahead of the "fiscal cliff," the Internet gives you this to keep you going (via the Associated Press): The online...
View ArticleA Special Message from Amy Goodman — Please Support Democracy Now! Today
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View ArticleFormer Anglo Irish Bank chairman in Dublin court over new fraud charges
Former Anglo Irish Bank chairman Seán FitzPatrick leaves Dublin district court after facing additional fraud charges. Photograph: Julien Behal/Press AssociationOne of the bankers blamed for almost...
View ArticleThe Daily Caller shamelessly shills for Big Tobacco
The right-leaning Daily Caller recently launched an outrageous editorial series by author Patrick Howley. "Cigarette Reviews for the Uninitiated: 18 Brands in 18 Weeks" reads like a parody of tobacco...
View ArticleO’Reilly screams at CNN host for pointing out embarassingly wrong drone claim
After dueling editorial comments about each other earlier in the week, Fox News host Bill O’Reilly and CNN host Howard Kurtz finally sat down Wednesday night to hash out their dispute over whether...
View ArticleOn “Rapefruit” and Rosa Parks “saute”: Two weeks of terrible headlines
Typos happen to good people. Really, it's true. And as someone who occupies a room in the ever-fragile Internet writer wing of the Journalism Glass Castle, I don't make a regular habit of throwing...
View ArticleIngraham turns ‘dove’ and rips Wall Street Journal for beating ‘war drums’
Conservative radio host Laura Ingraham — who once accused opponents of the Iraq invasion of trying to “subvert America” — is now blasting the The Wall Street Journal for beating the “war drums” because...
View ArticleReason Nominated for 12 Maggie Awards!
I'm happy to announce that Reason scooped up a record-setting 12 nominations for Maggie awards from the ;Western Publishing Association ;this year. Which is pretty neat. You can see the full list...
View ArticleBP edited its own environmental record on Wikipedia
Wikipedia editors have accused BP of editing their own page entry to whitewash their environmental impact in the public record. As CNet reported Thursday, "angry Wikipedia editors estimate that BP has...
View ArticleThe New York Times Issues a Press Release for ObamaCare
Over the weekend, The New York Times published an unsigned editorial defending President Obama’s health care overhaul. The headline describes the piece as a “report card” on the health law on its...
View ArticleChina declares war on Apple
HONG KONG, China — The Chinese are no exception when it comes to Apple users' loyalty, and they’re coming to the iPhone maker’s defense following a widespread state media campaign accusing the...
View ArticleWe’re hiring! News writers and features editor wanted
Has the thought of collaborating on TechSpot ever crossed your mind? If so, here's an opportunity to join our editorial team. If you have a passion for technology and the necessary writing skills,...
View ArticleLeaked job listing: Ashton Kutcher recruiting Ivy Leaguers for tech company
Ashton Kutcher isn't letting the delay of his Steve Jobs flick keep him down -- he's staffing up an unnamed tech company with Ivy League English majors who share "[c]reativity and taste for aesthetic...
View ArticleUh-oh: Obamacare’s Target Audience Doesn’t Particularly Want It.
Over at Investor's Business, the always-interesting John Merline sends word of a troubling development when it comes to Obamacare: The very people it was supposed to help the most - the uninsured -...
View ArticleWikiLeaks: Was Chavez Right About U.S.Meddling?
It's no secret that U.S. media loathed the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Much of that was purely political; sure, Chavez could have given shorter speeches and been nicer to his political...
View ArticleUkraine – TVi’s broadcasts suspended after new management bars journalists
Reporters Without Borders condemns the sudden change of management at the opposition TV station TVi, announced three days ago, and is disturbed to learn that ensuing internal disputes have resulted in...
View ArticleDRC – Censorship reigns in Nord-Kivu areas under M23 rebel control
Fighting between M23 rebels and government forces has intensified near Goma, the capital of the eastern province of Nord-Kivu, since 20 May. As well as causing new civilian casualties, the clashes and...
View ArticleUganda – Two newspapers reopen after negotiating with government
Two Kampala-based dailies, the Daily Monitor and Red Pepper, and two radio stations – KFM Radio and Ddembe FM – that broadcast from the headquarters of the company that owns the Daily Monitor, Monitor...
View ArticleChina – Chinese diplomats threaten French journalist after Tibet report
Reporters Without Borders is outraged by the way Chinese diplomatic personnel have harassed and threatened French journalist Cyril Payen, a reporter for the French TV news station France 24, since the...
View ArticleSouth Korea – Seoul newspaper’s journalists locked out by owner
Reporters Without Borders is appalled by the action of Chang Jae-ku, owner and chairman of the South Korean daily Hankook Ilbo, in locking out around 180 of his journalists on 15 June after some of...
View ArticleColombia – After supreme court quashes libel conviction, decriminalization next?
Reporters Without Borders welcomes yesterday's supreme court decision to overturn newspaper editor Luis Agustín González's criminal libel conviction for criticizing the former governor of the central...
View ArticleWashington Post sold to billionaire Amazon CEO
The 49-year-old Bezos, currently ranked as the 11th richest individual in the US by Forbes and the 19th richest in the world just above Google’s Larry Page, has made top headlines since the surprising...
View ArticleRT America’s Liz Wahl resigns live on air
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