There is no doubt that news these days does literally travel at almost the speed of light. What was once breaking news can be fish and chip wrap within minutes of hitting the web. Some news sites ...
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Do you want to know about current events? You can't go wrong with the New York Times, NPR, or even "The Daily Show." One thing you might want to avoid, however, is Fox News. A new poll ...
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Headlines: Not always super easy to come up with, you know.
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If I told you right now they had crack in it, you'd go, "I knew knew something was up."
[sofapizza]
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Remarkable for the number of screw-ups that they managed to work into a single one minute transmission.
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Public-supported news, or as the news industry would have us believe - state run propaganda machines, is a hotly contested sore point in the US. Of course not all countries look at this way as evidenced by ...
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Former head of research unit responds to criticism by arguing for necessity of assessing excerpts by independent reviews
This article was written by Adam Vaughan, for guardian.co.uk on Thursday 15th July 2010 00.59 UTCThe former head of the ...
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Andres Iniesta's extra-time goal denies Holland in a showdown marred by 14 yellow cards and a sending-off
This article was written by Paul Hayward at Soccer City, Johannesburg, for guardian.co.uk on Sunday 11th July 2010 21.43 UTCThis World ...
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Muir Russell report says scientists did not fudge data, but they should have been more open about their work
This article was written by David Adam, environment correspondent, for guardian.co.uk on Thursday 8th July 2010 01.13 UTCThe climate ...
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An EEG test could one day be used to identify people at risk of developing mental illnesses such as schizophrenia before they show any symptoms.
This article was written by Alok Jha, for guardian.co.uk on Monday 5th July ...
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Hey, they're both similar shapes.
Err ... kinda.
[Thanks CS!]
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An amusing temple for every segment on every news show, ever:
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As a native Long Islander, I was amused when Newsday, our local paper, waded fearlessly and without irony into the ice-cold waters of charging for news on the internet.
I don't know anyone who has ever paid for ...
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Expected at some point during the next couple of weeks is the announcement by Arthur Sulzberger Jr, Chairman of New York Times, that the illustrious Gray Lady well be retreating to her petticoats of a paywall. As ...
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We hear the scare tactics everyday. The news industry is tanking and the only way to save it is by returning to putting everything behind the paywall or instituting some sort of micro-payment schemes. News can't survive ...
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Apparently the Mars-like sandstorms aren't the only sci-fi plagues walloping Australia- a news broadcast appears to show a giant seagull looming over a background of Melbourne.
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Well it looks like Rupert Murdoch didn’t get Chris Anderson’s memo about everything on the Internet being free. Word is that the News Corp chairman told analysts in a earnings conference call that ...
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Even within archaic systems and services there are some that are even more out of touch with reality and do everything they can to perpetuate old and outdated ways of doing things. The Associated ...
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Newspapers as they move away from the print world and try to embrace the online distribution of news are being faced with how they are going to make money. Advertising might work for blogs ...
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If journalists don’t write about it does that mean that news doesn’t happen and if they do does that mean they have some sort of copyright over the reporting of that news? For ...
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The details are still sketchy but an unidentified man has fired at least one shot at the Apple Store in Clarendon, Arlington Virginia, just shortly after the store open this morning. Witness at the ...
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Will Sunday June 14, 2009 go down in the history books as when Twitter finally came into its own as the voice of the people. Will it be the date when we realize that there is a ...
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