By, Uwe Paschen. Yukio Hatoyama, Japan’s newly elected Prime Minister intends to keep his electoral promises in spite of resistance on several fronts. Japan’s Democratic Party just won last August National...
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US marine Lance Corporal Joshua Bernard was wounded in Afghanistan, and died on the operating table. Associated Press photographer Julie Jacobson shot a photo of the dying soldier, and the AP released the image. The Department of Defense immediately protested the publication...
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Lately, the Associated Press (AP) has truly been going out of their way to show that traditional journalists really do understand social media.Open-source, cross-linking, going viral? They're down with that. The AP is with it. Fo' shizzle.For instance, the AP understands that...
By, Uwe Paschen. E.U. Suspends all aid to Niger and freezes all accounts. After Failure of the Niger Government to comply with EU demands as reported in an earlier post. (See links at the end of this post.)...
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Caracas, Venezuela, 29 June 2009. Honduran President Manuel Zelaya announced his return to Honduras on Thursday. He would be accompanied by OAS General Secretary and probably some other Latin American leaders. ...
A deadly fire at a Mexico day care center has claimed the lives of 29 children and injured several others. " The victims were from 1 to 5 years old, said Jose Larrinaga, the spokesman. The fire appeared to have...
The name Seamus Blake says it all. Blake is the son of immigrants from Ireland and an “evangelist” of the Gaelic language. He has a weekly broadcast on WFUV-FM in New York that plays everything from Afro-Celtic funk to lessons on how to speak the...
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Surrounded by nine bewitching hills, the agriculture-rich Armoor, also known as Navanathapuram is geared up for an interesting ‘all in the family’ contest in this citadel of Congress. The vagaries of...
Hyderabad: He has been a trend-setter and the fact that the delimitation exercise has left him without his constituency, Miryalguda, has allowed him to stay off the beaten track yet again. Quite aptly, even though it entailed a shift of districts from Nalgonda to Ranga...
If all the world was a stage, as Shakespeare said, playing the successful politician is one of the most demanding acts. As a natural actress, Jaysudha has charmed two generations of film lovers in the state but she knows fully well the demands of her new role. Having been...
Amudalavalasa: It’s called Amudalavalasa but you don’t find too many castor (amudalu) plantations in this corner of north coastal Andhra. But it’s an interesting name which derives from its name from Asokan times. It was then called Herandapuram, heranda in Sanskrit...
Laxmi Devi, a 28-year-old labourer, had a dream to build a house. Living hand to mouth with husband and son in a dingy hut on the outskirts of Garladinne in Anantapur district, she had no hope of life ever becoming kinder. “In spite of having two acres of land, we had to...
This is my comment on the increasing irrelevant AP's desperate last ditch effort to prevent it from going the way of the many bankrupt newspapers that have went before it. [See AP IS DESPARATE TO OUTLAW SEARCH ENGINE LINKING] For the last 30 years or so the AP self censored...
AP has reached out to affiliate radio station WTNQ-FM in Tennessee to say sorry after a misunderstanding over some YouTube video footage. AP was rumored to have sent WTNQ-FM a cease-and-desist letter after the radio station embedded footage from the AP YouTube channel...
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Guess who's got their back up against the wall and their copyright-clad knickers in a twist again? You guessed it, the Associated Press, that bastion of the newsiest news the news biz has ever produced is about to...