Newspaper claims suspect transformed into a goat

I just wonder if the police read the goat his legal rights, especially the right not to speak? " One of Nigeria's biggest daily newspapers reported that police implicated a goat in an attempted automobile theft....

Gaps In McCain's Military Record Raise Questions

""At a meeting in his Pentagon office in early 1981, Secretary of the Navy John F. Lehman told Capt. John S. McCain III that he was about to attain his life ambition: becoming an admiral.... Mr. McCain declined...

Vatican says Pope's baptism of Muslim not a hostile act

The Vatican's own newspaper printed an article today stating how the Pope Benedict's baptism of an Italian Muslim man over Easter weekend was not a hostile act against Islam, after the move angered critics in the...

McCanns win libel damages against media

After alternatingly glowing and brutal coverage of Kate and Jerry McCann, the parents whose daughter Madeleine went missing in Portugal last year, the family has won damages against two papers."Two newspapers said on Wednesday they will pay "substantial" damages to Madeleine...

Arithmecrats vs. Momentucrats: The Democratic Primary Paradigm

An insightful analysis from the CJR about today's NYT front page. The conceptual framework presented (arithmecrats vs. momentucrats) is an important perspective for understanding the media's perspective and the...

Dr. King's speech opposing Vietnam War

"Dr. King's speech opposing Vietnam War The following speech by Martin Luther King at the Ebenezer Baptist Church on April 30, 1967 could easily have been about the Iraq war. One would think that this talk of Dr....

Top 2007 media screw ups

One of my journalism instructors tried to convince all his students that the profession is in a "state of crisis" because the public doesn't trust the media.  This article is a lengthy list of solid reasons...

Shock Waves From Syria

Coupled with all the non-news and what may be interpreted as silent consent of Syria's neighbor, Turkey and almost all the rest of the world, how will the government of Bashar al-Assad respond to what may have...

NY Times Study On Women 'Living Without Spouse' Included 15-Year-Olds

"This morning, NewsBusters' Mark Finkelstein reported (here) how CBS anchors yucked it up over a front-page story in today's New York Times that blared, "51% of Women Are Now Living Without Spouse." This study is nothing to laugh at. It's incredibly misleading, if not...

Malaysian newspaper gets slapped for sex story

"Malaysian government leaders have rebuked a local newspaper for publishing a frank expose of sexual attitudes among the country's youth. The Weekend Mail gave detailed descriptions of favorite sex positions from its survey -- including "spooning, galloping and tea bag...

ELECTIONEERING OF THE TIMES - NY Post

"November 4, 2006 -- Yesterday's front-page story in The New York Times about the U.S. Web archive of captured documents detailing Saddam Hussein's quest for nuclear weapons raises a lot of serious questions -...

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