China's Bo Xilai scandal revs up news media run by exiles
Los Angeles Times
But hardly a word of it appears in the mainland news media, forcing political junkies to look offshore for their fix, either watching with satellite dishes or surfing the Internet with virtual private networks to get around the government firewall.

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News media derivatives: May 17
Washington Post (blog)
By Erik Wemple In case you missed it — Arnaud de Borchgrave, longtime columnist for the Washington Times and UPI, has written some stuff that bears resemblances to previously written stuff. Have a look. *Joe Pompeo of Capital reports that the New ...

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News roundup: Obama, Romney agree: hate the news media
Salt Lake Tribune (blog)
President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney share at least one thing: a disdain for the news media. Both presidential candidates (including the president himself) like to blame the media -- with Romney known as a media outsider and ...
Obama campaign expected to spend less than $100000 on Bain attack adCNN (blog)

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Did the News Media Drive the Gay Marriage Debate?
New York Times (blog)
By BRIAN STELTER On the Fox News Channel on Wednesday afternoon, the anchor Shepard Smith played a clip of President Obama expressing his support for gay marriage, then delivered this stinging assessment: “The President of the United States, ...
How President Obama played the press perfectly on gay marriage announcementFox News
Flip-flop-flip-flop. Obama's gay-marriage stance isn't an evolution.MiamiHerald.com (blog)
Following Seattle, Obama to attend glamorous George Clooney fundraiserKING5.com
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Pakistan Blocks Twitter Over Cartoon Contest
New York Times
A government spokesman was quoted by local news media as saying that the government had been in talks with Twitter to remove “objectionable” material but that there had been no results. “The material was promoting a competition on Facebook to post ...

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Morning News, Media General papers sold to Berkshire Hathaway
SCNow
Media General, Inc. (NYSE: MEG) today announced that it has signed agreements with Berkshire Hathaway, Inc., (NYSE: BRK.A and BRK.B) for the purchase of newspapers and new financing. A subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, BH Media Group, will purchase all ...

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Good news: 'Media sector is a sunrise sector'
Churumuri
What was bazaar speculation for quite a while is now a matter of record. Aroon Purie, the bossman of the India Today group, has divested over a quarter of his holding in Living Media India Limited, in favour of one of India's richest men, ...

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9 killed in car bomb blast
Detroit Free Press
A car bomb tore through the parking lot of a military compound in a city in eastern Syria on Saturday, killing nine people in the latest blast targeting security installations, the country's government-run news media reported. The blast in Deir al-Zour ...

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News media faces competition by more than other news organizations
MinnPost.com (blog)
By John Reinan | 08:26 am Much has been written about the threat posed to traditional news media by competing news organizations on the Internet. But there's another side of the topic that's often overlooked. News organizations also face competition ...



A few solutions to some pressing problems
Asheville Citizen-Times
News media ask, “Which of today's problems are of greater importance?” I'm concerned about more than one. A few nights ago Ed Schultz asked on his MSNBC news program, “What are we going to do?” Some answers: The war: Bring our army home.


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