Don’t believe everything you download “Rhino horn with wine is the alcoholic drink of millionaires,” said the vietbao.com article. Anninhthudo.com said it is “like a luxury car”. Quang Trung street in HCMC’s Go Vap District is a hot, dirty, dusty, noisy continuation of Hai Ba Trung Street, the street where Vascos is in […]
Body Imaging Business Pushes Scans Many Don’t Need – Including Me
By Marshall Allen , ProPublica The telemarketer called in February with an unusual offer: free heart scans for me and my wife, an $800 value, from a company called Heart Check America. The procedure would be “non-invasive,” he promised. No needles. “Just lie on a table and hold your breath.” The scans could identify […]
The MCLU Strikes Again….At Americans Expense
The MCLU (Mexican Civil Liberties Union) has taken to the newsprint media in order to attempt to blast a small, mostly rural town in Nebraska for having the gaul to attempt to pass city ordinances (similar to those attempted in Pennsylvania) banning both the hiring, and affording housing rentals to illegal immigrants. It appears, however, […]
The Future of Bay Area Newspapers in a Digital Age
The Seattle Post-Intellegence is a Web-only newspaper, the Christian Science Monitor is doing the same, the San Francisco Chronicle is cutting staff by as many as 150 and may be looking to its Hearst Corp. breathren in Seattle for guidance in becoming another Web-only paper, and the Rocky Mountain News in Denver has closed completely. […]
Microsoft to follow an Independent Strategy
Addressing a News Conference in Tokyo, Bill Gates told the reporters that from now on wards Microsoft would follow an independent strategy in its efforts to secure a place in the fiercely competitive search engine and aniline advertisement segments. Having not succeeded in its takeover bid of Yahoo at a price tag of 47.5 Billion […]
How Should Free Societies Pay for Their Journalism?
The question of how societies should pay for their journalism – at least to compensate professional journalists in attempts to eradicate the credibility concerns – was addressed very recently by Bill Keller, executive editor of The New York Times. He was speaking in London and said that the greatest threat that independent writers and bloggers pose […]