Namaste! Mornings have started to get misty, at least in the off city limits where I stay. The thick mist that sometimes reduces visibility to within fifty meters could be due to the presence of the nearby lake, the extra cover of trees or maybe due to the expanse of open spaces. Walks are a delightful experience. No traffic and few people – […]
Backstage at the Dem debate
On October 30, 2007, GroundReport traveled to Philadelphia to film the Democratic debate at Drexel University. The focus was not the debate—it was to cover the coverage. From the Spin Room to the Campaign Visibility Area, from bomb-sniffing dogs to satellite trucks, GroundReport streamed live to lift the veil on big media and the 2008 […]
World freshwater running out as population grows
When I was in high school, I worked for a local environmental advocacy group – canvassing throughout a warren of suburban neighborhoods on the issue of polluted underground aquifers that ran below those neighborhoods. While it was the kind of door to door work usually relegated to impressionable high-energy high school kids, our tight band […]
Wanna experience desert rally: Hit Gurgaon roads
Abhishek Behl, www.merinews.com Poor infrastructure is hampering the growth of Gurgaon often referred to as cyber city in India. While the city may be on the fast lane on the information highway but in real world growth is suffering due to a medieval road network. If you ever wanted […]
The Hidden Baggage of Blogs
haven’t actually read up on the history of blogging but I seem to recall that they began as online personal diaries. People after all having been keeping diaries and journals for centuries; some times filled with trivia; some times not, as perhaps the diaries of Ben Johnson. So when the world got digitized many of […]
Michael Eisner criticizes Arianna Huffington at media conference
<p>August 13, 2007 (GROUNDREPORT) Aspen, Colorado — Michael Eisner criticized Arianna Huffington today during a media conference in Aspen, denouncing the <a href="http://huffingtonpost.com"><em>Huffington Post</em></a>’s lack of payment for contributing bloggers. Eisner, a former head of ABC, Paramount and Disney, said that failing to pay contributors forced them to work "on the assembly line" to pay […]