DECLERATION OF THE BRADFORD CONFERNCE TO COMMERATE THE SEVENTY FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDATION OF PROGRESSIVE WRITERS’ ASSOCIATION It is precisely seventy five years ago in London, in 1935, a number of leading Indian writers and political activists founded the Progressive Writers’ Association. The Association was launched in India in 1936 and eventually became known […]
Subpoenas Against Media Recently Top 3,000, It’s Time to Pass the Shield Bill SPJ Says
by Matthew L. Schafer Note: This report originally appeared in the media blog Lippmann Would Roll. On Tuesday Kevin Smith, president of the Society of Professional Journalists, wrote an open editorial advocating for the passage of a federal shield law that is currently sitting in the Senate. The House version of the bill, entitled the […]
Comcast Faces Endemic Customer Service Problems on the Eve of Merger Reviews
by Matthew L. Schafer This report originally appeared in the media blog Lippmann Would Roll. The review of the merger between Comcast and NBC will likely start back up tomorrow. This comes after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) stopped the half-year review on June 24 after Comcast and NBC failed to adequately answer FCC questions. […]
Is Wikipedia a Reliable Resource?
Six months from now, Wikipedia will celebrate its ten year anniversary. Before Wikipedia, most people either went to the library or collected expensive hardbound copies of the Encyclopedia Britannica. On January 15, 2001, Jimmy Walles and Larry Sanger officially launched Wikipedia. The two were working on an online encyclopedia using only expert-written articles called Nupedia, […]
SRI LANKA CHALLENGES UN/US/DELHI OVER WAR CRIMES MOVES
SRI LANKA CHALLENGES UN/US/DELHI OVER WAR CRIMES MOVES Sri Lanka’s (SL) bluff and bluster that paid lavish dividends in the past failed for the first time when the UN Secretary General Ban (with the full US support) appointed experts to his proposed panel on SL’s war crimes. Predictably the Rajapakse regime’s reaction is openly […]
SRI LANKA CHALLENGES UN/US/DELHI OVER WAR CRIMES MOVES
SRI LANKA CHALLENGES UN/US/DELHI OVER WAR CRIMES MOVES Sri Lanka’s (SL) bluff and bluster that paid lavish dividends in the past failed for the first time when the UN Secretary General Ban (with the full US support) appointed experts to his proposed panel on SL’s war crimes. Predictably the Rajapakse regime’s reaction is openly […]
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