2005-2014

Ren-TV anchor Olga Romanova said late Monday that she had agreed to accept an offer to host a new program on the channel, four days after security guards prevented her from going on air. She told Ekho Moskvy radio that she had received the offer in a letter Monday from Alexander Ordzhonikidze, the station's general director. "I intend to carry out the station management's orders presented in the...

Europe's love affair with the internet continues apace according to research announced on Tuesday by the European Interactive Advertising Association (EIAA). The research report demonstrates both the increasing time spent online and the increasing sophistication of internet use among European consumers. The average European internet user now spends 10 hours 15 minutes a week online compared to...

A secret memorandum leaked to a British tabloid from the office of the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has disclosed that the United States president, George Bush, once toyed with the idea of bombing the headquarters of Al Jazeera TV network in Doha. This has caused much embarrassment to both 10 Downing Street and the White House. Attempts are now afoot by Mr Blair’s office to put the lid back...

The well-publicised case of a magazine editor jailed for blasphemy could soon take a more ominous turn, with a state prosecutor threatening to press for the death penalty. Mohaqeq Nasab, editor of Huquq-e-Zan, Women’s Rights, was found guilty of blasphemy on October 22, and sentenced to two years at hard labour. Nasab’s offence included publishing articles that, among other things, questioned the...

"John Seigenthaler Sr. was the assistant to Attorney General Robert Kennedy in the early 1960's. For a brief time, he was thought to have been directly involved in the Kennedy assassinations of both John, and his brother, Bobby. Nothing was ever proven." – Wikipedia This is a highly personal story about Internet character assassination. It could be your story. I have no idea whose sick mind...

Bob Woodward probably hoped that the long holiday weekend would break the momentum of an uproar that suddenly confronted him midway through November. But three days after Thanksgiving, on NBC's "Meet the Press," a question about the famed Washington Post reporter provoked anything but the customary adulation. "I think none of us can really understand Bob's silence for two years about his own role...

On November 17, Britain’s Guardian newspaper ran a statement in its Corrections and Clarifications column announcing the removal from its website of an interview with Noam Chomsky. The interview, conducted by Emma Brockes, was published in the Guardian’s October 31 edition after Chomsky, a professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was voted the world’s top intellectual...

There is no denying it. Red-top tabloid newspapers have broken two very important stories in the past week. The Daily Mirror's front page claiming that Tony Blair had to talk George Bush out of bombing the Qatar headquarters of the radio station al-Jazeera was a genuine scoop. They based their expose on the supposed contents of a confidential memo of a meeting between the two leaders. Initially...

LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Tony Blair on Monday denied receiving any details of a reported U.S. proposal to bomb the Arabic news channel Al Jazeera. The Daily Mirror newspaper reported last week that a secret British government memo said Blair had talked U.S. President George W. Bush out of bombing the broadcaster's Qatar headquarters last April. The White House has dismissed the report as...

Both factions of the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (NSCN) have denied involvement in the attack on a journalist in Kohima Thursday last. An NSCN(Khaplang) leader said in Kohima, "The NSCN(K) gives due respect to the Fourth Estate'' and contended that it had never "committed terrorist acts on innocent people". ASSURANCE: Nagaland chief minister Neiphiu Rio said the attack on Rutsa was '...