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21 November 2005

Journos protest Nepal Press Council chief's remarks

BUTWAL, Nov 20 - A fierce debate ensued between local journalists and a team of Press Council currently in Butwal, monitoring the code of conduct for journalists, on Sunday. Local journalists criticized the council's chairman Mathabar Singh Basnet's remark that the government was forced to introduce new media ordinance due to difficult situation in the country. Basnet in his speech had said that...

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21 November 2005

M'sia Needs To Convince NAM Members On Importance Of NNN, Says Iran

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 21 (Bernama) -- Malaysia needs to convince some of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) countries of the importance of the establishment of the NAM News Network (NNN), a unified news pool, if it wants to avoid the fate of previous initiatives, an Iranian cabinet minister said Monday. Iranian Culture and Islamic Guidance Minister Mohammad Hossein Saffar Harandi said that earlier...

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21 November 2005

NAM News Network up soon

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia will start the ball rolling on the proposed Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) News Network (NNN) by organising a workshop within the next three months. Information Ministry secretary-general Datuk Siti Balkish Mohamed Shariff said that interested NAM members would be invited for the discussions to find ways to establish a practical and workable mechanism for the NNN. "The most...

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21 November 2005

Dining with the Establishment: Woodward's Weakness

Whatever Bob Woodward did or didn't do, should or shouldn't have done, knew or didn't know, several lessons can be drawn from this latest of media scandals-and none of them speak well of journalism as it is practiced at elite levels today. For one thing, the very definition of an "investigative reporter," as Woodward is labeled these days ad nauseum, is a pretty elastic one. Meeting a source in a...

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21 November 2005

The fall of Bob Woodward

AT WHAT point does naiveté become something to be ashamed of? The revelation last week that Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward abetted the Bush administration's program of lies and character assassination left you feeling as if you, too, have been a coconspirator in the sleaze. Not that you were under any illusion about the turn Woodward's career took when he became a justifying megaphone for '...

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21 November 2005

Washington Post rebukes Bob Woodward

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- The Washington Post's ombudsman rebuked journalist Bob Woodward on Sunday for withholding what he knew about the CIA leak probe from his editor and for making public statements that were dismissive of the investigation without disclosing his own involvement. One of the best-known investigative reporters in the United States, Woodward revealed last week that he testified...

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21 November 2005

Search engine use shoots up, close to email as primary Net application

Search engines have become an increasingly important part of the online experience of American Internet users. The most recent findings from Pew Internet & American Life tracking surveys and consumer behaviour trends from the comScore Media Metrix consumer panel show that about 60 million American adults are using search engines on a typical day. These results from September 2005 represent a sharp...

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20 November 2005

Corporate raider readying to oust Time Warner CEO

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn is bracing up for a battle meant to oust Time Warner chief executive Richard Parsons. Icahn is scripting a proxy fight at Time Warner Inc's annual meeting next year to replace "some or all" of the directors and to seek the "ouster" of Parsons, according to a BusinessWeek report. ON THE FRONT FOOT: Carl Icahn Icahn, better known as a corporate raider turned...

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20 November 2005

Use the Internet, don't fear it, newspaper editors told

ATHENS (AFP) - Newspaper editors and staff from over 60 countries met in Athens to explore ways of using the Internet and innovative tactics in their quest to lure back readers. Daily papers worldwide face growing competition from broadcast and online media. "These are very tough times for newspapers across the world," Mike Smith, managing director of the Media Management Center at Northwestern...

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20 November 2005

Proposed NAM News Network Achievable, Says Oman

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 20 (Bernama) -- The Gulf country Oman is so impressed with Malaysia's proposed Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) News Network (NNN) that it sees no reason why it cannot become a reality. Oman's head to the Senior Officials Meeting (SOM) of the Sixth Conference of the Ministers of Information of Non-Aligned Countries (Cominac VI) Osama Alharemi said that Malaysia's presentation of the...

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